Escape from North Korea - North Korea
Aug 2007So many people have defected from North Korea that the government is now building a wall along the Chinese border. This exclusive report follows one family's dangerous exodus.At a safe house in China, a brother and sister collapse into each other arms. For months, 'Uncle Jung' has been trying to smuggle his sister and her family out of North Korea. Today, they crossed the Tumen river into China. "We wanted to wait for darkness but were afraid the guards would find us", explains Park Myong Kwan. "So we just jumped into the river". One risky journey may have ended for the Park family but another is just beginning. China regularly returns refugees to North Korea where they face almost certain execution. In contrast, Thailand deports immigrants to South Korea. Over the next week, the Parks will travel by any means possible to the Lao border, a journey of 4,000 miles. They don't speak Chinese and don't have any documents. "We feel like we're lying on a chopping board right now", confides Park Myong Kwan. "It's like we're gambling but the stakes are our lives". But for them, the gamble pays off. They make it to Thailand before being arrested. In a few months, they will be flown to South Korea, where they can build a new life.
Canal: News & Politics
Añadido: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Autor: journeymanpictures
Duración: 22:54
Puntuación: 4.84
Reproducciones: 114603
Etiquetas: border chinese famine Journeyman Korea North Pictures smuggle
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powkerface (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The daughter is really pretty :)
LAKOPUNJABI (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
they made it all the way down to thailand where they get caught from north korea to china to laos then to thailand.they are one top family for north korean standards!
seven47katana (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
wow some times i dont know that i live in a lot better country and eat better food and some times i dont appreciate what i have and this ppl dont even have food i learn some thing today to appreciate what i have and do any thing to get better life any where i live :)
ShutterBug717 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Why won't Kim Jong Ill die already? Maybe after his death there could be a chance of One Korea. The treatment the N. Koreans receive is wrong. Free North Korea!
hakissej (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
touching story what is the piano song playing at the end?its beautiful
ejr23 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
May I join the cause? We'll take our case across the globe. Storm the DMZ with 50,000,000 armed men/women with the latest weaponry, tanks, howitzers, etc. Demand the total abolishment of the regime and its oppressive stance or else face our wrath!
homeostatic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You silly people screaming about bankers—it's one thing to be an exploitative capitalist; another thing to systematically deprive every individual of their choices and expression through a ruthless police state. Get some perspective! What I want to know has more to do with how this film was shot. I do not doubt that the film reflects a NK refugee experience, however WHO is the cameraman and why are they also detained by Thai police. Also, this would have been much better if they showed SK.
jdubincali (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You are describing mass brain washing. Bankers are funding both sides of the border. Divide and conquer. Enslave nations through debt and war. It's an old trick.
jdubincali (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The real culprits of the brutal governments are banking institutions that are owned by private family members mostly in Europe. They work in secret and corporation as cover. They are named The World Bank and the IMF. They run the USA, not the congress or the president. Most of all the governments are ruled by banking and banking is owned by royalty and monarchs.
drodope (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
its so crazy cuz what the hell do the rich people there or politicans or whatever do whats the purpose what do they do.. its erie
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