Escaping from North Korea into China

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Melanie Kirkpatrick, They Were the Lucky Ones. Escaping from North Korea is just the start. China’s policy is to track down, arrest and repatriate refugees attempting to hide there. Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2015.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bo ... on-earth-1436828224

Quote: In North Korea, "Mr Kim’s daily existence was focused on food—working for it, begging for it, stealing it. * * * Mr Kim’s descriptions of starvation are searing. Dogs disappear. Reports of cannibalism abound. * * * [Kim:] ‘a complete absence of authority of any kind.’ * * * In China, Mr Kim’s luck turns. A stranger advises him that Christians help North Koreans * * * His Chinese church friends fed and sheltered him for a year—all the while risking arrest and imprisonment for the crime of helping a North Korean. They eventually put him in touch with a California-based rescue organization called Liberty in North Korea, which helped him reach the US.

Note:
(a) This is a book review on two memoirs;
(i) Joseph Kim, Under the Same Sky. From starvation in North Korea to salvation in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
(ii) Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names; A North Korean defector's story. William Collins, 2015.

* HarperCollins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins#Imprints
(headquarters NYC; Parent company  News Corp; William Collins founded William Collins, Sons  in 1819; section 3 Imprints: "On Feb 8, 2013, it was announced that some parts of the Collins non-fiction imprint would be merged with the HarperPress imprint to form the new William Collins imprint)

(b) The last four paragraphs is about Ms Lee’s book.