Authors: Melanie Kirkpatrick

Escape from North Korea (43 page)

BOOK: Escape from North Korea

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American missionary Tim Peters in China with children who are half North Korean and half Chinese. (Courtesy of Helping Hands Korea)

Pastor Phillip Buck of Seattle wins the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize for his work helping North Koreans escape from China. (Jonathan Barth/Courtesy of the Train Foundation)

The Korean Church Coalition rallies in support of freedom for North Korea in front of the U.S. Capitol in July 2011. (Courtesy of Maria Kim)

American activist Suzanne Scholte addresses the North Korea People's Liberation Front, a Seoul-based organization of more than one hundred former North Korean soldiers who vow to overthrow the Kim family regime and reunify the Korean Peninsula. Scholte was named an honorary general. (Henry Song/ Courtesy of Defense Forum Foundation)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama stand with Dr. Lee Ae-ran, an escapee from North Korea who was honored with an International Woman of Courage Award by the U.S. State Department in 2010. (U.S. Department of State)

Three Liberty in North Korea campus spokesmenâStefan Hutzfeld, Angel Chung Cutno, and Lindsay Capehartâstand in front of the van that took them up and down the Eastern Seaboard in the fall of 2010. (Courtesy of the author)

Kim Seong-min in the newsroom of Free North Korea Radio, under a sign that proclaims the radio's motto: “Toward freedom! Toward democracy! Toward reunification!” (Courtesy of the author)

Yoo Chul-min, a ten-year-old North Korean boy who fled to China, died of exposure in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia after walking across the Chinese border. (Courtesy of Helping Hands Korea)

Yoo Chul-min's father, Yoo Sang-jun, prays at his son's grave in Mongolia. (Courtesy of Helping Hands Korea)

Youn Mi-rang, director-general of Hanawan, the resettlement center for North Korean refugees, meets with the author in Youn's office outside Seoul. (Courtesy of the author)