jennifer he esposito have in >> you have the highest case i have ever seen. >> this is fox files. >> december 28, 2011. as korea laid to list its supreme leader, kim jong-il. the world got a rare glimpse inside the sealed off nation. hoytal thongs of north koreans lined the route, but it's unclear if the wailing was genuine or motivated by fear. >> the people probably understand what would happen if they didn't show sufficient grief. >> much of this was forced. the state wanted them to behave this way. >> and the state was working overtime in the days after kim jong-il's death. they were ensuring that north koreans did not deviate from the ideology and behavior. >> north korea is the single most closed and repressed society arguely in human history. >> every is monitored. there's a fear of the black americamer that will show up and take you off. >> you say there are tens of thousands of christians in north core use? >> there is an underground church. it's ranked the most persecuted church in the world. >> the cult of personality established in north korea is probably unlike anything we saw in the 20th century. >> most important is creating a new cult of personality around this man, kim week we don't know old he is. we assume in his 20s but that's never been confirmed. >> he believes to have studied in switzerland. >> what is known is he now commands the world's fourth large e army with 1.1 million soldiers and awe nuclear arsenal with six bombs, although the population act with blind devotion, some people inside the country are beginning to show unprecedented dissent. >> we have this exodus of north koreans. >> the underground railroad is a network of safe houses and secret routes helping north koreans get out. this is extremely dangerous among christian missionaries. >> in a fox tile exclusive we tracked down one man who risked everything to escape with his family. >> how scared were you when you were crossing the border? >> i knew in order to live i had to cross the river and get to the other side. >> they know when they leave north korea they and their families are risking death. >> korea has been a nation divided by barbed wire, armies, and an unresolved war, stretching back to the enof world war ii. >> while the americans took control of the south, the soviet union established the communist north in 1945. under the leadership of a 33-year-old radical named kim il-sung. >> kim il-sung was one of the most dominant totalitarian dictators in the 20th century. >> prefer mitch learner is the director of studies. >> north korea's first leader was born april 15, 1912. the same day the titanic was sinking. >> kim il-sung was a christian. his mother and father took him to church. >> melanie fitzpatrick covered korea. >> kim il-sung went to church. >> very hard to believe. >> as a young men. >> there were many, men christians in korea, and pyongyang was known as the jerusalem of the east. >> by 1948 appointed head of the worker's party. >> over the next decade, the cult of personality established around kim il-sung rivaled any of the 20th century. >> they're nothing compared to what kim il-sung did. >> in 1955. the north korean government started its bizarre cult-like ideology. >> roughly translates into the national identity, and what it basically says is the north korean people are almost a superior race. and they need to determine the future of their country, and advance their socialist revolution on their own. we have the tower, huge white monument with one brick in the monument to symbol every day of the life of kim il-sung. there are two education centers. the think tank. everything revolved around imbetting the society. >> in 1994 after decades spent enslaving the north korean people, kim il-sung dies. >> there was genuine grieving and people look at him as almost a supernatural being. >> his successor would try to become god like. >> he was born to his first wife kim jong-il was said to have been born on the sake credit mountain and this is where, by korean legends,. >> by the earl 1980s, it seems that he had carved out a significant niche in the power structure. >> kim jong-il was a character of fun because he was short and had the hair and elevator shoes but he was a dictator. >> expensive tastes. >> o. reported he liked american culture. >> he loved american film and supposedly had a library of many thousands of films. he once had a south korean act tress, his favorite south korean actress, abducted. she was kidnapped from a beach in hong kong and taken to north korea and required to become basically his actress slave. >> had a history of kidnapping people and that's how they went about that. >> chicago coe -- native mike kim's' family felt the terror of the reg scream. >> my mom and others in my family told me about how, during the korean war, the north koreans came across the border into south korea ask they were looking for people that could help them build their infrastructure. so they took him into north korea. i often ask my grandmother about the story and it's difficult for her to talk about. she never heard from or seen her brother since. >> the country has been a living hell for millions. >> the famine of the late 1990s killed more than a tenth of the population of north korea. >> we have to make two to three million north koreans starve. >> we hear stories of people still starving to death, eating tree bark to survive, and the worst case, the stories of cannibalism. >> it had gotten better and worse and better and worse since then but it's always been terrible. >> the dynasty continues today with the third kim, kim kim kim jong un, the spitting image of his grandfather. >> one of his first acts as a shoot to kill order. >> he is terrified of the results. >> if you are sent back from china to north korea, what could happen to you? 