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NK Yet to Disclose Results of Trial for US Journalists

Written: 2009-06-05 07:51:32Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

NK Yet to Disclose Results of Trial for US Journalists

North Korea’s highest court put two U.S. journalists on trial Thursday --- the details of which have yet to be disclosed.

Two hours before the trial, the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency briefly announced that the North’s Central Court would be trying the two journalists at three p.m.

North Korean authorities detained Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, on March 17th while they were shooting a documentary along the North’s border with China.

Sources close to the situation say the North’s court is likely to have found the two women guilty of the charges brought against them, which include illegal entry and unspecified “hostile acts.”

Since March 17th, North Korea has allowed officials of the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, who represent U.S. interests in the North, to meet with the two Americans three times. Pyongyang also allowed the journalists to talk to their families over the phone last Tuesday, or one day after it conducted its second nuclear test.

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