**Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reports.**He travelled there to discuss the fate of two jailed US reporters, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says.
It says Mr Clinton will try to negotiate the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sentenced to 12 years hard labour in June.
They were found guilty of of entering North Korea across the Chinese border in March.
The two reporters admitted entering the country illegally, according to North Korea’s state news agency KCNA.
The women’s families have always claimed that Lee, 36, and Ling, 32, had no intention of crossing into North Korea.
They fear the two reporters may become political pawns in negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang, amid growing tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme and recent missile tests.