Escape from North Korea (48 page)

foster homes

France

freedom: of choice; Christianity and; international measures of; motivation of escapees; of movement; of the press; of religion

Free North Korea Radio

Freikauf
program

Friendship Bridge, Yalu River

Fugitive Slave Act (“bloodhound law”)

Fundamental Protestantism, Asian converts

Gadhafi, Moammar

Garrett, Thomas

gendercide

Geneva Convention on the return of POWs

Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees

Gere, Richard

Germany

Gershman, Carl

Gobi Desert

Gomes, Aijalon Mahli

Good Friends for Peace, Human Rights, and Refugee Issues

government officials: bribes to; defection, price of; diplomats, murder of South Korean; family-reunion fees charged by; illegal transportation business; information technology targeting; in South Korean government

government security agents: China's policy on; posing as refugees; requests for
assistance

Graham, Billy

Graham, Ruth Bell

Hana Presbyterian Church

Hanawon
(Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees)

Han Chinese men

Han Song-hwa

Harris, Abram

Harris, Wesley

Hashimoto, Ryutaro

Havel, Vaclav

Hawk, David

Heilongjiang Province, China

Helping Hands Korea

Hiding
(film)

Hill, Christopher

Hoeryong, North Korea

Holocaust

homeless children (
kotjebi)

Hong, Adrian

Hong Kong

Horowitz, Michael

hostile class

Hu Jintao

hukou
(household registration card)

human rights: International Convention on Child; South Korean Commission on; South Korea–North relations and; Sunshine Policy; UN Council on; UN report on; US legislation regarding

Hutzfeld, Stefan

Hwang Gi-suk

Hwang Jang-yop

Hyon Mi

Hyun In-ae

Imjin River

imprisonment: Christian activists; of family members; of foster parents; of musicians; for radio ownership; of refugees in China; for religious beliefs, Russia; of rescuers; of returnees

Index of Economic Freedom

Indochinese refugees

infants: abortion of female; Korean-Chinese, murder of

informants

information: government suppression of; opening North Korea–283, 288–291, 295–96

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Zone

InterMedia Institute

international aid to North Korea

International Convention on the Rights of the Child

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

International Red Cross

Internet

Ishimaru, Jiro

Japan

Japanese abduction by North Korea agents

jazz music

Jo sisters

journalists

The Journal of Musan
(film)

juche
philosophy of self-reliance

Kang Su-jin

Kang Su-min

Kato, Hiroshi

KBS radio

Keller, Helen

Khan San-kho

Khrushchev, Nikita

kidnapping, North Korean practice of

Kim, Joseph Gwang-jin

Kim, Mike

Kim, Sam

Kim, Steven

Kim Cheol-woong

Kim Dae-jung, and administration

Kim Dong-shik

Kim Duk-hong–270

Kim Han-mee

Kim Heung-gwang

Kim Il Sung: birthday celebrations; Cambodian ties; deification of; friends; Graham invitation; personality cults; personal shopper for; religious beliefs

Kim Il Sung regime: crimes dictate; deification of;
juche
philosophy of self-reliance; Korean War and; media controls; religious repression; worker supply agreement.
See also
North Korea

Kim Il Sung University

Kim Jong Eun

Kim Jong Il: birthday celebrations; death of; deification of; hobbies; influences on; joke about; mentioned; nightmare; Park's letter to; personality cults;
Team America
(film) lampooning

Kim Jong Il regime: 1990s famine; abduction policy; famine (1990s); Hwang Jang-yop affair; information policy; Kim Dae-jung summit; luxury goods for; media controls; obedience requirement; religious repression; transgressor policy; warlike intention of.
See also
North Korea

Kim Jong-ryul

Kim Ju-song

Kim Sang-hun

Kim Seong-min

Kim Young-jin

Kim Young-sam

Koh, I. Henry

Koizumi, Junichiro

Koo Bum-hoe

Korea: Christianity in, historically,
43–44; Demilitarized Zone (DMZ); reunification

Korean-American churches

Korean-Americans: demographics; missionaries; political influence; refugee activism; reprisals against

Korean Assemblies of God

Korean Broadcasting System

Korean-Chinese children.
See
children, Korean-Chinese

Korean Church Coalition

Korean War: abduction of South Koreans; Armistice Agreement on POW return–19; families divided; immigrants silence on; refugee statistics; revisionist history.
See also
prisoners of war, South Korean

kotjebi
(fluttering swallow)

labor-through-reeducation camps

Lagon, Mark

Lankov, Andrei

Laotian border crossing

Lee, Heemoon

Lee, Helie

Lee, Keumsoon

Lee Byung-tae

Lee Jun-won

Lee Myung-bak, and administration

Lee Sun-hua

Lee Yeon-soon

Liberty in North Korea (LiNK)

Life Funds for North Korea

Lincoln, Abraham

Li Zhaoxing

loggers: asylum denied to; escape narratives; ideological influences on; refugee motivations; salary of; sanctuary found; selection process; statistics; working conditions

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
(Martin)

mail restrictions

malnutrition.
See also
food shortages

Mao Zedong

Martin, Bradley K.

media: hardware, trafficking in; opening North Korea; state-controlled

Mekong River

men: Chinese, population imbalance; fathers of Korean-Chinese children; forced marriages, former POWs; Han Chinese.
See also
loggers; prisoners of war

