Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home (ePub)

Print Length: 338 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062000683
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (May 18, 2010)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English


On March 17, 2009, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors who were fleeing the desperate conditions in their homeland. While filming on the Chinese–North Korean border, they were chased down by North Korean soldiers who violently apprehended them. Laura and Euna were charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il's notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and eventually a trial before North Korea's highest court. They were the first Americans ever to be sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea.