In all sincerity, let's hope our State Department brings these journalists home from North Korea. Euna Lee and Laura Ling (pictured above) have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor. If you aren't familiar with the story, you can read about it here. I have my fingers crossed they will be deported home.This story has caused me to relive the horror of my own Korean nightmare. The incident occurred on an international flight I took years ago. Unwittingly, I collected my luggage from the baggage claim area, ignorant to the anguish ahead. My bags were SATURATED with kimchi juice because a fellow passenger decided to transport vast amounts of kimchi on our flight. The containers broke. The stench was putrid. My poor car never recovered from that fateful ride home from the airport. (Kind of like that Seinfeld episode with the body odor stench in Jerry's Saab.) Those were dark days. If you can't relate or appreciate the intense assault on my senses, then you have never met kimchi.
One thing is certain, you will never catch me in North Korea. There are one too many detractors to risk traveling to that corner of hell.
