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‘Tougher now to get them out’: Man who has helped over 1,000 N. Koreans defect to the south
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Documentary film Beyond Utopia follows a North Korean family as they defect to South Korea via China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
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SEOUL – Swimming across the half-frozen Tumen river to flee from hunger in North Korea to China, a female army commander sought refuge at a nearby church. She met a stout young missionary from South Korea who bore an uncanny resemblance to her country’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il.
She was smitten at first sight.
