Current TV (TopTV 406) - one of the news and information channels that will be included on the TopTV satellite service of On Digital Media (ODM) that launches commercially on Saturday - will broadcast an arresting documentary special on 19 May, entitled Captive in North Korea.
TopTV's launch is just in time for South Africans who, with Captive in North Korea, will be able to watch the story of Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee who were held captive by the North Koreans for more than four months early last year. They were filming an episode for the fourth season of the Current TV documentary show Vanguard that South Africans will now also be be able to see. Both were sentenced to 12 years of hard labour before the former American president Bill Clinton negotiated their release.
Current TV was started by the former American vice president Al Gore who will be in South Africa on Thursday evening for the official TopTV launch party. I will be there too and I have a press conference with Al Gore on Friday morning after I broke the news of his upcoming attendance RIGHT HERE.
