By Steve Clemons

Bill Clinton is flying back to the US with just pardoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea.

Tonight at about 8:15 pm EST and then again at 10:15 pm EST on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown, I will be discussing Bill Clinton’s successful trip to North Korea that not only secured pardons and expected release of imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling — but may have brought other constructive currents to the US-North…

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry might have brought Senatorial gravitas to the US-North Korea relationship and have opened connections for Pyongyang beyond the White House.

Tomorrow morning, at about 7:15 am EST, I’ll be chatting about Hillary Clinton’s seven nation tour through Africa on WNYC/National Public Radio’s “The Takeaway.

I’m not meaning to mock anyone with this — but here again is another priceless picture from a TWN reader visiting Okinawa, Japan — which is speckled with nearly 40 separate US military institutions.

This from a reader this morning in Okinawa, Japan. Someone call Conan O’Brien quick.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

This is an email from Tehran drafted by a young woman protester who is a friend of a friend of mine. I have agreed to run it on TWN and know that it may run elsewhere in ther intenet. I have confirmed its authenticity.

Steve Clemons standing next to statue commemorating Xu Xiake (1587-1641), who chronicled his travels throughout China during the late Ming Dynasty. This picture was taken at Liyuan Park on the edge of Lake Taihu in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.

President Obama is going to help mend the rift between African-Americans who have experienced a life of racial-profiling and misunderstood policemen with an early evening White House therapy session involving beer consumption. According to this report, Henry Louis Gates has ordered “Red Stripe”. Cambride, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley will have “Blue Moon”.