By DAVID K. LI with POST WIRES

Last updated: 10:48 am
March 31, 2009
Posted: 2:27 am
March 31, 2009

North Korea will put two American journalists on trial for committing “hostile acts” when they stumbled across its borders, authorities said yesterday.

It wasn’t clear when the communist nation would stage a show trial for Laura Ling — sister of former “View” panelist Lisa Ling — and Euna Lee, who work for Al Gore’s Current TV. Pyongyang’s state-run news agency boasted that the journalists, who were researching a documentary about starving North Korean refugees, had implicated themselves during interrogations since their March 17 capture near the Chinese border.

“The illegal entry of US reporters into the DPRK [North Korea] and their suspected hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their statements,” according to the news agency.

Officials confirmed that the jailed Americans met last weekend with a Swedish diplomat acting as an intermediary for the United States.