In peril in Pyongyang? Those girls were in greater danger sharing a plane with Bill Clinton

I quote this mainly for the Bill Clinton joke...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1205224/In-peril-Pyongyang-Those-girls-greater-danger-sharing-plane-Bill-Clinton.html

A Mail on Sunday investigation has unearthed some rather surprising facts about the pair – facts that show they were hopelessly ill-prepared for their 'mission' to the Chinese-Korean border, that they were working for a minor television organisation run by a former ambulance-chasing lawyer and, while they no doubt did not intend to be captured, the hapless twosome ended up as valuable pawns in an international game of bluff and double bluff.

Indeed, from the whole tawdry affair only one clear winner has emerged – an exuberant Bill Clinton – even if, according to an insider, 'the joke in the White House was that the girls were safer in North Korea than on the plane going home with Bill'.

The two women were sent to China in March to do a report about North Korean refugees pouring over the border. A source familiar with Current said: 'It was the sort of bleeding-hearts liberal story that would play well to their target market. But then Laura decided to take it a step further.'

The Mail on Sunday has spoken to a long-time Democratic Party insider, who is a confidant of Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, now President Obama's Secretary of State.

'Laura is sweet but not very street-smart,' said the insider. 'She was sent to China to make a routine programme about refugees crossing the border from North Korea but, according to Kim Jong Il's people, she was walking across the border and leaping about.

'The official North Korean report said Euna was holding the camera. Of course, there was speculation they were working for the CIA. Forget that. This has been a farce. It couldn't be more embarrassing for Obama and the agency. No one hired these girls. No one in Washington had ever heard about them until they were captured by the North Koreans.

'From everything I have heard about Laura, she is a Valley girl who wanted to play in the big league.  I think she did this as a stunt to compete with her sister. Lisa Ling works with people like Oprah. Laura earns peanuts at a network no one has heard of. This was her big chance.'