[USFK Forums] SEOUL TRAIN Featured by Bill Gerts/Rowan Scarborogh's Inside ~~ [WT]

[C. Y. Lee]

Uploaded by C. Y. Lee on Saturday, January 14, 2006

The article appearing here comes from an e-mail that I have received this morning from Ms. Suzanne Scholte, President of Defense Forum Foundation, which is self-explanatory. There is a photo, but I regret that I am unable to upload here as this space is not photo-friendly in its nature (C. Y. Lee).

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From: Skswm@aol.com View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:50:06 EST

Subject: SEOUL TRAIN Featured by Bill Gertz/Rowan Scarborough's Inside the Ring Column
To: Skswm@aol.com

Dear Friends:

The following is from today's WASHINGTON TIMES regarding Seoul Train's recent airing on PBS.
FYI
Suzanne

Inside the Ring
By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 13, 2006

'Seoul Train'

A new documentary on the plight of tens of thousands of North Korean
defectors, perhaps several hundred thousand, who have fled the communist
dictatorship into China and other countries aired recently on PBS stations.

The film, "Seoul Train," is a dramatic expose of the plight of North
Koreans and the handful of activists who are trying to help them reach
freedom. The documentary shows how the communist government of China is
helping the North Korean government and how the refugee arm of the United
Nations is ignoring the problem.

It is the first film to reveal the secret underground railroad of
courageous human rights activists who help North Koreans escape and reach
safe havens such as South Korea and Mongolia.

The documentary contains video of Chinese police arresting a group of
North Koreans who tried to reach freedom by entering a Japanese consulate in
China. The incident shows a 3-year-old girl, Han-mi, standing by in terror
as several Chinese police violently wrestled her mother to the ground to
prevent them from entering the consulate grounds.

Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, stated in the film that Chinese
authorities are "not only trying to catch the refugees but to systematically
break down the networks that help them in the hope that if you take out the
networks then there will no longer be refugees."

"Seoul Train" aired 9 p.m. nationwide, but PBS affiliates in the
Washington area showed the film at 1 a.m. on Dec. 23.

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