Bill Clinton's North Korea Rescue Mission

Bill Clinton's North Korea Rescue Mission
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On Aug. 4 at about 3 p.m. ET (Aug. 5, 4 a.m. in Pyongyang), North Korea announced that it had pardoned the two journalists, who had been sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor. In this photo, Clinton welcomes them aboard the private jet that he used to travel to Pyongyang.

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