North Korean Journalists in PrisonBy Ashley Gutierrez
As a student journalist, for me this is both terrifying and appalling. The US administration must insist on Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s release from prison and North Korea.
Arguments have countered that Ling and Lee deserve this - that it is the price they should pay for going after a story that they wanted for fame, that they should have known what they were getting themselves into. Not all journalists are in the field for fame. Journalists put themselves at risk for stories all the time to allow us, the public, to learn the truth. It is our right to know, and it is their right to write- to speak.
North Korea must release these journalists on humanitarian grounds.
