After Grace Jo lost her father, grandmother and two younger brothers to starvation in North Korea, she decided to take drastic action: She slipped across the border into China because she wanted to survive. But Chinese officials caught her many times and forcibly repatriated her back to North Korea, a practice known as refoulment. It’s […]
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Joseph Kim is an assistant and Expert In Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

