ASHTON KUTCHER - KUTCHER OUTRAGED BY CONVICTION OF U.S. JOURNALISTS IN NORTH KOREA

KUTCHER OUTRAGED BY CONVICTION OF U.S. JOURNALISTS IN NORTH KOREA

ASHTON KUTCHER has demanded American politicians race to free two U.S. journalists convicted for illegally entering North Korea, insisting Monday's (08Jun09) shock news of their imprisonment is "a national crisis".
The actor is among those outraged by reports Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been sentenced to 12 years behind bars.
The two Current TV reporters were found guilty of committing "a grave crime" against North Korea, and Kutcher took to his Twitter.com blog to appeal for help on the two journalists' behalf.
He writes, "This should be a national crisis... We have to demand that something be done."
Kutcher went so far as to suggest the U.S. military should get involved, adding, "I say it’s special ops time… If we can save that Captain (Capt. Richard Phillips) from (Somalian) pirates, we can save these journalist (sic)."
Ling and Lee were reporting about the trafficking of North Korean women when they were arrested near the China-North Korea border on 17 March (09).