North Korea

Update: CNN confirms that North Korea has released and pardoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
As a Fargo artist renders one local symbol of press freedom in stencils — journalist Roxana Saberi, who was accused of spying and jailed in Iran — another pair of American reporters remain imprisoned in North Korea. But there’s a [...]

As Fargo-born reporter Roxana Saberi — freed last month from an Iranian jail — receives the Medill Medal for Courage from Northwestern University, a pair of American journalists now find themselves facing a long prison sentence on similar charges: Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been tried and convicted by a [...]

But withers before tough Iraq questions from reporters

In a rare news conference Valentine’s Day morning, President Bush strongly defended the troop surge in Iraq and touted the recent multinational agreement on nuclear weapons with North Korea. While both received nearly equal time in the president’s address, questions from reporters mainly focused on Iraq.

Reporters particularly focused [...]

From The New York Times:

North Korea said Sunday night that it had set off its first nuclear test, becoming the eighth country in history, and arguably the most unstable and most dangerous, to proclaim that it has joined the club of nuclear weapons states.