Reporters await trial in Pyongyang
“Now, I cry less. I try very hard to think about positive things, but sometimes it is hard too,” the 32-year-old Californian wrote in a letter from Pyongyang relayed to her family two weeks ago.
Ling and colleague Euna Lee – reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, a media venture started by former vice president Al Gore – stand trial on Thursday in North Korea’s highest court, accused of entering the country illegally and engaging in “hostile acts”. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has called the charges baseless.