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Organizations like crossing borders will be there to help. >> what does your faith mean to what you are doing in china? a oo it has everything to do wh with what we do. we believe god has created everyone equal and god created me just the same as god created the north korean refugee. >> we have been able to change lives and i would do it all over again. it is very rewarding. >> many kri koreans look forward to a future where their country is unified. >> absolutely. the vast majority of north kor...

Organizations like crossing borders will be there to help. >> what does your faith mean to what you are doing in china? a oo it has everything to do wh with what we do. we believe god has created everyone equal and god created me just the same as god created the north korean refugee. >> we have been able to change lives and i would do it all over again. it is very rewarding. >> many kri koreans look forward to a future where their country is unified. >> absolutely. the vast majority of north kor...

Organizations like crossing borders will be there to help. >> what does your faith mean to what you are doing in china? a oo it has everything to do wh with what we do. we believe god has created everyone equal and god created me just the same as god created the north korean refugee. >> we have been able to change lives and i would do it all over again. it is very rewarding. >> many kri koreans look forward to a future where their country is unified. >> absolutely. the vast majority of north kor...

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 ...

Invested in the repression of this society. >> it appears kim jong-un has urged some of his fathers generals. this man was often seen along side the new leader and then mysteriously fired from all of his duties in july of 2012. other powerful figures remain. another seen at kim jong-ils funeral is the general secretary of the korean workers party. hes the man who over saw the development of north koreas nuclear bomb. >> there has been very little indication that he is willing to open the country...

Purged some of his fathers generals. this man was often seen along side the new leader and then mysteriously fired from all his duties in jewel o july of 2012. other powerful figures remain. this man seen here at tim jon kg ils funeral is the secretary of the working party. he oversaw the development of northlo koreas nuclear bomb. >> theres been very little indication that hes willing to open the country up. he certainly hasnt stopped the countrys nuclear or missile program, and the crackdown o...

Could happen to you? >> you committed treason by leaving the country, and the punishment isin death. >> the defectors wife and second daughter crossed the border into china almost a year later. we met an elderly woman and she called a local christian church. >> what happens to family members in north korea if it is discovered that one of their family members has managed to escape successfully? >> their families would suffer. >> they face the most brutal torture really right out of world war ii c...

Running from north korea through china, through southeast asia. >> its a network of safe houses and secret routes. >> there are contacts along this entire route to help and to aid north koreans. >> there are 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. >> mikoue founded crossing borders, a christian organization devoted to helping north korean refugees. this man whom we will ...

>> we work through the underground church in china. we consider ourselves the first link of the underground railroad. >> when i would first meet a north korean and they would come into our shelter, they would be scared out of their minds. they would sit as far away from me on the other end of the room as possible. >> in 2008 crossing borders helped this man, a 46-year-old north korean defector who fled his country. weve agreed not to reveal his name. >> i had to flee because i helped some south ...

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 th...