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Release Date    2013.06.18
Air Date        2013.06.17
Genre           Documentary / Investigative

EPiSODE iNFO

North Korea has been called the Hermit Kingdom and for good reason.
Few people are allowed to travel in or out of the country and even
fewer will talk about life inside the country where dissent is met
with brutality, torture and death.

However, we do know that each year thousands of North Koreans risk
their lives to escape the brutal regime that runs the country of
their birth. Most of the defectors escape into China, and from there
they must undertake a dangerous journey to the country's southern
borders to escape into Laos, Thailand and ultimately, for many, on
to South Korea.

Next on Four Corners, a startling documentary tells the story of a
group of defectors that includes two young North Korean women,
Sook-ja and Yong-hee. They have paid a people smuggler, who goes by
the name "Dragon", to take them on the journey from northern to
southern China and on to freedom.

Filmmaker Ann Shin not only tells their story; she accompanies with
them undercover as they travel by bus, car and train; dodging
authorities who will arrest them and send them back to North Korea.
It's a dangerous trip, made all the more intense when we hear the
backgrounds of the smuggler and the people he is helping.

Their perilous journey reflects the reality of tens of thousands of
North Koreans currently hiding in China. Filming undercover, Ann
Shin gains intimate access to these three individuals in this fly on
the wall documentary, where she explores universal questions about
human rights, smuggling and the pursuit of freedom.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/06/17/3781254.htm

NOTE: The proper name of this doco is "The Defector - Escape From
North Korea". Four Corners has become a real pain like that, pinching
docos, renaming them and passing them off on 4C. Lame!

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