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Author Kirkpatrick, Melanie.

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

Imprint New York ; London : Encounter Books, ©2012.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  951.9305 KIRKPATRICK    DUE 04-01-24
Description xi, 350 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Note Map on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-336) and index.
Contents "I am a man among men" -- Escape. Crossing the river -- Look for a building with a cross on it -- Defectors -- In hiding. Brides for sale -- Half-and-half children -- Siberia's last gulag -- Old soldiers -- Hunted. Hunted -- Jesus on the border -- The journey out of China -- Stockholders. Let my people go -- Be the voice -- Learning to be free. Almost safe -- Unification dumplings -- Left behind -- The future. Invading North Korea -- Conclusion: One free Korea.
Summary Chronicles the harrowing stories of people who have successfully escaped North Korea, via first China then Southeast Asia or Mongolia and finally to South Korea, the United States and other free countries.
Subject Church work with refugees -- China.
Church work with refugees -- Korea (North)
Noncitizens -- China.
Missionaries -- China.
Missionaries -- Korea (North)
Refugees -- Government policy -- China.
Refugees -- Korea (North)
Repatriation -- China.
Repatriation -- Korea (North)
Korea (North) -- Emigration and immigration.
Illegal immigration -- China.
Noncitizens -- China.
Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
Repatriation. (OCoLC)fst01094786
Missionaries. (OCoLC)fst01023720
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Korea (North) (OCoLC)fst01214151
Church work with refugees. (OCoLC)fst00861088
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Refugees -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01092811
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- China.
ISBN 9781594036330 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1594036330 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Standard No. 7573877
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