by Laura Ling
Thank you, President Barack Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and those in the White House and Department of State for your unwavering efforts: Kurt Tong, Linda McFadyen, Alex Arvizu, Stephen Bosworth, Kurt Campbell, Dan Cintron, Roberta Cooper, Maureen Cormack, Glyn Davies, Joseph Detrani, Daryl Hegendorfer, Sherri Holliday-Sklar, Allison Hooker, Sung Kim, Julie Kim-Johnson, Dan Larsen, John Merrill, Cheryl Mills, Jaime Oberlander, Johna Ohtagaki, Pamela Park, Amy Patel, Eric Richardson, Jennifer Roque, Ed Shin, Jim Steinberg, Jake Sullivan, Mark Tesone, the U.S. Bureau of Consular Affairs, Janice L. Jacobs, Michele Thoren Bond, Michelle Bernier-Toth, David J. Schwartz, the U.S. Embassy Beijing, Richard L. Buangan, Linda L. Donahue, Nancy W. Leou, Bridget M. Lines, Teta M. Moehs, Maria W. Sand, Randy Townsend, William Weinstein, and the U.S. Consulate General Shenyang.
To everyone who helped with the vigils and other efforts: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to help; you were lights for Laura in a very dark place. Most important, thank you for your friendship and prayers (again, if we’ve forgotten anyone, please forgive us): Brendan McShane Creamer, Elsa Cheung, Brenna Hamilton, Beth Diebels, Marcus Marquez and everyone at the L Wine Lounge, Elizabeth MacMillan, Jim Jordan, Isabel Johnson, Del Campo High School, Cheryl Marsh, Mike Shen, Daniel Beckmann, Holly Gibson, Kathy Zembera, San Francisco Academy of Art, Danielle Chang, Angie Wang, Rose Tibayan, Paula Rangel, Max Jones, Kim Jones, Lisa Anderson, Meghan Miller Jedrzejczyk, Nancy Loo, Teresa Cheung, Linda Yu, Richard Horgan, Stephanie Tsai, Nina May, Todd Leong, Cindy Hwang, Rob Everett, David Ly, Fred Teng, Kevin DeSoto, Dina Morishita, Welly Yang, Teddy Zee, Woody Pak, Alex Castro, Michael Beynart, Michael Fitzgerald, Joe Omar Gonzales, Kristina Velasco, Maya Lin, Lynn Perkins, Rebecca Delgado, Jeff Ong, Mindy Lee, Sara Mibo Sohn, Benson Lee, Lucie Morillion, Asia Liu, Karen Leigh, Janice Lee, Lisa Chung, Erik Gregory, Nzinga Shakur, Sean Donovan, Lisa Jenkins, Joyce Mar, Jennie Chau, Pastor Ken Joe, Trevor Debenning, LeeAnn Kim, Narcissus Allen, Stephanie Tomasegovich, Scott Ichikawa, Marcus Kwan and everyone at Wokano, Sharon Ito, George Huang, Hugh Hung, Kelly Wald, Steve Liu, Jason Martin, Hannah Song, Tia Carerre, Kelly Hu, Takoa Statham, David Kater, Chris Pham, Bobby Choy, Tom Plate, Mia Kim, Michele Chan, Susie Suh, Mark Dacasascos, Chin Han Ng, Sam Kang, Cynthia Cheng, Serena Kung, Joe Baker, Jan Yanehiro, Wendy Tronrud, John and Laurel Kao, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr., Nickie Shapira, Wendy Walker, Diane Sawyer, Larry King, Margaret Aro, Jon Klein, Anderson Cooper, Charlie Moore, Bob Dietz, Tim Kelly, Chris Albert, Bombu Taiko, Yukai Daiko, Diann Kim, John Frank, the Song Family, Ken Roh, Clothilde Le Coz, Joe Hahn, David Neuman, Bill Boyd, Ron Burkle, Jean Shim, Iman Dakhil, Aude Soichet, Richard Blum, President Jimmy Carter, Congressman Ed Royce, Young Kim, Congressman Dan Lungren, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Richard Harper, Senator Barbara Boxer, Ann Norris, Supervisor Mike Antonovich, Congressman Howard Berman, Mayor Kevin Johnson, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, Governor Bill Richardson, Janice Hartly, Senator John Kerry, Frank Jannuzi, Leon Fuerth, Pastor Jim Lee, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Steve Bing, Andrew Liveris, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Konrad Ng, Lisa Smith, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, British Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell, Baroness Janet Whitaker, Baroness Caroline Cox, Lord David Alton, Glyn Ford, Ambassador Peter Hughes, Susie Joscelyne, Mayor Ray Mallon, the Korean Peninsula Desk at the British Foreign Commonwealth Office, Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell and members of the Pugwash Conference, Lucy Keung, Robert Picard, Dr. Urs Lustenberger, Robert Hathaway and others at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, the Asian American Journalists Association, and Amnesty International.
To Euna: I will never forget the courage and bravery you exhibited during those first six days of our captivity. You helped give me strength and hope. Thank you for sharing your incredible heart. I will forever regard you as a special part of my family. Love, Laura.
About the Authors
LAURA LING was vice president of Current TV’s investigative journalism series Vanguard, and also served as an on-air correspondent for the show. Prior to joining Current in 2005, Laura worked as a series producer for Channel One News.
LISA LING is a correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show, and a contributor to ABC’s Nightline and the National Geographic channel. She was also a co-host of ABC’s The View until 2002.
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Copyright
All insert photographs, unless otherwise indicated, are from the Ling family collection. Page 6, top and bottom: photographs by Eric Powell; page 10, top: photograph by Bob Toy; page 11, top: photograph by Rory White; page 11, bottom, and page 12, top: photographs courtesy of Sara Mibo Sohn; page 12, bottom: photograph by Hector Amezcua; page 13, top: reprinted with permission of the Associated Press/KRT TV via APTN; page 13, bottom: photograph by Morgan Wandell; page 15, top: photograph by Robyn Beck/Getty Images; page 15, bottom: photograph by Charles Clayton.
SOMEWHERE INSIDE. Copyright © 2010 by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ling, Laura, 1976–
Somewhere inside: one sister’s captivity in North Korea and the other’s fight to bring her home/Laura Ling and Lisa Ling.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-200067-5
1. Ling, Laura, 1976–—Captivity, 2009. 2. Ling, Lisa. 3. Hostages—Korea (North) 4. Journalists—Korea (North) 5. Americans—Korea (North)6. Korea (North)—Politics and government—1994–7. Journalists—United States—Biography. 8. Clinton, Bill, 1946–I. Ling, Lisa. II. Title.
PN4841.L56A3 2010
365'.45092—dc22
[B]
2010012124
EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201071-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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