Metropolitan Club

missionaries: conversion successes; recruiting; returnee; safety of.
See also individuals
;
specific organizations

Moeller, Carl

Mo Jongryn

Mongolia

Mongolian border crossing

Mosher, Steven

Mount Kumgang family-reunion center

Mount Paektu

Nagorski, Zygmunt

National Endowment for Democracy

National Human Rights Commission, South Korea

Noland, Marcus

North Korea: churches in; collapse, possibility of; economy; foreign relations.
See individual countries
global policy recommendations; information invasion, effect of; international aid to; military; racism in; religious freedom in; societal controls; trade embargoes against; WMD and nuclear proliferation.
See also specific regimes

North Korea Freedom Coalition

North Korea Freedom Day/Week

North Korean Human Rights Act

North Korean Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS)

North Korea Today
(journal)

nuclear proliferation

Obama, Barack

Obama, Michelle

Olympic Games, Beijing

one-child policy

One Hundred Campaign

One Hundred Day Campaign

Open Doors International

Open Radio North Korea

Orascom

orphanages, for Korean-Chinese children

Panetta, Leon

Park, Kevin

Park, Robert

Park Sun-young

patriarchal society

Peters, Tim

Philadelphia Vigilance Committee

Philippine-Americans

political prisoners

Pomnyun Sunim

postal service

Presbyterian Church in America

Presbyterian Church USA

prisoners of war: American; North Korean, repatriated

prisoners of war, South Korean: asylum denied; former, detained in North Korea; international agreements for return of; narratives of; repatriated, statistics; rescue of; rescuer motivations; statistics;
stories of; transfer to Soviet prison camps; vetting

prisons: conditions; detention centers; labor-through-reeducation camps; political (
kwan li so
).
See also
imprisonment

professional classes, information technology targeting

Putin, Vladimir

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

racism

Radio Free Asia

Radio Free Chosun

Radio Free Europe

radio hotline

Radio Liberty

radio ownership

radio stations: refugee-run; state controls

red noodles

Refugee Convention

refugee families: divided by war; left behind; phone calls to/ contact with/news via; remittance money to; retribution against; reuniting

refugee motivations: economic; fear; freedom; freedom of choice; hunger; ideological

refugees: 1990s increase in; abduction by North Korea agents; adjustment and integration; appearance/ physical condition; asylum denied; asylum provided to; conversion to Christianity; debriefing; defined; demographics; destination country, choice of; global policy recommendations on; informants; international agreements on; optimism of; resettlement model; slaves, inspiration of; state security agents; status of, determining; training for success; train travel instructions; vetting.
See also
defectors; escape;
individual countries

refugee statistics: in China; famine years; in Japan; Korean War; loggers; rescue successes; in the United States

religious freedom: China; Hong Kong; Korea, historically; North Korea; US Commission on

remittance money

Reporters Without Borders

rescue funding
See also
escape: costs

rescuers: budgets, bribes in; imprisonment of; motivations of; operational knowledge of individual; plastic surgery; recruiting; retribution against; roles

returnees: abducted; missionary; narratives of; One Hundred Day Campaign and; suicide of

returnees, consequences to: imprisonment, torture, death; women

reunification: planning for, recommendations; possibility of

Revere, Evans

Ri Hyon-ok

Rimjin-gang
magazine

Robertson, Phil

Roh Moo-hyun administration

Romania

Rosett, Claudia

Royce, Ed

Rumsfeld, Donald

Russia

Russia–North Korea relations

Russia–South Korea relations

Schindler, Oskar

Schindler's List

Scholte, Suzanne

Sea of Japan (East Sea)

Sedney, David

Seo family

Seoul Peace Prize

Seoul USA

Seo Won-kyong

Settlement Support Center for North Korean Refugees (
Hanawon
)

sexism

sex workers

Shenyang Six

Sihanouk, Norodom

Sinuiju, North Korea

slaves: escape narratives; runaway, consequences for.
See also
loggers

social media

Song, Hannah

Song Jong-hun

Song Jong-nam

Son Gyeong-ju

South Korea: asylum denied by; economy; military; missionaries; sanctuary in

South Korea, refugee assistance: educational; financial

South Korea, refugees in: adjustment and integration; appearance; debriefing; employment opportunities; entrepreneurs; stereotypes of/discrimination; training for success

South Korea–China relations: diplomatic ties; normalization; POW issue; repatriation policy,
; trade

South Korea–North relations: 2010 military attack; Hanoi rescue; human rights abuses; Kim Dae-jung summit; loggers; POW issue; Sunshine Policy; US joint military exercises

South Koreans: abduction by North Korea agents; interest in the North

South Korea–Russia relations

South Korea–United States relations

South Korea–Vietnam relations

Soviet Jews, movement to free

Soviet Union

Soviet Union–North Korea relations

Stalin, Joseph

State Department, US

Steel, Michelle Park

Steel, Shawn

Still, William

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

student activism

student defectors

students, information restrictions for

Sung, Donald

Sunshine Policy

Team America
(film)

technology: balloon drops; evangelization using; opening North Korea; refugee activism and; targeting the elite; underground railroad and

television

Thailand

thirty-eighth parallel

Thompson, John 318 Partners

Tiananmen Square