36 Chambers with Kim Jong Ill

Maybe this is harsh but why were these journalist so close to North Korea's border, also why were the three hikers hiking so close to the border of Iran. This is not a game people !
In the case of the journalist, if one of the ladies sisters wasn't the more famous journalist Lisa Ling, would these ladies be home right now. If they weren't working for one of Al Gores' ventures - Current TV, would they have been able to reach out to former President Bill Clinton.

From reports that I've read, these young ladies never saw the inside of a jail cell. They were in a North Korean 'condo' the whole time. They were able to talk to their families 'a lot' and were served three hot meals a day. So lets hold up on the sympathy for these two. As is the American way they'll get back home, write a book, sell the movie rights, go on a book tour, and forever be looked at as some sort of North Korean experts. They'll probably graduate from cable channel obscurity to be on-air personalities for Network TV. Really folks where is the downside.

On top of that, they've been eating bad North Korean food and have probably shed a few unwanted pounds.

What sucks about the whole thing is that the Obama Administration has to spend political capital and answer questions about who sent Clinton, who paid for it and why are we rewarding a dictator like Kim Jong Ill, with the presence of someone like former President Bill Clinton.

Before all of this, the Obama administration was trying to isolate Mr. Jong Ill and his country because of the Nuclear testing his they had been conducting off the coast of Japan and South Korea. They had even threatened to launch towards Hawaii and Alaska. But now it looks like their rewarding bad behavior. And right on cue the Rethuglican's have pounced on Clinton's trip as bad diplomacy that sends the wrong message to the world and North Korea. "We are suppose to be mad at them, didn't Obama didn't get memo".

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