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...Chinese city with neon-tinted karaoke lounges and rowdy bars. The other side looks like a sprawling concentration camp, with barrackslike buildings and barbed wire strewn about. This is the North Korean town of Hyesan. A giant sign on a hill above the riverbank proclaims: "Long live General Kim Jong Il, Sun of the 21st Century!" But the 21st century doesn't appear to have graced Hyesan yet. At night, the city is pitch black, save one seven-story building that is inexplicably ablaze with light. The Chinese who peer across the river at the glowing building, which is empty...
...father was second-in-command of a battalion, and four of the kids went to college. Ryu, now 35, majored in electrical engineering and even studied English. "Happy family," she says, remembering a few faltering words of English. In 1996, however, two years after North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung died, the famines worsened and Ryu's family was soon reduced to one meal...
...Just down the street from Ryu lives another North Korean bride, whose tale has less of a storybook ending. Kim was a nurse back in North Korea and first tried to come to China seven years ago. Instead of crossing into a city, where she could melt into the crowds, Kim hiked up into the rugged mountains surrounding Changbai. Up in the alpine tundra, there were no border markings, and Kim wandered for days, unsure at first if she had reached China or was still in North Korea. To protect her chapped feet from the snow, she wrapped grass around...
...After her release from the labor camp, Kim tried yet again to reach China and finally succeeded. She was sold as a wife to a miner. But unlike Ryu, Kim has no love for her husband. He beats her, she says, and wastes their money gambling. Kim says she cannot complain, because her mother-in-law has threatened to report her to the police if Kim bad-mouths her son. The only option is to run away. Many North Korean wives do just that, which is why some Chinese men lock up their refugee brides at night...
After a layup by Herzogenburg’s Kim Alexander closed the gap to 31-24 with 1:18 left in the half, junior guard Katie Murphy dished to Peljto for a layup and then added a layup of her own off a nice steal to put the score at 35-24 at the half...