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North Korea may no longer be branded by the United States as part of a global "axis of evil," but the recent arrest of two American journalists there is throwing a serious wrench in the Obama administration's goal to make Pyongyang a nuclear non-proliferating power. Today, North Korea announced that two female U.S. reporters, arrested March 17, will stand trial for acts against the state. If convicted, the women, who have been held in Pyongyang since their arrest, could land in jail for at least five years. The announcement closely follows last week's sentencing of another...
...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know...
Either way, even if the world outside Latin America might view the practice as a 21st-century version of a 19th-century evil, making children part of a prison's population has become an integral part of the region's corrections culture. "Kids learn to adapt," says Estensorro. "I believe they really are better off here...
...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, Los Angeles...
...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know...