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Escape from poverty
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/09/2017
» It was a cold winter night when Ji Seong-ho lost both of his left limbs. He was trying to jump onto a moving freight train to steal coal being transported from North Korea to China. He slipped on the snow and tumbled under the wheels of the carriage.
Escape from North Korea
Asia focus, Alexi Demetriadi, Published on 24/07/2017
» 'I left my home in North Korea in August 2014," Joon Hee recalls. A North Korean defector who has been living and working in Seoul for almost three years, she is like the hundreds of others who make the journey through China to South Korea, seeking a better life in the south.