Well....until we actually see it.....

I heard North Korea has the video they shot which shows them knowingly crossing the border. 12 years.

Yeah, no doubt NK is a bit unpredictable and erratic, which I'm sure is exactly how they want to be percieved. It's too bad our roving reporters will have to deal with it now.

I agree that Laura and Euna simply should not have been prancing around the NK border. The demarcation line may not have been that apparent. But yes - they were taking a big risk by being there. But then again, risk is part of their business I guess.

After some thought, even though the smart thing would be to use them as pawns, and to hold them in a semi-safe place, I wouldn't put anything beyond the DPRK - and I think we should take their sentences of 12 years HARD LABOR seriously. No reason to think that they'll be doing anything less than their sentence. If they die, like you said, it will be blamed on them by NK!