Freed US journalists Laura Ling (L) and Euna Lee deplane after arriving from North Korea at the airport in Burbank, California with former US president Bill Clinton on August 5, 2009. Following talks in Pyongyang with Clinton, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned the women were sentenced to hard labor for entering the country illegally. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)