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...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 Christian faith, who have...
...founding members of the underground railroad long after he first arrived in South Korea. He was a senior at Michigan State University when he dropped out after what he calls "a highly transforming conversion to Christ." Within a few months, in 1975, he was in Seoul as a lay missionary, where he joined what has become Christianity's great success story in Asia. "Think of Korea's history," says Peters. "Conquest and occupation by other nations, poverty, civil war. It's fraught with suffering--suffering now experienced most acutely by North Koreans. This is the fertile soil in which...
When Peters arrived in South Korea, it was an authoritarian state. As part of his missionary work, he became involved in human-rights issues and was soon thrown out of the country for handing out leaflets that criticized the Seoul regime. After a new government came to power, he returned to Seoul in the late '80s and went back a third time in 1996. South Korea was by then a democratic, prosperous nation, but North Korea was in the midst of a horrific famine. "One night it just dawned on me. I wasn't here this time for South Korea...
...going beyond China. While she was in the labor camp, her mother had begun attending a church for ethnic Koreans. "I started to pray for her all the time there," her mother says. In February 2004, after Chinese police raided the church, Kim's mother and sister fled to Seoul, but Kim didn't follow. "I was frightened by what had happened to me the first time," she says. "I didn't want to try to get out and risk getting caught." For the next year, Kim lived a quiet life with her new husband, a Korean-Chinese translator...
...guide got out at a remote spot and started to walk. For two hours they trekked through the mountains until they met a car, which took them to Vientiane, where Hite, the activist once arrested by the Chinese, was waiting. On Dec. 24, Kim called her mother in Seoul, and Hite called Kim Sang Hun and Peters. A month later, Peters and Kim Sang Hun went to Thailand to meet the latest survivor of the journey along the underground railroad. When Kim Myong Suk saw the two men waiting for her, she grasped Kim Sang Hun's hand and stared...