LOS ANGELES — Call me a dupe of the commies if that makes you happy — I really don't care at this point. Maybe all these years I have been wrong to argue that we can negotiate with North Korea; maybe my critics are right and the regime does need to be either ignored and further isolated or, in the worst case scenario, attacked.
All I care about right now is getting Pyongyang to release those two American journalists.
The two women were recently sentenced to years of hard labor for alleged espionage against North Korea. Back in March, you see, they were standing (1) near or (2) on or (3) slightly inside the border between China and North Korea, working on a story for their San Francisco-based cable and Internet station, co-owned and most prominently fronted by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president.