Laura Ling's Captivity in North Korea
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2010
- For nearly five months, journalist Laura Ling was imprisoned in North Korea and spoke with CBS News Jan Crawford about her captivity and her sister, Lisa's fight for her freedom detailed in their new book, "Somewhere Inside..."
I thank God she is alive and back in the US now. I wish her well.
God has nothing to do with it.
She was arrested trying to trafficking children hence why bill Clinton got involved
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She's such an amazing and brave woman. I can't imagine being contained in a North Korean prison for that long! Props to her!
The reporter looks like Pam from the office. A touching story.
You're so right! 🤣🤣
I grew up watching Lisa Ling in highschool. She did some kind of news back in the mid 90’s and I remember watching her every day in class.
Channel One News!!!!
5:33 Awkward! This lady interviewing is horrible. Should've had someone else interview Laura Ling.
I know this came out almost 20 years ago, but God bless you and your family. I hope nothing but the best for you.
Q: Well, Laura, anything positive you can take from this experience?
A: Great question, Jan, and yes. I lost SOOO much weight on the Great Leader's Kim-Fast diet
I just love Lisa Ling. She is such a power house. Glad that she left that stupid show 'The View'.
hold up, did Jen say 12 year long prison sentence at beginning.
Samantha Grace They sentenced her 12 years , but she was released after 2 months
Matthew Alvis yep after bill Clinton got her out. Look at the creepy pizza picture with this journalist and a dprk child she wanted to abduct
Yup she said that.
@@matthewalvis9729 More like 5 mpnth
@@JohnKobaRuddy which creepy picture?
The whole point of journalism is to document what is going on in a given place at a given time, to shine a light on what's wrong and right in the world, and to give a voice to people who don't have one. Personally, I think it was pretty courageous of them to it.
Yes finally a good comment. It's about time someone thinks the same! Even if it was said 5 years ago, haha.
And I've not read the book, but anyone would know it is not about profit. She is a journalist. When you're a journalist you write books sometimes. She went there as a journalist, and did her job by coming back and writing about her experiences. And not only that, but she is a professional, and therefore is considerate and intelligent, and surely would not "expose safe houses" in ways that would make them traceable.
Why is the interviewer cutting her all the time
IF YOU KNEW WHERE YOU WERE, THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE NEVER EVEN STEPPED ON THAT SOIL
There should be a movie sequel based on her life. "Oh Sister, where art thou?"
damn shes so strong..♥
Yeah....she never attempted to do that shit again.
What language did she used in communicating w the female guards?
I feel sorry for those guards who were assigned to her. I can bet they and their families got into an immense amount of trouble because of her talking about her bonding with them.
I was actually thinking about that too. However Laura made sure to point out that the whole time the guards remained very loyal to their leader and duties.
I was actually thinking about that too. However Laura made sure to point out that the whole time the guards remained very loyal to their leader and duties.
@@toniroberts8117 bra1nwashing. That's the way they stay loyal.
I'm a North American, U.S.A., New York State, Schenectady County, speaking on behalf of fellow Americans and others I'm sure, about 'minding our own business'- a great American tradition.
So their sentence was suppose to end this year?
I didn't realise it was her who this happened to. I love Current Tv.... very informative and I believe America would be a much better place if more people would watch it.
Great book
Do they broadcast live hockey games in North Korea?
An excellent question
Laura and Euna, I will never forget you.
@mikespl400 she was there for 5 monthes, do you think she couldntve learned?
Her motives sound VERY suspicious. We're not being told the whole story here. She says she crossed the river from China to get into North Korea, and was trying to find some safe-houses. It sounds like she bribed her guide and was trying to sneak in to film things she wasn't supposed to, or find the notorious labor camps. She's blaming it all on the guide, whose probably dead now or imprisoned thanks to her.
If a foreigner tried something like what she did in the US, or any other country they'd probably be detained too.
She's lucky she had the help of political connections and media.
she didnt say she was looking for safehouses, just that there were safehouses there. it seemed like the guide thought it was reasonably safe, but unfortunately it wasnt. and you think she was seriously trying to get footage of a labor camp?
