Book review: 'Somewhere Inside' riveting tale of captivity
Published: Tuesday, Oct. 6 2015 12:57 a.m. MDT   () ()
"SOMEWHERE INSIDE: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the
Other's Fight to Bring Her Home," by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling,
William Morrow, 317 pages, $26.99.  In March 2009, broadcast
journalist Laura Ling and her team enter China for another
routine assignment.  Ling, a reporter for former Vice President
Al Gore's news outlet, Current TV, was filming a report on North
Korean defectors. Attempting to escape North Korea's crushing
poverty, defectors cross the border into China. Because China
views the defectors as illegal immigrants, the defectors hide,
living in fear of capture by Chinese authorities. Most of the
defectors are women. What awaits them across the border is not a
safe haven but traffickers who sell them as wives or
prostitutes.  The place where many North Korean defectors cross
into China is a span of the Tumen River. With the aid of a local
guide, Ling and her team go to the