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Journalists Admit Entering N. Korea


The New York Times


A state-run news agency reports the women "admitted and accepted" the sentences handed down on June 8th.
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North Korea’s state-run news agency says that two American journalists sentenced last week to 12 years of labor admitted they crossed into the country illegally.
The Korean Central News Agency said in a detailed report Tuesday that Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Current TV were arrested after crossing the Tumen River from China into North Korea.

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