Via Reuters:

North Korea found two U.S. journalists it has held since March guilty of illegal entry and sentenced them to 12 years hard labour, its official KCNA news agency said on Monday. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested while working on a story near the border between North Korea and China. Their trial opened on Thursday. [...] Experts say North Korean law dictated a sentence of 10 years or more of hard labour.

Are they kidding or what!? Come on people, this is just plain fucking retarded!

N.Korea sentences US journalists to 12 years [Reuters]
N. Korea Sentences 2 U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor [NYTimes]