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Two journalists arrested on the border between China frontier and North Korea

March 20, 2009

North Korean border guards arrested two reporters , with a dual citizenship of Korea and United States of America, at the border with China who were filming on the Tumen river, just on the Chinese side of the border.

The two journalists work for an online’ Press Agency, based in California. A South Koran government employee told YTN channel that the border guards crossed the frontier on the March 17th to reach the Chinese area and arrested the journalists for refusing to heed the policemen’s warnings to stop filming.

source: http://www.p-es.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2785&Itemid=62

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