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...Tae Jin, president of a Seoul-based organization called the North Korean Gulag Shutdown Movement, spent four years in Yodok for trying to escape the country. "I was always hungry and cold," he says, recalling life in the camp. He remembers scavenging for dead rodents and snakes to eat. "When I found one, that would be a good day," he says. At his camp, it "was normal for the prison guards to be cruel. No one had hope or cared about anything," says Kim, who was finally released. The camps' pervasive sense of hopelessness is a common theme woven through...
...Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad—Kim trained part-time with Tae Kwon Do instructors in order to get a visa to live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become the subject of his book. “You can be imprisoned in China for simply feeding a North Korean refugee,” Kim said...
...emblematic scene in Kim Tae-kyun’s film “Crossing,” the young protagonist Joon runs after the truck that is carrying away his dead mother. As he struggles and fails to catch up to the moving vehicle, he begins to pant. His shoes are in tatters; the afternoon sun hangs over a dusty North Korean landscape. This scene is one of many that exemplify the genuinely sad but wholly unoriginal feel that characterizes much of “Crossing.” The movie provides an emotional and vivid portrayal of the tragedies...
...Sounds Like...Tae Kwon Do Distressed by the recent increase in crime? Take these self defense lessons to become a competent practitioner, if not master, of Moo Doe. Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7:00 p.m. New England School of Oom Yung Doe, 576 Washington St., Brighton. Free. 2) Calling Indie Wannabes The Grammy-nominated rockers of Death Cab for Cutie will return to Boston after playing to a full house at the same venue back in 2006. Friday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Agganis Arena, Boston University. $33.50. 3) Rock the Vote, Literally Politics is for hipsters! McCain watches...
...ties contingent on progress in denuclearization. If Kim completely abandons all of his nuclear programs, Lee says he'll institute a vast aid package aimed at tripling North Korea's annual per capita gross national income to $3,000. (South Korea's is more than $20,000.) Says Kim Tae Hyo, Lee's secretary for national strategy: "Big-scale inter-Korean projects will be linked to the progress of the six-party talks...