Rayna Lovely She also said that they were destroying evidence IN North Korea. Seems hard with the way she say she got caught. More than that is hard to say. And I thought she meant well. Glad we have those individuals in society
Speculation now says that the Two women were involved in Child Trafficking, not trying to stop it !
And mysteriously, look who her sister is.....
Rayna Lovely omg you know nothing about North Korea or what these guides do! Check facts before you state things you know nothing about! This is not about just being detained!
??? What is this? Are you asking yourself questions and then answering them? It couldn't be a reply to me, because its way off topic...
She was doing her job as a journalist!!! Without people uncovering the truth the millions of suffering North Koreans will never be liberated. What these women did was very brave.
Ling is awesome! :)
@historyman9 Yeah! I watched Lisa's documentary for the first time last night. I believe very much so that the translator saved her by pretending not to understand the question. She asked "if there was anything Kim Jong Il couldn't do," and then rephrased it to "If Kim Jong Il could do any wrong". Such an interesting documentary though right?
I don't understand this comment... The reason we "already know all we need to know about that hellish place" is because of journalists courageously investigating it. Laura Ling, Euna Lee and all other reporters who investigate these places should be thanked, not criticized.
and now she's writing a book? WHAT A HUGE SURPRISE.
@haroldgar12 Lisa Ling is a journalist not an actress.
She does not even seem affected at all. She sounds like a robot. Yoga poses? This whole thing sounds suspicious.
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You forgot to mention the bit where she broke the law of the land.
Typical entitlement. Smh.
I don't understand these people. If you travel to a place like NK, you NEVER leave your chaperones. You can't just go film a documentary without permission.
WOW she looks like my music teacher!
So she did do something technically illegal..
reporter looks like pam from the office
yup. AN ACTRESS.... This woman seems robotic.
Brutal treatment... Geez
@cruzeiroreal2750 i thought that was lisa ling but i think i know what you mean...that was hard to watch. it was evident that she was asking the wrong questions and im a little surprised they let her do everything she did
Still here?
Watch 'Seoul Train' (netflix has it) about the underground railroad from N Korea
@MyLesPaulcopy I think she went there to shoot a documentary with some doctor.
So did Yuna Lee get out too?
@mikespl400 ...... how do u think? english...
It's never too late, the Italians stopped fighting each other (32 different dialects), the Vietnamese stopped fighting each other, East & West Germany united, there is always hope.
@mikespl400 She speaks South Korean, which is similar but also different from North Korean.
These journalists need to stay the hell away from these places! They're asking for trouble.
They probably go where they’re told to go.
Good to see there are real journalists still out there
This is not totally honest. If we are to be fair, then we have to also interview people like myself who are in deep disagreement with the present direction of the United States-and much of its past. If we are to be honest and sincere, then who can deny that our own nation, the United States, treats millions of its own people very badly? Poverty and racism go on without any real hope for a huge portion of the people who live in this nation. Homeless people are totally abused, ignored and oppressed by our government, the police and by many, many ordinary citizens too. The list of injustices that occur in this country would fill volumes and yet remain incomplete.
How can we remain so blind to condemn North Korea as a totalitarian state yet remain so silent and passive about the vast control of our lives exerted by the corporations that hire us and try to control our lives with their slick advertising, their smooth and "friendly" facade and the not so subtle power of the police? To continue to criticize only China, Russia, Cuba, North Korea and Iran while so passively accepting the harm done to us by the economic and spiritual injustices of our greedy and depersonalized corporate structure tells so much about what is missing in this country: Our freedom and dignity are missing because we have lived for so many decades under the influence and domination of super-wealthy business people that we have forgotten what real freedom feels like.
It is time for a genuine awakening-especially focused on our own lives here in the United States,
Rama Kumar
@brianpez I agree, if we go to war it's SK Fault with an uppercase F!
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@reymatt76 dude dont throw the haha at the end. makes the previous rant seem.. ehh.. not as imposing as it could be.
