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Escape from North Korea

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Oct 16
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 16

Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick, Encounter Books, 2012. 


North Koreans Escaping China

The author describes how Christian volunteers help North Koreans who have crossed the Yalu River into China. Heilongqiang, Jilin, Liaoning. There are two million ethnic Koreans in these three Chinese provinces. In Jilin: Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture.China to: Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia. Chinese prosperity attracts NKs. Christian churches in China rescue NK defectors.

Christianity is banned in NK.


Organizations

Several organizations are trying to rescue North Koreans:

  • Free North Korea Radio (Seoul).

  • Helping Hands Korea, founded by Tim Peters in 1996

  • Liberty in North Korea (non-sectarian)

  • Crossing Borders (Christian)

  • Underground Railroad, safe houses.

  • 318 Partners (Steven Kim, named for Chinese criminal law 318)

  • North Korean Intellectuals Solidarity

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