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North Korean Defector Makes Wild Escape Across Giant Minefield
A North Korean defector dodged a shoot-on-sight order, armed guards, and dozens of land mines to cross one of the most ...
North Korean flees through DMZ
A North Korean man made a daring escape to freedom, traversing on foot one of the world’s most fortified places: the Korean ...
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10 Strange Survival Lessons from Escaping North Korea
How to Survive shares ten strange survival lessons from people who escaped North Korea, revealing unexpected tactics and ...
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A new movie follows the dangerous escape journey North Koreans make to China - NPR
A new documentary uses rare footage of the escape route North Koreans take as they try to defect. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Madeleine Gavin and defector Soyeon Lee about the journey.
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'Beyond Utopia' Documents Daring Escape From North Korea. - Deadline
It is mostly women who try to escape North Korea, and for those who become stranded in China – a number that could be in the hundreds of thousands – life is grim.
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Escaping North Korea and Other Tales from Beyond Utopia | PBS
Through experience, North Korean people do not trust the government and have no expectations to get any help or protection from it. For North Koreans to make a living, escape from North ...
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Escape from North Korea, then and now - The Korea Times
Even under heavy surveillance, defectors have taken to the skies to escape North Korea. In 1953, Lt. No Kum-sok flew a Soviet MiG-15 jet to Gimpo Air Base in South Korea, a story later ...
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She fled North Korea but was sold to a man in China. Her second escape came nearly 20 years later. - WRAL
Just 196 North Koreans entered South Korea last year, according to the Unification Ministry – more than the previous two years during the pandemic, but a steep drop from pre-pandemic levels.