Witness to an enlightening talk: Seeing Laura Ling, American journalist captured and imprisoned in North Korea

I got the chance to see Laura Ling speak at the local university last night.

Laura was one of the two American journalists who were captured and detained in North Korea in March 2009, and sentenced to 12 years at one of North Korea's notorious hard labor camps. Fortunately for them, former US President Bill Clinton acted as an envoy to try to get Kim Jong-il to grant the women a pardon, which was successful. They were released on August 5, 2009, 140 days after being imprisoned.

Some of the things that really stuck out about her talk were:

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