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Reuters – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to try to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists convicted by the communist state of “grave crimes,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said.
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Former President Bill Clinton made a surprise trip to North Korea try to win release of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor.
The reclusive nation’s official Korean Central News Agency showed footage of Clinton landing in Pyongyang in an unmarked jet Tuesday and greeted at the airport by North Korean officials, including chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan and vice parliamentary speaker Yang Hyong Sop. He smiled and bowed as a young girl presented him with flowers.
Washington has been pressing Pyongyang for months to free Ling and Lee
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