Laura Ling and Euna Lee get wordy

Euna Lee has written a letter to supporters and posted it on Laura and Euna, a site that had been created to call for the release of the two journalists as they were held in North Korea. She writes that she's made scrambled eggs, combed her daughter's hair and spent time with her husband. "I am slowly fulfilling the wish list that I made in North Korea one item at a time," she writes.

Every moment when I realize it’s real, when I am home and I am with my family, I think of all the individuals who were there at the vigils, who wrote letters to us and to the government, who read and followed our news and were concerned about us and helped Laura and I to come home.

Knowing that you would not stop until we came home kept me going day by day in North Korea.

Colleague Laura Ling has gone one step further. Although the two have been back in the U.S. for less than a week, the Wall Street Journal reports that she is shopping a book proposal with her sister, TV journalist Lisa Ling.

According to a publisher who has seen the proposal and asked to remain anonymous, Ms. Ling, together with her sister, Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show," is offering a book that will examine the meaning of sisterhood and journalistic ideals. The issue of Laura Ling’s captivity will be discussed, but in a larger context.

The work is being represented by Suzanne Gluck and others at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Ms. Gluck declined comment.

It's no surprise that two journalists are putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards) after their ordeals. But maybe it would make sense for the two of them to work together on a book -- something that tells us of their experience in North Korea, a nation so unknown to the rest of the world.

Because I have a sister, I know what that's about. Pyongyang, on the other hand....

-- Carolyn Kellogg

Photo: Laura Ling, left, and Euna Lee arrive at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on August 5. Credit: Jae C. Hong / Associated Press

Comments

[Ditzy]

Would never buy it. Don't bother writing it. Go crawl in a hole.

[Spelunker]

What about Mitch Koss? Now that Laura and Euna are safely back on US soil eating pizza and scrambled eggs, where is his book deal? After all he has a story to tell as well, but maybe not as long since he didn't get captured by North Korean border sentries. Doesn't he deserve at least a magazine article? National Geographic Traveler?
Runner's World?

[Jo Jo]

God people, what is wrong with you?

What a sad person you are Ditzy. Boy I feel sorry for you; even more so for your family and friends that have to be around you. Like the one book you won't buy makes a difference. Your opinion is not that of all the country, thank goodness.

If Mitch Koss wanted a book deal he could shop it. It isn't her place to shop his deal.

[Sam Brown]

It is great to see the simple list: scramble eggs, comb my daughter's hair... That really endeared her to me.

Having deployed to the middle east and been without basic comforts, I can empathize with her. Of course, the soldiers & Marines are also separated from loved ones, from basic freedoms to come and go, from favorite foods; and know that there is a chance they can be killed any time.

But, isolation... Way to go, ladies!

[Sam Brown]

The Mitch Koss Runner's World article jab is hilarious!!! That is too funny!

[Nang Myun]

I hope when these oppotunists count their money from all the books, movies and appearences being offered, they remember it's blood money. There is no acknowledgement of all the people in China and North Korea they left in harm's way. The people Lisa Ling tricked during her secret filming for National Geographic, the people revealed in Euna Lee and Laura Ling's captured cameras and all the refugees and undergroung network people who are now known to North Korean CIA are being hunted, captured or were executed because of these women's stupidity. It's a shame the real victims get no scrambled eggs, pizza or freedom...

[soul.la.ti.do]

Interesting. It's good to hear they will make their experience available to people for their own interpretation.

I don't agree with the sentiment that they have sold out in some way. Clearly, they had a very traumatic ordeal after which they went home and spent time with those who miss them most. Most who seek fame and seek to capitalize on such scandals do the TV circuits and talk shows.