Trial of Journalists Pits North Korea Against World

washingtonpost.com says:

Facing perhaps 10 years in a labor camp, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, TV reporters accused of illegally entering North Korea and committing unspecified “hostile acts,” go on trial Thursday in Pyongyang in a case that has become part of a nail-biting face-off this spring between North Korea and much of the rest of the world.