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Survival Strategy: the Human Face of North Korean Hunger

Survival Strategy: the Human Face of North Korean Hunger

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May 07, 2008
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A mass of jet-black hair accenting her thin, white face, she has the look of a telegenic cosmetics model in Seoul, an image hardly evocative of a tough officer in the North Korean People’s Army. And yet that was what she said she had been before illegally crossing into China by wading through the chilly water of the Tumen River one night last September.

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