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Nov 2022
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Original Air Date: 05/18/2010 Her capture sparked an international firestorm. Now, after 140 days in a North Korean prison, reporter Laura Ling breaks her silence. Plus, Ling introduces a family who adopted a Haitian orphan. 
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