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Surprisingly, this story doesn’t get much play in the American media.

Perhaps it’s because of North Korea’s history of brinkmanship – saber-rattling just to get attention and turning confrontation and bluster into negotiations that reward it with food, fuel and other concessions. Maybe we all know they’re gonna be released eventually and this is just the “dear leader” acting up once again. Or maybe we just don’t know at all. Fact of the matter is, two Americans have been sentenced to 12 yrs of hard labor in North Korea – under charges of illegal entry – and Stateside, no one seems to know about it. Here’s the thing:

Most geo-political experts know that these two – Laura Ling and Euna Lee, both reporters of Current TV – are probably going to be released before their time and are being used as political pawns – political leverage for a severely backwards nation with a crazed leader to demand concessions, aid, and in the end, to turn Ling and Lee over as a gesture of goodwill. Crazy, but this is how they roll in the NK.

So what can we do other than pray and sign petitions? At best we can at least get the word out so that America knows indeed that there’s this small peninsula on the asian continent with half-a-nation bent on getting attention. That’s probably all. And in doing so, they’ve taken two Asian-Americans captive under trumped-up bogus charges.

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