Edited sentence: A private plane carrying former President Bill Clinton and the two journalists whose freedom he secured in a visit to North Korea landed at Bob Hope Airport on August 5, 2009.Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korea from China on March 17 while working for San Francisco-based Current TV.The emotional return was carried live on national television.They were released after a special pardon by communist North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il