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>> it's 6,000 miles running from north korea through china through southeast asia. >> it's a network of safe houses and secret groups. >> there are contacts along this entire root to help and to aid north koreans. >> some within your network some within another network that is willing to help, and you know people in those cities that are willing to risk housing the north koreans. >> mike founded crossing borders a christian organization devoted to helping north korean refugees. this man whom we will call pong is currently the organization's director. >> why are you in this? >> i help north korean people in china. it's illegal for any one to even feed a north korean refugee. >> if your identity was revealed? >> i could go to jail and more importantly the people that are working for us in china would go to jail and north koreans could be executed. we work threw true the under gr church in china we consider ourselves the first link to the under ground railroad. >> when i would first meet a north korean they would come to our shelter they would be scared out of their minds. they would sit as far away from me at the other end of the room as possible. >> in 2008 crossing borders helped this man a 46-year-old north korean detector who fled his country. we agreed not to say his name. >> i had to flee because i helped others from the government. that is a political crime. >> getting out of north korea has the first hurdle. how do they do that? >> one is you can pay for bribes, boerldrder guards on th north korean and china side. the other way during the winter the river freezes over. people walk across the ice. >> i went over in broad daylight my daughter another person and myself. we went to the river and pretended to wash our faces and escaped over the narrowest part. >> he interviewed a detector in his small apartment in seoul, south korea. >> how scared were you when you were crossing the border? >> i knew in order to live i had to cross the river and get to the other side. as soon as i got over the first thought that popped into my head was oh, yes, i am alive. >> once you cross from north korea into china it's not like the doors have been flung open for these people. there are dangers in china, too. >> they have zero tolerance policy toward north koreans in china. >> not only the police but china has seasons where they announce to their citizens along the borders to report north korean people to them so they can earn money. >> if you were sent back from china into north korea what could happen to you? >> committed treason by leaving the country and the punishment is death. >> his wife and second daughter crossed over into china almost a year later. >> we had an elder leader she called a local church. >> what happens to family members in north korea if it is discovered one of their family members has managed to escape successfully. >> their families would suffer. >> they will face most brutal torture right out of world war ii concentration camps. >> befoafter we fled my brotherd sisters and in-laws were taken to the intelligence officer interrogated. my brother in law was beaten so severely he is practically in a wheelchair. >> with the help they were hidden in northern china preparing to escape from that country. in august 2009 they boarded a train heading south with strict instructions. >> thoeld us we could not take anything especially not a cell phone. if you are captured they will be able to trace all of the numbers track down the people who helped you. >> the family spent a week on the train heading toward loose. but -- laos. but to get into china they had to cross the border on foot. >> it is a tough hike. >> we arrived at the embassy though gave us temporary passports to get to seoul. >> the whole family flew to south korea. the detectors knew life after a year and a half on the road to freedom had begun. >> when you arrive at international airport and step on south korean soil for the first time what was your thought? 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>> when i was a teenager i had problems with getting colds and infections, sinus infections all of the time. so much so that i was hospitalized with monday no. >> she would suffer and as a family we would say, okay, she is sick again. >> susan is jennifer's older sister. >> at a young age she was suffering with stomach issues. she had mood swings, she had anxiety. no answers. >> how many tests? how many doctors visits are we talking about? hundreds? thousands? >> i couldn't guess the amount between colonoscopies and enemas. >> did it take a toll on you and your family? >> yes. we didn't have an understanding of it because none of the doctors she had gone to kaep came up with a proper diagnosis. >> the money i have spent in trying to make people listen, and i would sit with therapists over and over but every time they would give me a prozac or xanax. i would say that's not it. there is something else going on. >> as her career soared jennifer still struggled with her health. it was after 19 long agonizing years a doctor finally gave her an accurate diagnosis. >> i was so ill i could barely walk in there. i think she really saw something two-days after that she had called and said, celiac's disease. you have the highest case i have ever seen. i don't know how you are living like this. i had no idea what she was talking about. >> what is it? >> it is an auto immune disease linked diabetes or roum toyed arthritis. >> she swe sat down with the dir of center for celiac research at university of maryland. their studies show that one percent of the population or one in 133 people in the united states have the disease. only a small fraction know they have it. >> we don't know what makes people sick with diabetes or ms but it is undisputable is the auto immune process in people with celiac's disease. >> what is gluten. that's what we hear about most. >> it is the most abundant in specific grains like wheat, rye and barley. we are notable to completely digest this. that is why it creates so many problems. >> when you have celiac's disease it damaged or kills the villi the villi around the small intestines. it takes the nutrients from the food. you are starving yourself and not absorbing nutrients. you have a leaky gut which basically is to put it small holes in the gut where when i eat and when i digest anything that slips through those holes and goes into the bloodstream my auto immune system -- it feels as if it is getting attacked so it attacks it. >> where is the biggest source of gluten in our diet comes from? >> biggest source, bread, pasta, pizza, beer, cookies, bagels. these are the obvious source. the other thing that makes it even more complicated is gluten is used as a filler. it is a wonderful natural filler you can mix in prepacked foods. >> you bind it together. >> wheat gluten. >> it is great stuff. but your body can't tolerate it. >> the baby didn't have colic. he had celiac disease? >> besides celiac disease there are two other forms one is a gluten wheat allergy the other is newer and known as gluten sensitivity. it also causes the immune system to react and create problems. >> the wheatolgy there's a blood test there's a simple screening test that is very very good to identify gluten sensitivity. >> do you think jennifer's case got to that place where they spent years trying to find a diagnosis. >> even when she was diagnosed going gluten free it took much longer than expected to go back to a more acceptable life. her body took a major hit. >> here she is this successful actress in terms of stereotyping, why don't y you no eat this? why are you feeling