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Date : November 30, 2015
MEET A REAL LIFE HERO OF NORTH KOREA
   http://www.globalo.com/2015/11/20/meet-a-real-life-hero-of-north-korea [625]



The Korean citizen Kim Young Hwan has been helping North Koreans to learn the notion of democracy and human rights, using China as a base of operation, so that together they can gain the capacity to build up a civil society in North Korea.

His story reads like a espionage thriller – a tale of two Koreas, changed allegiances, torture and fear.

Once Upon a time, Kim Young Hwan was one of South Koreas best-known student activists. During this time, in the wild 80s, he was tortured by his own government for supporting its archenemy, North Korea- This is the same Government who protects him today.

Back in the 80s, North Korea considered Mr. Kim as such an asset that it smuggled him out of South Korea for a meeting with the North`s founder. Soon after his meeting he had a change of heart and renounced the Communist police state. Since then he has been working tireless to help North Koreans to build an underground pro-democracy movement, using the border between the North and its ally China as his base of operations.

[Srouce: Globalo.com]






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