Laura and Euna’s summer vacation in North Korea is now online. Here is my favorite paragraph; note how the guide was dressed:
We didn’t spend more than a minute on North Korean soil before turning back, but it is a minute we deeply regret. To this day, we still don’t know if we were lured into a trap. In retrospect, the guide behaved oddly, changing our starting point on the river at the last moment and donning a Chinese police overcoat for the crossing, measures we assumed were security precautions. But it was ultimately our decision to follow him, and we continue to pay for that decision today with dark memories of our captivity.
In the early days of our confinement, before we were taken to Pyongyang, we were left for a very brief time with our belongings. With guards right outside the room, we furtively destroyed evidence in our possession by swallowing notes and damaging videotapes.
My six-year-old students can spin more convincing stories than this LAT tale, whose genre I would classify as a legend: part truth, part fiction.
Laura Ling is proving that she has the journalistic integrity of Connie Chung. Nuff said.
Laura and Euna’s summer vacation in North Korea is now online. Here is my favorite paragraph; note how the guide was dressed:
We didn’t spend more than a minute on North Korean soil before turning back, but it is a minute we deeply regret. To this day, we still don’t know if we were lured into a trap. In retrospect, the guide behaved oddly, changing our starting point on the river at the last moment and donning a Chinese police overcoat for the crossing, measures we assumed were security precautions. But it was ultimately our decision to follow him, and we continue to pay for that decision today with dark memories of our captivity.
http://current.com/sl/laura_ling.htm
This whopper was my favorite:
In the early days of our confinement, before we were taken to Pyongyang, we were left for a very brief time with our belongings. With guards right outside the room, we furtively destroyed evidence in our possession by swallowing notes and damaging videotapes.
My six-year-old students can spin more convincing stories than this LAT tale, whose genre I would classify as a legend: part truth, part fiction.
Laura Ling is proving that she has the journalistic integrity of Connie Chung. Nuff said.