Fwd: "My Life in North Korea": A Testimony by Joseph, a North Korean Defector (Mar 28, 3:20-5pm)
Hyung-joon KIM
From: Hyung-joon KIM <khj...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:36 PM
Subject: "My Life in North Korea": A Testimony by Joseph, a North Korean Defector (Mar 28, 3:20-5pm)
To: Fletcher Social List- Official <fletche...@elist.tufts.edu>
"My Life in North Korea"
A Testimony by Joseph, a North Korean Defector
Date & Time: Mar 28 (Thursday) 3:20-5:00 PM
Place: Mugar 235, The Fletcher School
* Coffee & Donuts will be provided
This event is co-sponsored by
Fletcher North Korea Working Group, Asia Club, Liberty in North Korea(LiNK) Tufts Chapter
RSVP encouraged:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5875707399
Fletcher North Korea Working Group is pleased to host this meaningful event at The Fletcher School. Joseph will share his North Korean life story, the long journey to freedom, and his new life in the U.S. This event will show how the North Korean people suffer in North Korea and what Joseph went through to flee from North Korea in pursuit of a better life. This event will be off-the-record.
Joseph Kim is from North
Korea’s northern region. Growing up during the great famine of the 1990's, at
the age of 12, Joseph saw his father starve to death. After his father’s
funeral, Joseph’s mother disappeared, and then his sister left him, going to
China to search for food. In 2006, at
the age of 16, he decided make the dangerous treak out of North Korea, by
himself, to look for food and his sister. “In my mind, I thought death is
death, whether I die of starvation or from being caught by the North Korean
authorities.” While hiding in China, he met a generous Korean-Chinese woman who
protected and fed him until he found help from an NGO, Liberty in North Korea. LiNK
provided Joseph with a more stable shelter and later helped him escape to China. Only then was Joseph able to make it safely
to the U.S.
Joseph arrived in the
U.S. in 2007 as an "unaccompanied refugee minor." He was resettled under
the care of a loving foster, mother (Sharon Rose). He has since graduated high
school and is currently in college studying international business, while also
working part-time managing an educational center. He enjoys practicing Tae Kwon
Do, playing soccer, and studying history in his spare time. His greatest hope
is to one day find his sister.
His story was featured in
Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, and a recently published book
"Escape from North Korea."
Please email me(hyungj...@tufts.edu), if you have any question about this event.
Thank you.
Fletcher North Korea Working Group Leadership
David, Joon, and Sooyeon