Detention in Pyongyang

The leaders are all belligerant, the civilians poor, the soldiers are cold-blooded in North Korea. I'm a South Korean, although I want to unify S.K and N.K, I don't believe their fluffy bunnies. So I don't believe they're going to release them soon enough.

So Dr. Park went to Pyongyang in early July thinking that Laura and Euna were in a prison or labor camp. Meanwhile I've been in Florida since April and knew they were in a guest house and hospital. This fact has been reported in American, British, and South Korean media and confirmed on more than one occasion. Oh, I see, he is a professor at University of Georgia!
I suppose University of Florida professors are simply better informed! GO GATORS!

So Dr. Park went to Pyongyang in early July thinking that Laura and Euna were in a prison or labor camp. Meanwhile I've been in Florida since April and knew they were in a guest house and hospital. This fact has been reported in American, British, and South Korean media and confirmed on more than one occasion. Oh, I see, he is a professor at University of Georgia!
I suppose University of Florida professors are better informed! GO GATORS!

Not sure I agree with Dr. Park's optimistic statement that a bilateral U.S. channel would neutralize Ling-Lee situation.

U.S. U.N. envoy Stephen Bosworth offered to go to Pyongyang earlier this year to do just that, on condition the North Koreans did not test-fire a missile. The country's brain trust (led, most likely, by Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law Chang Song-taek) ignored the offer submitted via China talks and chose instead to test-fire a "space satellite" missile April 5th.

Later on, Bosworth renewed the offer, this time to directly discuss Ling-Lee. But according to reports, North Koreans felt he was not enough of a "high-profile envoy.