It doesn’t look like American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling are coming home anytime soon.

The two women, who work for Al Gore’s Current TV, were detained by North Korean border guards near the China border on March 17, and will be tried for "illegal entry and hostile acts," according to North Korea state-run media outlet KCNA. Authorities were "making a preparation for indicting them at a trial on the basis of the already-confirmed suspicions." Lee and Ling were working on a story about the underground networks organizing the smuggling of women out of North Korea and their sale in China.

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice says the United States is working with Sweden on their "safe and swift release." A Swedish diplomat has been allowed to visit them in Pyongyang.

"We’re very concerned about the circumstances of these two journalists," Rice told ABC News. "We don’t have any reason to be certain they will be put on trial. We remain hopeful that their release may be made possible swiftly and safely." Asked if they were safe, Rice said: "To the best of our knowledge."

Groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders are urging the release of the women. They say Lee and Ling could face between five and ten years of forced labor if convicted.

"There is an urgent need for North Korea’s neighbors, especially China, to apply diplomatic pressure to obtain the release of Ling and Lee as soon as possible," Reporters Without Borders said. "It would be unacceptable if North Korea used the two journalists for diplomatic blackmail at a time when it has stepped up tension in the peninsula by announcing a missile launch."

Meanwhile, another jailed American journalist, Roxana Saberi, finally got to see her parents today. Saberi, 31, has been held in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison since January.

"They told me that she was OK and has been given access to a television and books in the prison," one family friend told AFP.

Saberi’s parents reportedly said she was in good condition. Her father had previously said he was extremely worried about her mental state. Saberi has been indicted and her case will go before Tehran’s revolutionary court; the exact charges against her are still unknown. Iran says she was gathering news illegally on expired press credentials. The Iranian American was born in the United States; her father lives in Fargo, ND. She has reported for the BBC, NPR, FOX News and other media.