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Article: Escape to the South; North Korea.(North Korean refugees)(some refugees are attempting escape through China)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2002
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The long and dangerous route to safety
A YOUNG North Korean who had escaped to China wrote to Chun Ki-won, a South Korean missionary, to say he was thinking of setting fire to himself in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. This, he said, would draw attention to the plight of those like him who desperately wanted to get to South Korea. Mr Chun has become known in the Koreas as a man who has worked to provide an escape route from the North to the South. He has risked his life--and has spent time in a Chinese jail--to bring 170 northerners to South Korea by way of Mongolia, Thailand and Cambodia. But many thousands of North Koreans still live in China in fear of being ...
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