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Broadway Signs U.S. Journalist Euna Lee
Monday 23. November 2009 - Euna Lee, the Korean-American journalist who, with fellow Current TV journalist Laura Ling, was captured, incarcerated, and condemned to hard labor this year by the totalitarian regime of communist North Korea, has reached agreement with Broadway Books, an imprint of Random Houses Crown Publishing Group, to write a book in which she will describe her experiences.
In her book, tentatively entitled, “The World Is Bigger Now: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Freedom,” Ms. Lee will recount the circumstances of her capture on March 17, 2009 by the North Korean military at the border region of China and North Korea where she and Ms. Ling were investigating a story about the trafficking of female North Korean refugees. In addition to detailing her 140 days of imprisonment, her ongoing interrogation and her efforts to protect her sources and the subjects of her reporting, she will describe how her deep Christian faith and unshakable belief in family sustained her during her captivity.
In June, Ms. Lee and Ms. Ling were found guilty of illegal entry into North Korea and sentenced to twelve years hard labor. Both women were pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on August 5, the day after former President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang on a publicly unannounced mission to secure their release.