...not in North Korea, where Twitter bombing can't change the country's ironclad lock on information:

North Korea's state media released a "detailed report" Tuesday claiming that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee entered the country illegally in order to record material for a "smear campaign" against the reclusive communist state.

It added that the two women "admitted that what they did were criminal acts ... prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of the DPRK by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it."

What these two journalists did was illegal by North Korean law, just as what Iran's citizens are doing is illegal by Iranian mandate. The former will eat the one-sided story told by NK's government and work in prison camps for 12 years until bandied about as a bargaining chip by the missile bearers; Americans sit smugly, calling the women out because "they knew the consequences." The latter are lifted by an echoing, international shout to make things right, to tell as many sides of the story as we can unfold. Differing degrees of fear and disdain turn injustice into ignorance and back.