US journalist Laura Ling is embraced by her mother Mary Ling as her sister Lisa Ling looks on upon her arrival from North Korea at the airport in Burbank, California.
Freed U.S. journalist Euna Lee is embraced by her husband Michael Saldate and daughter Hana Saldate after arriving with Laura Ling and former President Bill Clinton in Burbank, California August 5, 2009. Ling, 32, and Lee, 36, American journalists freed by North Korea from months of detention, returned to U.S. soil early on Wednesday accompanied by Clinton, who secured their release in a meeting with the hermit state's leader Kim Jong-il.