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Planned For 10 Years, Out In 2 Hours: How Family Of 9 Escaped North Korea
A North Korean family of nine executed a decade-long escape plan in just two hours, sailing across the Yellow Sea to freedom, though tragedy struck months later when the younger brother who made it all possible died in an accident.
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Man Who Escaped North Korea Reveals What Happens To Citizens If They Buy A TV
Timothy Cho, a two-time defector from North Korea, has revealed the difficulties citizens go through in the secretive nation in order to purchase simple consumer goods such as TVs.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Defector, 6-Year-Old Son Die Of Starvation In Seoul
The bodies of a North Korean defector and her young son have been found in their apartment, Seoul police said Tuesday, with local media reporting they appeared to have died of starvation.
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Shots Fired Along Demilitarised Zone As North Korean Soldier Defects
South Korean guards fired warning shots across the heavily militarised border with North Korea on Thursday as a soldier from the North defected, officials said, complicating efforts to ease tensions over the Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang.
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Escape From North Korea: Defectors Risk All On A Perilous Trek
It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Shenyang, a sprawling provincial capital in northeastern China not far from the border with North Korea, to Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
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South Korea's President Urges Preparations For Mass North Defections
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday told her government to prepare for large-scale defections from North Korea, just days after direct appealing to its citizens to flee their country.
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Planned For 10 Years, Out In 2 Hours: How Family Of 9 Escaped North Korea
A North Korean family of nine executed a decade-long escape plan in just two hours, sailing across the Yellow Sea to freedom, though tragedy struck months later when the younger brother who made it all possible died in an accident.
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Man Who Escaped North Korea Reveals What Happens To Citizens If They Buy A TV
Timothy Cho, a two-time defector from North Korea, has revealed the difficulties citizens go through in the secretive nation in order to purchase simple consumer goods such as TVs.
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Boat Carrying Suspected North Korean Defectors Stopped By South Korea
South Korean authorities on Tuesday detained a North Korean boat carrying people believed to be seeking to defect from the isolated country, the military said.
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North Korean Defector, 6-Year-Old Son Die Of Starvation In Seoul
The bodies of a North Korean defector and her young son have been found in their apartment, Seoul police said Tuesday, with local media reporting they appeared to have died of starvation.
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Shots Fired Along Demilitarised Zone As North Korean Soldier Defects
South Korean guards fired warning shots across the heavily militarised border with North Korea on Thursday as a soldier from the North defected, officials said, complicating efforts to ease tensions over the Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang.
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Escape From North Korea: Defectors Risk All On A Perilous Trek
It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Shenyang, a sprawling provincial capital in northeastern China not far from the border with North Korea, to Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
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South Korea's President Urges Preparations For Mass North Defections
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday told her government to prepare for large-scale defections from North Korea, just days after direct appealing to its citizens to flee their country.
