A leading story in the news today has been the release of two American journalists by North Korea. The two women were working on stories in a border region between China and North Korea when they were scooped up and arrested for spying by the North Koreans. There is some question as to which side of the border they were actually on when they were grabbed.
After five months of captivity, during which North Korea threatened to send them to a hard labor camp for their "crimes," there was a recent break in the negotiations for their release. Bill Clinton flew to Pyongyang, sat through a photo op with Kim Jong Il, and whisked the women back to the States.
Meanwhile, three Americans who strayed across the Iranian border while hiking in Iraq have been detained by the Iranians since last Friday.
When the authorities in the United States find citizens of other countries wandering across our borders without authorization, we call them illegal immigrants and boot them out. We actually send them home on our dime. When Iran and North Korea find people crossing their border, they snatch them up and toss them in a dungeon.
Maybe there is something to this "Axis of Evil" thing, after all.
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