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What about Ibrahim Jassam?
Current.tv journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are about to arrive in California after spending 140 days in a North Korean prison having been convicted of committing "hostile acts". The North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned the duo after a surprise visit by Bill Clinton. You can watch...more
Journalists face North Korea trial
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two US journalists arrested on the border between North Korea and China in March, are to face trial in Pyongyang according to North Korean state media, Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch Friday that the North decided to indict...more
U.S. journalists detained in North Korea
Two U.S. journalists working on North Korean border with China near the Yalu river, on the western border, have been detained by North Korean military officials. The South Korean television station YTN quoted government officials as saying the two journalists were warned to stop filiming by North Korean guards. When...more
Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso wins Reporters Without Borders award
Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso has won Reporters Without Borders Journalist of the Year award for "helping an independent press to survive in Cuba", After daring to challenge to the state’s monopoly of news and information, González was arrested on 18 March 2003 along with 26 other dissident journalists during the...more
Pyongyang media scrum
Reuters photographer David Gray recently visited North Korea to cover the two day visit of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. His first visit to the peninsular began with a media scrum, What happened next must have been a rather unusual sight for North Korea - a media scrum. The...more
Korean variations
NBC News correspondent, Ian Williams is blogging the visit to North Korea of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, I was on a press bus, and could only guess what the orchestra was thinking, until I spoke to Michele Kim, violinist and assistant concertmaster, whose parents hail from North Korea....more
From Pyongyang with pictures
On 27th September Yannis Kontos will be at the Frontline Club showing and talking about the photographs he took during 17 days in North Korea. It's not the easiest place to get to, and certainly not a simple spot to work in. Yannis will be telling us how he did...more
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