Bill Clinton arrives in NKorea: state mediaFormer US president Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, the state radio station reported from Pyongyang, on an apparent mission to secure the release of two jailed US journalists. "We're aware that an aircraft from the US landed at Sunan Airport in Pyongyang at around 10:48 am (0148 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 )," it quoted a Seoul official as saying on condition of anonymity. South Korean officials could not immediately confirm the report. The agency and Chosun Ilbo newspaper earlier reported Clinton was en route to the communist state This article is about a form of government in which the state operates under the control of a Communist Party. For information regarding communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, or as a popular movement, see the communism article. to try to secure the release of two jailed US journalists. Laura Ling ling: see cod. and Euna Lee were arrested in mid-March near the border with China while reporting on refugees fleeing the impoverished im·pov·er·ished adj. 1. Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken. See Synonyms at poor. 2. Deprived of natural richness or strength; limited or depleted: North. A Pyongyang court in June sentenced them to 12 years of "reform through labour" for illegal entry and an unspecified Adj. 1. unspecified - not stated explicitly or in detail; "threatened unspecified reprisals" specified - clearly and explicitly stated; "meals are at specified times" "grave crime." 
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