North Korea defector learns to trust the stranger who saved him
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-15-2012 07:19 PM -0800
He managed to escape North Korea only to be held against his will in China. A Seoul-based fiction writer risked her comfortable life to help.
On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor of a small apartment without a stick of furniture. He ate fried chicken and pork belly, washed down with celebratory shots of soju from a paper cup, toasting the stranger he says saved his life.


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