{"id":5994,"date":"2009-08-04T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/04\/clinton-en-route-to-korea-to-f\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T12:02:05","slug":"clinton-en-route-to-korea-to-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/clinton-en-route-to-korea-to-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton En Route to Korea (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We expect a press conference from the State Department any moment now, so you may want to tune in your radios if you are following this story.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton is reported to be in the air, or something close to in the air, on his way to North Korea to negotiate the release of journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.  Moments ago it was reported that &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.Clinton had already left for the North but had not yet arrived in Pyongyang, Yonhap said in a report from Washington quoting a source familiar with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as he arrives, he will be entering negotiations with the North for the release of the female journalists,&#8221; the source was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The journalists were sentenced last month to 12 years&#8217; hard labor &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/vcCandidateFeed1\/idUSTRE57305J20090804\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We expect a press conference from the State Department any moment now, so you may want to tune in your radios if you are following this story. Bill Clinton is reported to be in the air, or something close to in the air, on his way to North Korea to negotiate the release of journalists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/clinton-en-route-to-korea-to-f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clinton En Route to Korea (Updated)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}