The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off today in stunning fashion with Mexico taking on hosts South Africa at Soccer City, Johannesburg. As the top football teams from around the world descend on South Africa, anticipation is high for the first ever World Cup on African soil. The Far East is well represented in the competition, with South Korea, Japan, and North Korea representing the Asia continent. Keep it here at channelAPA.com for weekly updates as those three teams attempt to shock the...Read Full Story
Two American Current TV Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the news that sentenced to 12 years hard in a North Korean labor prison camp on Monday. This news deeply secretive North Korea does not publish any details about the labor camps. The U.S. state department estimates that 150,000-200,000 prisoners are detained in the Labor camps located in valleys in remote mountainous areas of the and central and northern part of North Korea. Euna Lee (left) & Laura Ling (right) The Central Court of...Read Full Story
US man sentenced to hard labour in North Korea
Aijalon Mahli Gomes reportedly admitted his wrongdoing in court
North Korea has sentenced a US citizen to eight years’ hard labour for illegally entering the country, state news agency KCNA has said.
The man, named as 30-year-old Aijalon Mahli Gomes, from Boston, admitted his wrongdoing in court, KCNA reported.
Gomes had worked as an English teacher in South Korea, and reportedly crossed the border from China on 25 January.
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DailySkew international correspondent Dennis Richardson reported live last night from the South Korea North Korea border. You can hear the audio feed here: South Korea Report . The transmission was cut off at the end, we hope Dennis is okay. In this exclusive interview with someone who was actually at Ground Zero, Tony Vahl manages to get Richardson to reveal Korean insights that the mainstream MEDIA will not report. This is one quick podcast that you do not want to miss. Do you have...Read Full Story
South Korea – North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor for crossing into its territory, intensifying the reclusive nation’s confrontation with the United States.
The incident transpired from former Vice President Al Gore’s San Francisco-based Current TV media venture/project. The Obama administration will take action and pursue.
“All possible channels” to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee,
North Korea is seeking to draw...Read Full Story
On the December 20th edition of “The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur” on Current TV, former Vanguard correspondent Laura Ling and producer Euna Lee, who were arrested and held for five months in North Korea in 2009 (they were released following a ...
Journalist Laura Ling in town for Red Cross fundraiserSun-SentinelBy Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel She's the headline speaker at a "Women in Power" luncheon at noon Friday to benefit the Broward County chapter of the American Red Cross. Ling, the host of E! Investigates, previously reported for Current TV on slave ...and more »
Book club to meet in SeoulThe Korea Herald... “Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty” by Bradley K. Martin and “Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home” by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling.
In February, 2010, the McStay family disappeared without a trace from a suburban Southern California neighborhood. For their family and friends, it was unfathomable how Joey McStay and his wife, Summer, along with their two children could simply ...
Euna Lee is a political reporter who was detained and arrested by North Korea for violating their territorial policies. Euna Lee has been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. The international community is calling for Euna Lee's release.
Laura Ling Euna Lee North Korea-It was just announced that Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee have been sentenced to 12 years in labor prison by North Korea
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to twelve years' hard labor in a North Korean labor camp earlier today. The reason for the sentencing, unusually harsh for such ...
Laura Ling, Euna Lee: North Korea Sentences U.S. Journalists to ... - For two families praying for the release of U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee , the news that they were ...
North Korea threatened to retaliate with "extreme" measures if the United Nations punished it for last month's nuclear test, with Washington saying it may put Pyongyang back on its list