Chiswickite - formerly The Croydonian

"at dawn of March 17 unidentified two men and two women covertly crossed the River Tuman to intrude into its bank of the DPRK side in Kangan-ri, Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province. The two women were arrested on the spot...The investigation proved that the intruders crossed the border and committed the crime for the purpose of making animation files to be used for an anti-DPRK smear campaign over its human rights issue...At the trial the accused admitted that what they did were criminal acts committed, prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of the DPRK by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it....In the name of the DPRK the Central Court determined ten years of hard labour...The prison term is counted from March 22, 2009, when the accused were detained and it was pronounced that the judgment is unappealable.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il today met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his party on a visit to the DPRK. Bill Clinton courteously conveyed a verbal message of U.S. President Barack Obama to Kim Jong Il.

..."Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it. Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view...Kim Jong Il issued an order of the Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission on granting a special pardon to the two American journalists...The measure taken to release the American journalists is a manifestation of the DPRK's humanitarian and peace loving policy".