Bay Area journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee of San Francisco-based Current TV say they almost ended up in a communist prison camp for stepping on North Korean soil for “not more than a minute.” In their first account of what became an international incident, the two expressed regret for following their guide across a frozen river that separates North Korea and China. They said the guide had acted strangely and they wonder whether they had walked into a trap.
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