Freed journalists were kept separated, fed bad food during 140-day captivity

LOS ANGELES — Two American journalists who returned home Wednesday after being held nearly five months in North Korea were separated and fed bad food during their ordeal, but their families never lost faith that they would come back.

President Obama says US government ‘extraordinarily relieved’ at release of 2 journalists

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama proclaimed the U.S. government “extraordinarily relieved” Wednesday over the release of two American journalists from North Korea.

Freed journalists back home in US after Clinton mission to N. Korea wins pardon

BURBANK, Calif. — Two American journalists jubilantly reunited with family and friends early Wednesday upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton, whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests.

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