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...from Bangkok. It's just before dawn, the daily chaos of noise and traffic still hours away. Kim (a pseudonym she used to protect her family in North Korea) is about to meet, for the first time, the men responsible for saving her life. One is Kim Sang Hun, a lay Christian from Seoul. The other is the Rev. Tim Peters, a soft-spoken evangelical Christian pastor from Benton Harbor, Mich., who runs the Seoul-based charity Helping Hands Korea. More than any other Westerner, Peters has become the public face of a network of activists, many motivated by their...
...Korean-Chinese translator. But the fear of arrest gnawed at her. Her Chinese was not fluent, and in 2005 the crackdown on refugees intensified. Because of her forced abortion, she could not have children, which caused irreparable strains in her marriage. In October 2005, her mother met Kim Sang Hun--a prominent underground-railroad activist in Seoul who took the case to Peters. The two of them started working on the logistics of Kim Myong Suk's flight to freedom...
...home country; ending a year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders in the future...
...There are other hints of unpleasantness: In the center of town, we pass a poster of a huge fist smashing down on a startled soldier. An American? I ask. ?You can think like that,? replies our guide. Later, chief minder Choe Jong Hun lectures us on Washington's treacherous attempts to get North Korea to disarm unilaterally through the six-party nuclear talks (the latest round last week produced no results). ?After that the U.S. is going to invade our country,? says Choe. ?Such talks are not necessary...
...country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There is no need to sell rice in the markets...