Lisa Ling, sister of Laura Ling, confirmed today the Laura and Euna Lee did in fact break North Korean law, and were rightfully convicted and imprisoned in North Korea. Lisa said on CNN it was professional duty to research a story on human trafficking that led Current TV journalist Laura and Euna into North Korea on March 17.

According to Lisa, Laura Ling (32), admitted to family members that she "very briefly" trespassed into enemy territory with colleague Euna Lee, 36. This led North Korea to detain the two journalists and sentence them to 12 years hard labor, which resulted in an international incident that this week saw former President Bill Clinton meet with North Korea’s President Kim Jong Il to arrange the release of the women, who were returned to American soil Wednesday.

"She did say that they touched North Korean territory very, very briefly," Lisa Ling, 35, told CNN on Thursday. "She said that it was maybe 30 seconds, and everything just got sort of chaotic." Adding that Laura has details she will provide, Lisa noted, "It’s a very powerful story and she does want to share it."

In a phone conversation with Meredith Vieira that was aired live on Friday’s Today" show, Lisa (who, like Vieira, is a former cohost on The View), said it may take Laura some time to tell her tale, given that during her imprisonment she spent weeks not uttering a word.

"Even getting sentences out is challenging, because she’s not used to talking as much,” Lisa said of Laura’s current condition. "So we’re just taking things very, very easy with her."

She did say that her sister, who is at home with her family, is enjoying have fresh food again after subsisting on a less-than-adequate diet while under North Korean detention: primarily rice mixed with rocks, small vegetables and fragments of fried fish, "which she developed a reaction to," Lisa told CNN.

"Bathing was a little bit difficult because they didn’t have hot water," she also said. "So she would fill up buckets and she would say, ’Okay, on Saturday I’m going to wash my hair.’ "

As for those who stood watch over her sister, Lisa said, "I think she won a lot of her captors over. She had some really lovely things to say about the people who were watching her. She had two guards in her room at all times. And even though they couldn’t speak together, they developed a sort of strange kinship."

Perhaps the most moving sight as the two women left the plane that brought them to the Bob Hope International Airport in Burbank, California, on Wednesday was Euna Lee’s embracing her young child Hana. Now that the mother is home, said Lisa Ling, "I hear that Euna’s 4-year old daughter does not want her to leave her sight. She keeps following her from room to room."

Someone needs to keep an eye on Euna since she seems prone to make stupid decisions.

The North Korean border, from what I understand, is made up of a river, so stepping onto North Korean territory would require a boat, and once arriving a person would stay only 30 seconds, especially if they were following a story. It’s blatantly obvious Laura and Euna are liars. They should have served out their sentence, and kept their dignity, but instead they have returned to sell their story.

Thank to these two stupid criminals one of our most admired Presidents sat and showed his respect to Kim Jong Il, and even did a photo shoot with him, all at a time when Kim Jong Il has restarted his country’s nulcear program using our money meant to help his people. Nice job Laura and Euna, you’ve made the United States look like even bigger fools in the eyes of the world. Laura and Euna are both a disgrace. These two criminals deserve no more sympathy than any other criminal. These two are not the victims, the American people are. The pictures below show our now disgraced ex President Bill Clinton with Kim Jong Il.

I don’t blame Bill Clinton for wanting to help, when it comes to women, he’s always thinking with his little Bill.

The Lisa Ling CNN interview is below.

A black loud mouthed, unfunny, ugly as a rhino’s butt, obnoxious, trashy, low class woman with the last name of a Jew has replaced a woman with the exact same qualifications, except the other one was also a lesbian and she didn’t make it till the end of her one year contract, but that doesn’t mean Whoopi isn’t any better or worse. I am referring of course to Whoopi Goldberg who is now the new moderator of The View. My friend has an outstanding reward of $5,000 he’ll pay to anyone who can provide him with an example of Whoopi Goldberg being funny, intentionally. He has yet to pay it out. I think Whoopi won an award for least funny comedian ever. Whoopi was the second to receive the award, Rosie O’Donnell got the first. The smartest girl to ever be on this show yet was the Chinese girl Lisa Ling who quit in 2002. The View is where burned out celebrities go when their career is in the gutter. That show would have a bigger female audience if the producers replaced all the women with a puppet show, and short clips of guys getting kicked in the balls.

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Oprah Winfrey Show, National Geographic Channel correspondent, and former The View co-host Lisa Ling (33) is engaged to Chicago-based doctor Paul Song, her rep said.

Song (41) an oncologist who works at Chicago’s Little Company of Mary Hospital, flew Ling’s family and his own to Chicago over the holidays to surprise Ling at the restaurant Charlie Trotter’s, where he proposed in a private dining room.

The couple, who met through mutual friends, plan to marry later this year.

Ling broke off her engagement to media entrepreneur Philip Levine in October 2005. She was a co-host on ABC’s The View before leaving in 2002 to host National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer.

Song earned his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and trained at the University of Chicago Hospitals.