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tjarco ago

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/laura-ling-euna-lee-and-north-korea/?_r=0 http://archive.is/llYE5

"Another possibility, which I incline to, is that Ling and Lee may have been sold to North Korea by a local guide. If the guide said that it was safe to cross, or that they were still on Chinese territory, they would have believed him. Moreover, by some accounts they were working on a story about human trafficking — there’s a good deal of trafficking of North Korean women and girls into China, into prostitution and to be wives of peasants — and the traffickers could well have tricked them in exchange for a reward from North Korea. "