US relieved as reporters back home
By Peng Kuang in Beijing Reuters and AP in US | China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-06 07:45
|
Euna Lee is embraced by her husband, Michael Saldate, and daughter, Hana Saldate, after arriving with Laura Ling and former President Bill Clinton, who negotiated the journalists' release. Inset: Ling (middle) hugs her sister, Lisa, after she and fellow journalist Lee arrived in Burbank, California, yesterday. The journalists were arrested in March after allegedly crossing into the DPRK and were freed on Tuesday. AP-Reuters |
Los Angeles: With the dramatic release yesterday of two American journalists by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) - due to the intervention of former US President Bill Clinton - experts debated how significant the event was in the long saga of US-DPRK relations.
Photo