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@cruzeiroreal2750 laura wasn't the one who asked if kim jong il could do any wrong it was her sister lisa.
Assuming there is much of a distinction anymore.
@otezshaw Uh, being knocked out from being struck in the head is not "Hollywood."
I can't believe that someone who is smart enough to type would actually say that.
She is very lucky!
When i want to visit NK i use google earf. I wonder when they are going to do a streets view of that country.
@mikespl400 theres more ways of communicating then vocal communication.
If it wasn't for some stories journalists cover, the free world would not know about what goes on in countries such as North Korea.
Peggy Hill what you think you know about the place is a lie. Like the decades of lies about communist states with extremely thin evidence yet many people believe the laughable 100 million deaths shite
she's just trying to cause controversy to further her own fame
@gatorneck305
I doubt it even crossed her or the editors' minds... =\
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@mmiguy2306 well...we did rescue her.
Good thing she outed those guards, and said that they were nice to here.
I wonder how many years of hard labor they got?
Besides that, this is why you should not allow governments to run your lives kids. It never turns out quite the way you think it will--It almost always ends in a violent, police state.
Am I the only person who is wondering what happened to the other woman who was with her in the beginning. They never mention if that woman made it out or not and this really unnerves me. I'd hate to think that only one of them was set free while the other was left and taken to only God knows where in North Korea.
animelover1290 she's okay! She did a TED talk
Yea she made it out with Lisa! Look up "TED talk Euna Lee" and it's the first one - Euna talks about what it was like but still portrays a strong message. 😊
reunifying... its too late. but maybe in 100 years or so. economically, and socially/culturally its difficult, nearly impossible at the moment. it's unrealistic as sad it is for me to say.
The tone of sanction here is quite remarkable.
She stepped on foreign soil and then turned around and got the hell out.
Just imagine for a moment, a Mexican national performing the exact same exercise on American soil.
And then compare the difference in outcome. Hypocrisy reigns supreme, and especially when the sentence has already been passed.
Vietnam managed to reunite. Korea never did. And because of that, more than any other single reason, some people never lose their desire to want to know what's going on on the other side (whether they're Korean or not.)
I like to think of it this way. Pol Pot had a run of a few years in Cambodia. And then the Viet Cong came in and hustled his ass out of there. (Because he pissed them off, and because the Cambodians were too starved and wretched to do that job themselves).
North Korea has been like a batshit crazy circus show for 70 long years, with no Viet Cong coming to do them any favors.
For nice light and real enjoyable reading, one simply must devour an eyewitness account of what it's like to muster up forced sorrow of the acutely scrutinized kind.
@sweetrem2k , research Camp 22, North Korea... You'll ve shocked.
@90rubio
It's the same technique the US Border Patrol used when they caught you jumping that fence into Texas.
@skyferret1- Another fact that surely has something to do with the questions those KPA soldiers asked Ling is this: no matter how much propaganda you print, televise, and put on radio, no matter how much you lie and conceal, you cannot alter human genetics. Humans are naturally curious, and that means that even a North Korean raised on misinformation will start to wonder sooner or later. And thus the questions, from soldiers of the KPA no less.
well, if you actually watch the video before posting a comment, that would give you the answer.
@sweetrem2k , research Camp 22, North Korea... You'll be shocked.
@saberallen5 You can actually travel to North Korea, I think it is a 5 day trip 1000$ from bejing, airfare from beijing, all hotel, tourist attractions, restaurant bills, etc all paid. You travel with a guide and your whole trip is planned out.
Well guess i have to change my vacation plans...dangit
Yes, there was a famine in the 90's when trade with the USSR and eastbloc collapsed and quite a number of people died, although the population of North Korea did not decrease. It went from 20,1 million in 1990 to 22 million in 1996, so the meager and isolated economy can sustain life and growth.
But the statistics from WLE are from 2010, and while i don't doubt the DPRK government tries to make it seem slightly better, there are dozens more countries, with a lot more deaths of starvation.
@19thSFGA- Yeah, they're real heroes for that. It's a damned shame.