faint? the women's body is collapsing from the inside out. >> that's right. she had a serious type for a young woman in this kind of business. you are really too finicky or you are exaggerating and so on and so forth. >> what are the symptoms? if someone has xyz you demand your doctor check you for celiac's disease. >> the symptoms can go from bloating to diarrhea, constipation to no stomach issues which is tricky for most people. i say any time you are feeling sur mountable feeling of exhaustion there's something going on. if you think that there is a possibility that you have it you want to be safer rather than sorry. you need to get a proper diagnosis, because this left undiagnosed like i have been for years creates havoc, the place i am in now. >> today with more people being diagnosed with celiac disease the market for gluten free products has exploded. >> if you look at the market north america in 2002 the market was very limited. it was roughly $100 million. >> this year alone is valued at $4.2 billion. a gluten free lifestyle isn't cheap. >> i do not leave the health food market with under $100 and i probably go food shopping 3 or 4 times a week. >> that's just for you. >> that's just for me. that's just for me. that's fresh fruit and vegetables. i always buy organic. this is expensive. >> mock files when jennifer's battle with celiac disease made headlines. what do the hockey player and banana baby of the >> hi. >> you know, i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. >> announcer: we all love a good deal during the holidays, especially identity thieves. they can open an account in your name and go on a serious spending spree. >> do you have cufflinks? 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[ female announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >> it was like someone took a veil off my face. >> mickey redmond is no stranger to pain. he won two stanley cups playing for the montreal canadiens and ended his career as a top goal scorer for the detroit red wings. >> the red wings put a lot of pressure on redmond. he is the voice for hockey fox 2k50e9. >> when were you finally diagnosed with celiac? >> i remember going to many, many different doctors. at the time we are talking early 70s. they would say you have got this, this or this or this over here. i said well what is this over here? that was we don't know. as it turns out 20-years later around 1994 i got diagnosed with celiac. >> going back to when you were younger in your 20s you had the symptoms what was going on? >> the lifestyle we led as professional athletes in those days wasn't exactly a lifestyle that would be copyed by a lot of people or should be. there was cigarettes involved and few beers and you are not supposed so feel real good when you do stuff like that. as a result you get used to feeling poorly. >> what clued you in, though? this is a little bit beyond oh sure i am a hockey player we are drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. >> the disease began to really take a hold of me. i broke out -- you get really bad and sensitive to it. i was sleeping a lot. >> as he experienced early on gluten is found in many other products besides food. >> with celiac everything that goes into your mouth and is ingested but you have to worry about mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo all of those things. i remember six months later standing in the bathroom still getting sick wondering i am clean as a wiles. might have been a bottle of lister reason or something like that. i went, wow. wait a minute. the alcohol or whatever is in it depends on the source and all that. >> just like mickey jennifer is always careful with what she eats which for her is even more challenging. fox files accompanied her on a visit with her doctor. >> we are going to go over your oral gees in addition to the celac, gluten and dairy. we have almonds, beef, chocolate, egg yolk, bananas, broccoli, peanuts, onions, cod fish, soybeans and chicken in addition to the barley rye oats and wheat and all of the other gluten grades. >> it is ridiculous. >> as a result she is constantly creating her own gluten free recipes. >> look at these babies. >> jennifer's cookies. >> your chocolate chip cookies. >> i love these cookies. i swear to god. >> well done. >> thank you. >> should we do the cookie dance. >> i know, i know. >> after i make some i am like, whoa. i am serious. >> someone said you can never have this for the rest of your life? >> i would be done. >> in a weird twist of fate little did they know they had something common with this won. >> i was born in 1936 and i came to the hospital when i was 9 months old. >> meet barbara hudson also known as a banana baby. during the 1930s she was one of the first reported cases at the university of maryland where they treated children with the mysterious symptoms that we now know as celiac disease. >> do you remember the symptoms your mother told you what was happening to you? >> evidently i had was not gain. so then they told my mother to bring me down to the university hospital to drop me off don't come see her for six weeks. but i said for over 9 months and the hospital became my home. >> after you left the hospital, once they leased you what diet did they put you on? >> baked bananas and bavarian buttermilk. >> the routine was she would bake 3 bananas a day. i would eat one for breakfast one for lunch and one banana for dinner. >> how long did you stay on this banana diet? >> for about two years then the pediatrician said he thought we could add other foods to my diet. he would add a different food each week. and finally at the age of 6 i had my first ice cream and milk. a >> what did you think? >> i thought it was wonderful. >> why bananas? >> bausz they contain all of the salt, the nutrients and some protein that allows you to survive. >> jennifer, mickey and barbara have each shed light on the mystery of celiac disease. >> i tell you my day has been consumed with bringing information -- between a blog, jennifer's voice.org, jennifer foundation on celiac education everything i do to bring awareness. >> i do spend a lot of time talking to people on the phone about it. i speak to team about it. i am more than happy to do that to help them get through the early stages of this. especially younger kids. >> if there is a good gluten free recipe i will pass it on to somebody else with celiac disease so they can have something fun to eat as well as being good for them. >> jennifer's battle with blue bloods makes headlines. bloods makes headlines. our exclusive with remember when you said men are superior drivers? yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this... 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