Reporters' families seek mercy from North Korea

2009/06/09 07:50:39 @Reuters: Top News

SEOUL (Reuters) - Relatives of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea called on the reclusive state to show compassion, while Pyongyang threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend itself. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d0Uc72gS6q8:je6y3HyzV5M:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d0Uc72gS6q8:je6y3HyzV5M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=d0Uc72gS6q8:je6y3HyzV5M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=d0Uc72gS6q8:je6y3HyzV5M:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=d0Uc72gS6q8:je6y3HyzV5M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/d0Uc72gS6q8" height="1" width="1"/
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