ART OF THE TRADE

BANZAI7 NEWS--Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived in PingPong, North Korea's state news agency KCDUPE reports.

He travelled there to discuss the fate of two jailed US reporters, South Korea's Hopsung 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.

Clinton is said to be armed with a complete anthology of Elizabeth Tailor movies, 100 pounds of kimchee flavored chuckles candy, a rare autographed copy of Liberace's autobiography, a box of Cohiba double corona limitada 2003s (the longest Cohiba) and a copy of Trader's, Guns and Money. Said Clinton, I am prepared to trade all of these invaluable items to Dear Liberace in exchange for a few nights with the two hottie journalists. "We're just two ronery Bubba's looking to make a good trade".