# Attacks on the Press 2009: North Korea

Committee to Protect Journalists, 2010-02-16

- Address: https://cpj.org/2010/02/attacks-on-the-press-2009-north-korea/
- Kind: reference
- Last checked: 2026-09-23
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [North Korea: American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to hard labor](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2009-north-korea-ling-lee-sentenced)
- [Claim 599: Ling and Lee were charged with illegally crossing the border from China on March 17, 2009.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/599)
- [Claim 600: A North Korean court sentenced the two journalists to twenty years of reform through hard labor.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/600)
- [Claim 601: Ling and Lee returned to the United States after Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang and Kim Jong Il granted the pardons.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/601)

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