North Korea will put two detained American journalists on trial in early June.

The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency said the communist country's central court will try the journalists on June fourth based on charges allegedly confirmed by a North Korean agency.

The two women, Euna Lee and Laura Ling of San Francisco-based Current TV, have been detained for nearly two months after being taken into custody by North Korea on March 17th near the Chinese-North Korean border while filming a documentary on North Korean escapees.