‘Home and free,’ US journalists tearfully reunite with families after N. Korea grants pardonBURBANK, Calif. — After months of being left to live alone in fear and hunger, wondering if they might ever be allowed to return to their families, two American journalists held captive in Korea learned in just a heartbeat that they would be going home. Freed journalists were kept separated, fed bad food during 140-day captivityLOS 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. Freed journalists back home in US after Clinton mission to N. Korea wins pardonBURBANK, 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. |