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Article: NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS SUE SOUTH KOREA, ALLEGING TORTURE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 20, 1999
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Yoo Jae Ui sat in the back of a government van, marveling at the late-model cars clogging the streets, the modern high-rise buildings, the colorful neon signs. It was 1995, and Yoo was in Seoul at last.
Three years earlier, he had been sent from North Korea to Siberia to work as a logger. He escaped 18 months later and spent more than a year trying to get to Seoul and claim asylum.
``My days in North Korea and Siberia flashed before my eyes. I thought, `Yes, I made it.' I couldn't have been happier,'' Yoo said. Soon, Yoo said, his happiness turned to dismay.
Yesterday, Yoo and eight other defectors from communist North Korea sued South Korea's ...