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In what is a developing role for the fomer President Bill Clinton is headed to North Korea for talks involving human rights violatations with the communist country.The Obama administration has gotten two for the price of one with the Clintons with Bill never one to shy away from the lime light.
Mr. Clinton was on his way to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, according to the Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified source familiar with the situation. The White House declined to comment on Monday night.
The journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, were detained by soldiers on March 17near the North Korean border with China. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean prison camp for “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry.”
The administration had been mulling for weeks whether to send a special envoy to North Korea. The choice of Mr. Clinton would mark his first public mission on behalf of the Obama administration. His wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been deeply involved in the journalists’ case.
The jailing of Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee came amid a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States after Pyongyang tested a nuclear device in May and then launched a number of missiles. The White House marshaled support at the United Nations for strict sanctions against the North Korean government, including a halt to all weapons sales and a crackdown on its financial ties.
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