I didnt mean to say its too late. but rather that it's a lot of "hassle" and not all koreans feel the same about it, or even care for the idea. Its been50+ years... not only that but SK thrived and got back on our feet. NK went the completely opposite direction... so it makes the situation worse to fix. :/
She didn't voluntarily expose anything. AS you heard, they did what they could. She did what she could. Why not benefit from her experience? its hers. She was there for a worthy cause. Its better than sitting behind a screen and criticizing people for things out of their control, don't you think?
@SanguineBullet667 Wow! All I can say is wow!
So, do you agree with statist policies and totalitarian rule?
@reymatt76 cool my dad served in the korean war in its good he did but still i just didnt like how you phrased that comment with canada i know they did flee to canada bt i was just saying that if a war did break unlike vietnam going to canada wouldnt stop you from fighting since more than likely canada would join the war just like they always do
Yeah.there's hope. But there are so many generational difference in SK and in NKtoo. My generation didnt grow up with the hardships of war.. or the after effects, so we're a little more on the spoiled side. Our grandparents remember the tough times, they went through a lot of emotional barriers of losing family, etc. In north korea, there are people who remember how good it used to be, the newer generation don't know anything but what they feel, experience and what they are told.
Nothing lasts forever, eventually leadership will change or be overthrown by the military, and tensions will ease in the North; Korea went through much suffering, not only the 'Korean War', but WWII and the Japanese occupation. Hope and always pray for peace and unity, we're all God's children. Peace+
True.
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The previous posts that accuse Ms. Ling as a liar are just plain malicious. Her story sheds light on the plight of South Koreans: the psychological and most likely physical that their own government has inflicted on them. Ms. Ling's book has benefited from the publicity of her incident, and has no doubt sold many books as a result. But perhaps her notoriety can shed some light onto the many pressing issues that the North Koreans face.
She's trying too hard to be like her sister.
The North Korean fishermen all wanted to return to North Korea.
Realizing this is not good for South Korea image, the South Korean millitary seperated 4 out of 31 and annouced those 4 want to stay in South Korea.
North Korea kept demaning to return those 4 because they have families in North Korea. South Korea flatly rejected everything including letters from family members. Those 4 was never even broadcasted in South Korean TV.
@skyferret1- Wow. I don't see comments this intelligent on YT often.
Well, anyway. I find it fascinating whenever indications are found that people in North Korea, especially soldiers, are similar to people elsewhere. But this shouldn't be a surprise in some ways. Many people escape North Korea each year, and it's not like they're able to watch the BBC or anything. So, somehow, the average North Korean eventually learns that life elsewhere is different.
@ejr23 justice is justice my comrade
You know sometimes I don't feel sorry for these journalists. They tread on such dangerous territory and risk all for the sake of selling a story. Do I wish journalists to be captive in places like Iran, Lybia, North Korea and other failed states? Of course not. However its alien to me to play with fire like that for the sake of impartial reporting. Journalists should be ware.
Iran is not failed. More like syria
+CerealKillerOats Iran is not a failed state yes. Syria is. Libya is. Most of the middle east is.
Because of ISIS and Western Intervention yes.
+Paul Daluz Does Iran have a stable government? Yes. Can it secure it's own borders? Yes. Iran is not a failed state.
Ben Albeyta read my earlier post. I never said Iran was a failed state.
Please provide a source that North Korea is ranked 80th on best fed nations.
The UN food program is constantly in North Korea monitoring for famine like conditions that have plagued the country.
OK, so now she's gonna milk her release to the end, it's not all that serious.
"Don't worry sugar, daddy's on his way (wink)" - Bill Clinton
Naouta look at the pic of this woman eating a pizza slight in a bizarre way with a young Korean child she tried to abduct
@nioor --oh is that right, then whos got the biggest?
7:28 is a valuable political lesson from Mr. Clinton.
We are all the same. We are all apart of the human race. There's a quotation that says:They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for the trade unions, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one to speak up.
@dongsoola ? Long Live N. Korea?