Lee, 36, and Ling, 32, were on a reporting trip for Current TV - which was co-founded by Gore - when they were arrested.

36岁的李·丽娜和32岁的凌志美是在为位潮流电视台(戈尔是其合伙创办人)做报道的时候被捕的。

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It was not clear how soon the two journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, would be allowed to leave the country.

目前还不清楚两名记者要过多久才被允许离开该国。两名记者是32岁的凌志美和36岁的李·丽娜。

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Kim Jong Il gave Laura Ling and Euna Lee what North Korean media called a special pardon.

VOA: special.2009.08.08

Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were arrested after entering North Korea in 2009.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

In one of the most high-profile cases, Mr Clinton negotiated the release in 2009 of two US journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been found guilty of entering North Korea illegally.

BBC: North Korea to issue verdict on US citizen

Since 2009, the elder Mr. Lee has been fighting a neurological disease that makes it difficult for him to walk, his daughter Lee Wei Ling, a neuroscientist, wrote in Singapore's Sunday Times in 2011.

WSJ: Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Discharged From Hospital