Can (Bill) Clinton Save Laura Ling & Euna Lee?

I am pleased to see the U.S. take aggressive action to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegal entry in North Korea - but it displeases me to see that former President Bill Clinton is taking over...his wife's job?

From the Los Angeles Times:

Scott Snyder, a North Korea expert for the nonprofit Asia Foundation, said Clinton's standing as a world statesman carried weight with Pyongyang.

"The North Koreans have a lot of nostalgia for the end of the Clinton administration," he said.

He said Clinton was rumored to have considered visiting Pyongyang before he left office.

"The question is going to be how could he go to Pyongyang without some assurance that they would be released," Snyder said. "For someone at his level to go without a prior assurance of some kind would be to risk a huge loss of face."

Jang Cheol-hyeon, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Strategy and a former official at North Korea's Unification Front Department, said Clinton's visit was the best chance the U.S. has to win the reporters' release.

"He can surely bring the two journalists back home," he said.

Don't get me wrong - I want these two women back on U.S. soil. But I also want the "Clinton administration" not only  to be thought of under the name - Bill - but also the name, Hillary.