Breaking on Maddow - Fmr Prez Bill Clinton heading to N Korea to negotiate release of journalists...

[Dennis Donovan]

http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSTRE57305J20090804

SEOUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is on his way to North Korea to try to negotiate the release of two American journalists convicted by the communist state of "grave crimes," South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.

Clinton had already left for the North but had not yet arrived in Pyongyang, Yonhap said in a report from Washington quoting a source familiar with the issue.

"As soon as he arrives, he will be entering negotiations with the North for the release of the female journalists," the source was quoted as saying.

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