Reporters freed from North Korea issue thank-you video, say they’ll talk about ordeal later

Freed reporters issue video thanks to supporters

LOS ANGELES — The television reporters held captive in North Korea for 4½ months have issued a brief videotaped statement thanking all of the people who worked for their release.

The video, posted Thursday on Current TV’s Web site, shows Euna Lee and Laura Ling sitting on a couch. Both look fit and rested a week after returning home.

Lee says the two plan to eventually share the story of their incarceration. Until then she asked for more time alone with their families.

Ling adds: “But in the meantime, we just had to say thank you.”

The two were working on a story for Current TV when they were seized after crossing into North Korea from China.