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Clinton, US journos home safe from NKorea

*FP, California
Bill Clinton and two freed US journalists arrived back safely from North Korea on Wednesday after the former president secured their release' on a historic trip to the reclusive state.
Clinton's chartered plane touched down at Burbank, California slrortly before 6.00 am local time' (1300 GMT), bringing to an end die fourmonth prison ordeal of TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee
A mobile stairway carried a "Welcome Home" banner greeting 32-year old Ling and 36-year-old Lee as hundreds of journalists gathered Ina cavernous private hangar at Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport.
Ling and Lee. who faced 12 years' hard labor before they were pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. were headed for a reunion with ►■overjoyed family members following Clinton's surprise mission the highest-level American trip to North Korea in almost a decade.
A senior US official said die journalists were in "very good health" after 140 days in detendon.
"We are counting the seconds to hold Laura and Euna in our arms." relatives said in a statement thanking Clinton and the current administra tion.
"This is one of the happiest days of my life." Laura Ling's father Doug told CNN.
Despite months of high tensions sparked by' die North's nuclear and missile tests and United Nations sanctions. Clinton received a warm and well publicized welcome in Pyongyang Tuesday.
"Leading papers today carry a photo-accompanied report that leader Kim Jong-Il met with
former US President Bill Clinton on a visit to the DPRK (North Korea)," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
Ilie press also publicised a dinner in Clinton's honor, which according to KCNA "proceeded in a cordial atmosphere."
Striking a markedly positive tone, the agency said Clinton's meetings "reached a consensus of views on seeking a negotiated settlement" of issues dividing the two coun tries."
TV journalists Ling and Lee were arrested while reporting near North Korea's border with China. They were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for illegal entry and "hostile acts."
Kim agreed to pardon them after Clinton "expressed words of sincere apology ' for their "hostile acts." KCNA reported late Tuesday.
After Kim granted his special pardon. Clinton "courteously conveyed a verbal message of US President Barack Obama expressing profound thanks for this and reflecting views on ways of improving the relations between the two countries." the agency said.