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(Getty Images) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is heading to North Korea for negotiations to secure the freedom of two detained American journalists, a news report said Tuesday, nearly five months after they were seized on the China border. Clinton is on his way to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, where he will try to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee , South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unidentified high-level source. It was not immediately clear when Clinton was expected to arrive. The reported trip comes amid heightened tensions in the wake of North Korea's nuclear and missile tests ... Read Full Story

North Korean officials announced Monday that Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were found guilty of an unspecified "grave crime" and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in the small communist country. Euna Lee (left) and Laura Ling Ling and Lee were arrested while working on a story about North Koreans who cross the border to defect from a country that suffers from famine and severe economic problems. Currently, the United States is weighing its options in trying to get the two reporters out of North Korea. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson , who has previously negotiated for the release of ... Read Full Story

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. Bill Clinton got the job done in record time. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, pardoned two jailed American journalists, the official KCNA news agency has reported, according to Reuters. The report came after former President Bill Clinton met with the reclusive and ailing Mr. Kim in Pyongyang on Tuesday. Mr. Kim granted “a special pardon,” KCNA said in a statement. It was not clear how rapidly the two journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, might be allowed to leave the country. They were being held near Pyongyang after having been sentenced to 12 years at hard labor for entering North ... Read Full Story

Former President Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea was apparently the the result of a diplomatic effort that began as soon as the two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Current TV, were seized almost five months ago, the L.A. Times reports : Read Full Story