The capture of two American cable TV journalists by North Korean border guards has added a new dimension to the atmosphere of rising tensions surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
Now negotiators must work furiously to extricate the pair from North Korean custody while worrying about North Korea's plan to launch a missile-cum-satellite some time between April 4 and April 8. It's as though Pyongyang timed the episode of the journalists deliberately to heighten a sense of calamity and grab the attention of a world grown weary of mere rhetoric.
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