Panel participants highlight challenges of reporting on closed society
In a discussion at the IPI’s World Congress, three journalists each provided different explanations of the same event, showing how information from North Korea is often tangential and unverifiable, and how difficult it is to find out what is actually going on.
RSF calls for greater support for exiled journalists as director of Free North Korea Radio wins award
The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy said Kim Seong-Min was being awarded the prize for his “courageous defiance” of the North Korean regime.
Kim Jong-il orders release of U.S. journalists
CPJ welcomes media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pardoned and ordered the release of imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
Government should grant amnesty to Ling and Lee, says CPJ
North Korea should grant amnesty to U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have now been jailed four months, CPJ said.
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling sentenced to 12 years of hard labour
The Central Court of the DPRK found the two San Francisco-based Current TV journalists guilty of entering the country illegally and carrying out “hostile acts” on March 17.
Forty IFEX members appeal for diplomatic support in detained journalists’ case
Free expression advocates from around the world gathered this week in Oslo, Norway, at the IFEX General Meeting. Forty IFEX members signed on to a letter calling on the international community to press for the release of journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
Families of journalists Ling, Lee urge talks to resolve detentions
CPJ calls on all parties to pursue diplomatic efforts to gain the release of detained U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who are facing trial in North Korea this week.
North Korea will try American journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) – New York, April 24, 2009 – The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today after North Korea announced that it would try American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee on unspecified criminal charges, according to international news reports. The Associated Press reported that a dispatch from the country said the pair would be […]
Two US journalists could face up to 10 years in labour camp if convicted of “illegal entry” and perpetrating “hostile acts”
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 April 2009 IFJ media release: North Korea Must Release Detained Journalists, Says IFJ The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins international calls for the immediate release of two American journalists currently detained in North Korea. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters with San Francisco-based Current TV, were arrested […]
American cameraman Mitch Koss released; RSF and the International Women’s Media Foundation launch joint petition calling for the release of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders and the International Women’s Media Foundation (http:// www.iwmf.org ) have launched a joint petition calling for the immediate and unconditional release of reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have now been held in North Korea for an entire week. “Laura Ling and Euna Lee were taken into custody on […]
U.S. journalists Laura Ling, Euna Lee and local guide reportedly detained by North Korean border guards
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Reports say North Korea has detained U.S. journalists New York, March 19, 2009 – Diplomats in China, North Korea, and the United States should cooperate to ensure the safe release of two journalists and a guide reportedly detained by North Korea while working near the country’s […]
World Report 2009: North Korea
World Report 2009: North Korea
No information on army colonel arrested more than two years ago for filming execution
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls on the North Korean authorities to release information about the fate of Col. Kim Sung Chul, an army officer who has been held since October 2006 when he was identified as the person who clandestinely filmed the video of a public execution that was shown on Japan’s Asahi TV. […]
Annual Report 2008: North Korea
Annual Report 2008: North Korea
World Report 2008: North Korea
World Report 2008: North Korea
Freedom of the Press 2007: North Korea
Freedom of the Press 2007: North Korea