Welcome Home, Euna and Laura!

Melissa Hung
August 5, 2009

And here are Laura's remarks:

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We now know that negotiations between Pyongyang and the State Department began right after the two journalists were seized, and that North Korea specifically asked for Bill Clinton to be dispatched in a show of respect to them. Before sending the former president, the Obama administration spent time testing North Korea's sincerity to avoid a scenario in which Clinton might return empty-handed.

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I'll stop there. Or I'll be spending my whole day reading and posting links (and wondering what childhood deficiencies led to Kim Jong-il's bad, bratty behaviors.)

Euna and Laura are finally home! Now we can all let out a collective sigh of relief. If you have a message you'd like to share with Euna and Laura (and the whole Interwebs), Current TV, the journalists' employer, is asking people to upload video messages to them.

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Melissa Hung

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Melissa Hung is the founding editor of Hyphen. She was editor in chief for the magazine's first five years and went on to serve in many other leadership roles on the staff and board for more than a decade. A writer and freelance journalist, Melissa has written for NPR, Vogue, Pacific Standard, Longreads, and Catapult. She grew up in Texas, the eldest child of immigrants.

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Comments

Comments

Neela wrote on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 11:56am
This video keeps making me cry. Powerful stuff. Meanwhile, Yumi Wilson's blog has some interesting comments that are not very sympathetic. This is more clear with the case of the three Americans in Iran, one of whom is a correspondent for New America Media.