U.S. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s Statement on North Korea capture

Current TV: “Laura Ling and Euna Lee make first statement regarding events leading to capture”
Current TV reports:
— “We were firmly back inside China when the soldiers apprehended us. Producer Mitch Koss and our guide were both able to outrun the border guards. We were not. We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on Chinese soil, but we were no match for the determined soldiers. They violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea and marched us to a nearby army base, where we were detained. Over the next 140 days, we were moved to Pyongyang, isolated from one another, repeatedly interrogated and eventually put on trial and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.”
— AP reports:
— “Freed reporters say they were dragged into NKorea”

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