Comments on: Current TV & Mitch Koss Says Durihana’s Claims Are Untrue Fantasies

By: kaji

kaji — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:58:46 +0000

This is a story about rich, arrogant individuals who did not educate themselves sufficiently prior to going into a hostile environment. Does anyone really think had the individuals involved in this case not been relatives of individuals having political connections that they would not still be in the PDRNK right now? It is a shame that these people were so ignorant and careless

By: Adam Cathcart

Adam Cathcart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:04:41 +0000

Although it covers similar ground as the NYT article cited here, I have an English translation of a recent Le Monde article on this same topic which contains a couple of new details: http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/le-m...

By: Man from Modesto

Man from Modesto — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:04:06 +0000

I read another article on this. The leader of the five orphanage homes told the crew they could film only if they did not film faces. They agreed. Then, Ling asked the children to stand in front of the camera and send messages to their mothers in Korea. (The mothers had been deported, and the Chinese fathers put them in the orphanages.)

Does this sound like someone who honors their word? No.

To my mind, there is a huge question about their reason for being there.

By: Bart

Bart — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:48:38 +0000

IN the US, reporters know better than to ever film/tape kids w/o consent of their parents or guardians–even news doesn't do this. I'm sure Euna Lee and Laura Ling thought this would be cute (but did they think the mothers of those children would be watching Current TV?), but it's an amateur move.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:10:30 +0000

Here's the one question I'd like to ask them:

"What information did you give or reveal to the police during your interrogation and detention?"

By: Rachel Yoon

Rachel Yoon — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:00:46 +0000

I am so upset that those two journalists were so reckless and now Laura Ling is shopping for a book deal. It makes me sick that they will make money, get attention and probably get a better job than Current TV while North Korean refugees and orphans will probably starve to death this winter. Shame on them

By: Glans

Glans — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:57:04 +0000

The Chinese authorities seized video from Mitch Koss.

The North Korean authorities seized video from Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

By: Sai-Kit Hui

Sai-Kit Hui — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:04:06 +0000

It's easy to rip Laura Ling, Euna Lee, and Mitch Koss and they are no doubt making it very easy to do so.

But ultimately they're not the ones hunting down orphans and sending them back to North Korea.

This is the most media coverage North Korean Human Rights has ever seen and unfortunately it's mostly focused on drama at home when it should be on the plight of refugees in China.

I just don't find any benefit in bashing them.