North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho honored with human rights award
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North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho, who escaped his country after losing his limbs, was honored with a South Korean human rights award on Monday. File Photo by Zach Gibson/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 22 (UPI) A North Korean defector who lost an arm and a leg while foraging for food was conferred a human rights award in the South.
Ji Seong-ho, 38, was honored for his work on advancing North Korean human rights with the Han Won-chae Human Rights Award, Seoul Shinmun reported Monday. The prize is named after a North Korean defector who was forcibly repatriated after he attempted to flee the regime with his wife and three children. Han, born in 1943, died by torture in 2000, the report said.