Escape from North Korea : the untold story of Asia's underground railroad / Melanie Kirkpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkpatrick, Melanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with refugees--China.

Church work with refugees.

Missionaries--China.

Missionaries.

Missionaries--Korea (North).

Refugees--Government policy--China.

Refugees.

Refugees--Korea (North).

Repatriation--China.

Repatriation.

Korea (North)--Emigration and immigration.

Korea (North).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2014.

New York, New York : Encounter Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad.With a journalist's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans'

Contents:

Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Introduction; PartI: ESCAPE; Crossing the River; Look for a Building witha Cross on It; Defectors; PartII: IN HIDING; Brides for Sale; Half-and-Half Children; Siberia's Last Gulag; Old Soldiers; PartIII: ON THE RUN; Hunted; Jesus on the Border; The Journey out of China; partIV: STOCKHOLDERS; Let My People Go; Be the Voice; partV: LEARNING TO BE FREE; Almost Safe; Unification Dumplings; Left Behind; PartVI: THE FUTURE; Invading North Korea; Conclusion :One Free Korea; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9781594037320

1594037329