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cnn news 2013-05-07

Fridays are awesome. Welcome to cnn studentnews. My name is Carl Azuz. First up today, the U.S. and North Korea, you know,there has been a lot of attention between these countries. Right now, a U.S.citizen is in the North Korea jail. He has been sentenced to be held there for15 years. Kenneth Bae was arrested in North Korea back in November. He haddocuments that let me travel there legally. The North Korea officials say theycan admit hostile against that country, although they haven't given anydetails. U.S. government is calling for him to release immediately. Dan Rivershas more on the case and how it could play out.

There is curiously little information aboutKeneth Bae online, just this Facebook page started by his friends campaigningfor his release from the secretive regime. He has been jailed for 15 years hardlabor for quote his criminals and aimed to topple whole North Korea. Officialsnews agency claiming quote his criminals were proved by evidence possiblereference to material to material reportedly found on a hard drive. One ofBae's friends suggesting it may have been as innocuous as photos of orphansbegging. Whatever he has done or hasn't done, experts say he is now abargaining chip for new leader Kim Jong-un.

I think North Korea kind of looks as anyU.S. citizens, in or round North Korea as a mere asset, a commodity that can betraded in the open market, and so Kenneth Bae was just at the wrong place atthe wrong time.

And Bae is not the first. Scenes like thisare becoming all too familiar, cue emotional captive reunited with theirfamilies accompanied by a high profile politician. These was 2009, journalistsLaura Ling and Euna Lee celebrate freedom. Former president Bill Clinton takesthe credit. A year later, it's a different former president Jimmy Carter withanother relieved American Aijalon Gomes. Kenenth Bae is the sixth American inthe wrong place at the wrong time and North Korean may once again be holdingout for a high profile visitor before they gave him out.

What North Korea wants above all out is theentire one-on-one talks with the United States to gain concessions and get anend to punitive sanctions. They may see Kenneth Bae as the perfect way toachieve that aim.

With the announcement of their thirdsuccessful nuclear test in February, the states couldn't be higher. North Koreaeven threatened a preemptive nuclear strike during South Korea and U.S. wargames last month. Those maneuvers are over but it seems the brinkship is not.

From North Korea, we are coming back toNorth America. Our first stop is in Mexico. President Obama arrived thereyesterday. He went to meet with Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto and talkabout some of the issues that affect both their countries that includessecurity and immigration. Some people in Mexico City greeted President Obama's arrivalwith protest. Their angry about U.S. immigration policies. The latest estimatesshow that more than 11 million Mexicans live in the United States that includesan estimate 6 million who were in the U.S. illegally. U.S. and Mexico share aborder. They do a lot of businesses with each other. We are talking about 500billion dollars worth of business last year. Mexico is the United States thirdbiggest trade partner. The U.S. is Mexico's top trade partner. So businesses inthese countries economy were likely to be big subjects of discussion yesterday.Just like they were when President Obama met with Pena Nieto at the White Houselast year.

Our next story takes us to SouthernCalifornia where hundreds of fire fighters are dealing with at least two wildfires. And an acre, for reference, is about the same size as a football field.As of yesterday, these fires had burnt across more than 60,000 acres. Somecrews are working from the air, they are using helicopters to drop water andchemicals on the flames, trying to get these things under control. Part of theproblem is that southern California has only gotten a couple inches of rainthis year. It doesn’t get a lot to start with, but it’s gotten less than usual.That’s left the area dry, and officials say that plus strong winds and warmweather can create extreme fire behavior.

Kyung Lah reported on the conditions thereyesterday.