Comments on: Let My People Go

By: screening for women

screening for women — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:11:27 +0000

screening for women…

Whoever would have thought of that? I’m shocked!…

By: Yaqi

Yaqi — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:13:55 +0000

Euna and Laura are hot

By: James

James — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:26:43 +0000

Woot! Diplomacy works!

(PS: Called it!)

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:48:35 +0000

I’m excited that they are being released! Thanks, Bill!

By: Asian-American identity « Emma Leigh Waldron

Asian-American identity « Emma Leigh Waldron — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:09:59 +0000

[...] the point is, the very next day I saw Margaret Cho’s blog post about journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.Â Cho also invokes the issue of race here, asserting [...]

By: CES

CES — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:01:42 +0000

Many of the “experts” on North Korea think that Ling and Lee will be sent to a less harsh labor camp. They are valuable assets to the government and you don’t want two American women to die under terrible conditions in a labor camp. They will get the Four Seasons hotel version of a North Korean concentration camp.

I worry more about Lee than Ling. Ling’s family has roots in Taiwan and she doesn’t speak Korean. However, Lee is Korean-American with a decent understanding of the Korean language. I wonder if the North Korean Gestapo will inflict more psychological and possible physical harm upon her. It must be offensive to North Korean officials that someone of Korean heritage would be a citizen of the USA. On the other hand, they might think that Lee was brainwashed by white American imperialists. Forced to marry a white American male and God knows what else. I wonder if the North Korean propaganda hacks would attempt to free her from the American “oppressors”. I just hope the two of them are treated fairly and they will be released together very soon.

By: the king is naked

the king is naked — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:43:39 +0000

besides as Jessica ceballos and Elaine mentioned, if only our hands were clean. Did we do anything when we learned our own government is torturing prisoners!? Let’s start cleaning our own backyard first. Before you start pointing fingers…make sure you hands are clean.

By: the king is naked

the king is naked — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:56:20 +0000

I understand it’s a very upsetting situation and the sentence is really too harsh for that (entering to a country illegally) kind of violence of laws. My sympathy is with them.
I also understand that North Korea is an evil country, had to be stopped from their actions that affect other nations.

However, let’s not lost our senses. Every country has its laws and order. People cannot be treated where they come from before local courts. I don’t think N. Korea thinks them as their own, they think that N. Korea is N. Korea and it has its laws whether we, Americans, like it or not. As Americans we cannot think that we can do whatever we want and wouldn’t face the consequences. Unfortunately, entering to North Korea illegally (if they did. did they? No one really mentions if they did or not) was a big risk which Euna Lee and Laura Ling took and they were unlucky.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:54:30 +0000

It didnt get big media exposure because the families wanted it that way. they thought it might make things worse. I don’t blame them. it wasn’t until Lisa Ling got a call from her sister and the trial approached that they decided to go on a media campaign.

By: Jasmine Reynolds

Jasmine Reynolds — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:20:33 +0000

I’ll admit that I don’t watch the news that much but the big things I usually catch. So when I just heard about this story today, I thought it was because I wasn’t attentive enough but according to my mother, who watches the news everyday, said she hadn’t heard about it until recently either. How is it that something like this could be kept under raps for so long? Especially for me. Our news anchor is actually related to Ling.

What I am trying to understand is the harshness of the punishment.