Comments on: Big Bucks for the Ex-Prisoners of Pyongyang?

By: ex

ex — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:29:35 +0000

i think if they violated Korean laws willfully they should still be in prison.

By: Gaffe Prices

Gaffe Prices — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:44:15 +0000

I have serious doubts that the book will reveal or spend any time on the amount of cash paid to write the book, nor the cash or other favours exchanged to secure their release, nor what life is like in a North Korean prison for those not so well connected and with no hope of being liberated by folks with access to the megabucks.

That’s the only thing I’m interested in reading about.

By: polkabout

polkabout — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:27:43 +0000

The only book written by these two that would be worth the ink to print,
requires it to be after serving the penalty, short in length and only addresses that one should accept the consequences of their actions to violate the law. Anything thing else only would bolster a flaw of society today, the lack of one’s responsibility.

By: Gary Ogletree

Gary Ogletree — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:57:23 +0000

I suspect the whole fiasco was planned in advance by Clinton and Gore. Nothing rings true about the episode except that Clinton and Gore get some fawning news coverage.

By: mojo

mojo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:48:44 +0000

How about a nice headline?

“Al ‘Big Green’ Gore’s Dilettante ‘Reporters’ Get Human Rights Activists Killed”

Works for me.

By: The 64,000 Won Question « Liberate North Korea

The 64,000 Won Question « Liberate North Korea — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:22:41 +0000

[...] Claudia Rosett – an in-house journalist for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies – made the rather preposterous suggestion that Ling and Lee should donate the entirety of expected [...]

By: TexRobert

TexRobert — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:29:15 +0000

Doesn’t it really depend on whether the CIA can rely on the information they were sent to get? If yes, they never be able to do another spy mission and should get compensation; if no, why reward them?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:43:58 +0000

Grossecaisse is in fact correct. While the laws and penalties of NK may be harsh and unfair they are the law of the land. If in fact they we caught in NK illegally then TBH they broke the law. Should we do the same for a US citizen who gets caught smuggling heroin into GB, France, Spain, or Australia?

We’ve rewarded stupidity again at great cost…

By: biblio44

biblio44 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:41:08 +0000

“That act has already cost Americans, by way of winning for Kim Jong Il the propaganda coup of snapping his fingers and having a former U.S. president jet in for an audience with Kim in Pyongyang.”

It doesn’t come close to the coup Kim Jong Il achieved when Bush took N. Korea off the terrorist list.

By: grossecaisse

grossecaisse — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:44:24 +0000

If they violated Korean laws willfully they should still be in prison.