Teen medium made suicide pact with friends

If you have read the newspaper during the past few days, you would have come across an article about a teenage self-profressed Taoist medium who made a suicide pact with a few of his friends and his younger brother.
6-year old Ku-Witaya convinced six of his friends and his younger brother to enter into a suicide pact with him. He said that they had to die to become slayers and kill demons in the world. He also told them of a "Third World War". According to a witness, 16, Sia Chan Hong, 16, was the most passionate about the suicide pact while Witaya was unwavering. Out of the the group, only Chan Hong and Witaya jumped in the end. One of them backed out on the night they met while the others backed out on seeing Chan Hong moaning and groaning after jumping.
In my opinion, what they did was extremely foolish. To listen to a friend and believe him is okay but to commit suicide is extremely crazy. I myself am a Christian and I have talked to a few of my friends about Christianity but I will never put them in any life-threatening situation or ask them to take their own lives! It was really saddening to know about this incident.

US journalists claim North Korean soldiers dragged them across the Chinese border

The two journalists from the United States who were detained in North Korea have said that they were dragged across the border by North Korean soldiers. The both of them, Laura Ling and Euna Lee admitted that they had indeed crossed the border on their own, but the time spent there was less than a minute. They were seized by these soldiers on March 17 for crossing the Tumen river, which was frozen at that time with the guide. Here is a statement from the both of them about the incident.
“We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on Chinese soil, but we were no match for the determined soldiers,” Ling and Lee said. “They violently dragged us back across the ice to North Korea.” They also claimed that they may have been lured into a trap. “In the days before our capture, our guide had seemed cautious and responsible,” the reporters said in their statement. “To this day, we still don’t know if we were lured into a trap. Fortunately for these two journalists, they were rescued by Bill Clinton, who came over to North Korea and negiotiated a release for them.