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Kim Regime Copycats Tehran Regime

By John Batchelor on April 25, 2009 at 12:01 AM in Iran, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Nuclear weapons

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The Kim regime follows the stunt of its paymasters in Tehran by moving to prosecute American journalists.

You recall that last week the Tehran Twelvers condemned Roxana Saberi of New Jersey and North Dakota to eight years in Ervin Prison for spying.

Now the Kim regime will prosecute American journalists (for Al Gore’s TV network) Laura Ling and Euna Lee, whom North Korean thugs abducted on the China/North Korean border several weeks back.

Gordon Chang, Forbes.co, will report Sunday 26 on the Kim regime’s routine and predictable provocations in order to wring concessions and cash from the Six Party Talks.

This past week, the IAEA finally admitted to the obvious and declared North Korea a nuclear weapon state capable of miniaturizing warheads to mount on the recently tested Taepodong IRBM. The Kim regime and the Tehran regime move in tandem, the servant and the lord.

How soon until Ling and Lee are condemned to eight years in prison for spying? How soon until the IAEA declares that the Tehran Twelvers are a nuclear capable state with miniaturized warheads for the Shahab-3 IRBM? The Obama administration provides no fresh answers. It moves to engage the Twelvers in a sterile dialogue even as it exhales in despair at the mischief of the Kim regime. This is a freshly convenient ignorance of the evil-doing duo. The eastern Syria nuke site that Israel struck on September 6, 2007 was built by North Korea technicians and was paid for by Tehran. Berlin, Tokyo and Rome worked the same game seventy years back.

Elizabeth

Only journalists would dream of doing something so horrifically stupid as illegally entering a sovereign nation without permission and expect that a “covering the news” defense will buy them out of the resulting prison sentence. On a border between two of the most repressive nations on earth no less.

Maybe it’s wrong that Laura Ling and Euna Lee are being prosecuted, maybe the North Koreans are as bad as the Iranians, maybe the charges are trumped up and paranoid…but I doubt very much Americans would tolorate North Korean reporters ‘sneaking’ around our country like dangerous spying operatives playing chicken with our authorities for a journalistic scoop. The appeals would be longer, the conditions of imprisonment more humane and the protections for their civil rights and personal protection greater. Those two reporters knew the consequences, took a terrible chance and lost.
I’m a Linda too

When I USED to watch current (before they changed and allowed comments to be read on the air like news…during the primary…), I remembered Laura Ling. She did good field reporting, local stuff. This has been sad to learn about. I wish them luck. Now more human life another bargaining chip.
jbjd

Laura Ling’s sister Lisa is a BFF of Oprah Winfrey. Surely Oprah, BFF of BO, will entreat him to do whatever possible to recover her.
http://www.mahalo.com/Laura_Ling
http://noquarter foxyladi14

it would be nice if Oprah helped,,
Hot Librarian

More travelling fools. Abducted on “the border” ?

geez .
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