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Report: U.S. 'gesture' could win reporters' release

These 2 are employees of Al Gore's?

So what is Gore doing to get them freed?

Really. Is he doing anything? If so, what?

You tree huggers are fiercely adamant that Gore's a good guy, so what's he doing to fix this mess now?

I seem to remember years ago that when some Ross Perot employees were captured in a foreign country that Mr. Perot secretly organized a raid of U.S. mercenaries to free them.

I bet you a hundred bucks that Gore wouldn't touch that idea with a ten foot pole.

12 YEARS of hard labor for entering a country illegally??????

I bet THEY don't have thousands of illegals walking across their borders every day....

What a great Idea, 12 years of hard labor vs. siting on your butt for 12 years. I say we should do this here. if they come here to work, I say lets put them to work. ( 12 years of hard labor kinda work. )

These women broke the laws of North Korea and they knew that they were breaking the law so they don't deserve any sympathy or support from the U.S. since they put the U.S. government in a situation that we wouldn't be in if they had not broken the law.

If we do obtain their release from North Korea it should be on condition that they spend the duration of their sentence in a U.S. prison. We should not lose sight of the fact that they knowingly broke the law of North Korea and they didn't have any valid moral or legal reason to do so.

Their disrespect for North Korean law indicates a general lack of respect for laws in general so that would include U.S. laws. If they return to the U.S. without any sort of punishment then they will just do this sort of thing again and the next time it might be our laws that they disagree with and choose to break.

It's one thing to break immoral laws with a good reason to do so but they broke an immoral law without any good reason.