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Source: Reuters
Former United States President Bill Clinton is on his way to
North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists
convicted by the communist state of "grave crimes", South Korea's
Yonhap news agency reports.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency says Clinton has already left for
the North but has not yet arrived in Pyongyang.
"As soon as he arrives, he will be entering negotiations with
the North for the release of the female journalists," a source is
quoted as saying.
South Korean Foreign Ministry officials have declined to comment,
saying any announcement would come from Washington or
Pyongyang.
The journalists were sentenced last month to 12 years' hard labour by the North after they were arrested at the border with China in March, accused of illegal entry and being "bent on slander".
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of US media outlet Current TV
co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, were detained when
working on a story near the border between North Korea and
China.
Ling has told her sister by telephone that she and Lee broke North
Korea's law.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the former first lady,
has urged Pyongyang to grant them amnesty.
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