This has been discussed before, but calls for Al Gore to travel to Pyongyang to lobby for the release of the two American reporters is growing:

North Korea remained silent Friday about two U.S. journalists involved in a high-profile trial at Pyongyang’s top court a day earlier on charges of illegal entry and hostile acts.

Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency has yet to release the verdicts, although it sent an unusual dispatch Thursday saying the trial would begin at 3 p.m. that day at the Central Court.

Korean-American Euna Lee and Chinese-American Laura Ling, journalists from Current TV, a San Francisco-based Internet outlet co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, were detained near the North Korean border with China on March 17 while working on a story about North Korean defectors.

North Korean criminal law stipulates a maximum of 10 years in a labor camp for hostile activities or espionage. A ruling by the top court would be final, as it does not allow appeals, Seoul officials say.

U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said no observers were allowed at the trial. The Swedish ambassador in Pyongyang, Mats Foyer, who handles consular affairs involving American citizens in North Korea and met with the journalists three times each since their detention, was denied access to the trial, Kelly said.

It was not known whether the trial ended or is ongoing.

Washington did not rule out the possibility of Gore flying to North Korea to negotiate their release.

“This is such a sensitive issue, I’m just not going to go into those kinds of discussions that we may or may not have had,” Kelly said Thursday (Washington time), when asked about Gore’s possible trip to Pyongyang.  [Yonhap]

Considering Gore has made a $100 million since he was the Vice-President he has more than enough money to offer his own bailout package to the North Koreans to get these reporters released.  In all seriousness his trip to North Korea could get the reporters released since it would be a great propaganda coup for the regime and an opportunity to open direct talks with the US.