Laura Ling and Euna Lee are still in the custody of the North Korean government. Previously the only admission from the women was that they were filming a news story about human trafficking along the border between North and South Korea. The U.S Government, and Barack Obama specifically, have been relatively silent on this matter. It’s not hard to understand why, but the two innocent women caught up in the post-Cold War-Cold War may be suffering a fate they don’t deserve.

