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No Christmas Presents for North Korean Refugees?
While we enjoy our rich and exciting Christmas holidays, most North Koreans live in constant hunger.
As we know, it’s easy to be generous with those nearest us. Far away, on the other side of the world, however, there are many tragic stories of starvation and fear.
Can You Help Us Rescue Two NK Refugees and a Baby?
You are invited to join our rescue mission!
Rescuing refugees is a slow, careful process. It can’t be done in a wholesale manner so each mission is a one-of-a-kind effort. Over the years, LFNKR has helped more than 200 North Korean refugees escape to safe destinations where they have been able to start new lives. Just in September and October of this year alone, we successfully rescued a total of 5 North Korean refugees.
And now, we have begun another rescue mission. The current rescue is to help human trafficking victims: one is a 20-year-old woman, K.S. and her baby, who was born in July 2016. The other is a 33-year-old woman, Y.H.
Freed from Bondage
LFNKR is glad to report that, on Oct. 2, Kim Un-suk (not her real name), a North Korean woman, age 30, reached a safe place where she no longer has to fear repatriation.
Three years ago, Un-suk was sold by a human trafficker to a Chinese man in Harbin. He and his whole family kept her under constant watch to prevent her running away. She was not allowed to go out of his house, not allowed to do anything (except making a baby). She was utterly confined and given no freedom. She said she felt like a bird held in a cage.
LFNKR rescue staff had to patiently wait for the right moment to rescue the mother and her baby, and to lead them to a safe place. Mother and child will soon be resettled safely in South Korea.
We sincerely thank you for all the assistance you’ve given.
Four NK Refugees Safely Rescued
Four Successes
This month (September 2017), LFNKR rescued four refugees from North Korea. Two are the human trafficking victims whom we described in our previous blog post, and the other two are young males, both in their twenties. The two young men began their escape in Foeryong, North Korea. After managing to cross the border, and while hiding in a mountain in China, they luckily encountered a kind ethnic Korean-Chinese man who had come to the mountain hunting for mushrooms. The Korean-Chinese man knew someone who had formerly helped North Korea defectors in Longjin. This connection led to their relocation to safe destinations.
And if you were one of the many donors who helped us to help these refugees, please accept our thanks and the gratitude of the four young people who are free now thanks in large part to your generosity. Thank you.
3 Young Women Trapped by Human Trafficking
Join Our Rescue Mission!
LFNKR has so far helped more than 200 North Korean refugees escape to safe destinations where they’ve been able to start new lives.
Earlier this week, we received urgent requests from three desperate North Korean women in China. They are all in their early thirties, victims of human trafficking. Two of them had been sold to extremely poor Chinese farmers in Hebei.
5-year-old Boy Enters LFNKR Orphanage
Rapidly approaching are the Christmas and New Year holidays – a perfect time for gift-giving. Perhaps you’ve been thinking of donating to a worthy charity. If so, may we suggest a very special group of orphans; abandoned children born to North Korean defectors in China.
The most recent child to come to our orphanage arrived just two months ago. Here is his story.
It was October 4, 2015, a Sunday, when, without announcement or appointment a fiftyish-looking man just showed up at our orphanage in China. With him was a young boy.
7 NK Refugees Waiting for Help
Low Funds Delay Rescue Mission – Can You Help?
For a while now, LFNKR has been working quietly with a couple of South Korean NGO partners. Currently, we are ready to launch missions that will result in the rescue of a total of seven North Korean defectors (3 families and one woman) now hiding in China. However, due to a depleted rescue budget, we find ourselves unable to implement the first step of this rescue plan.
US NGO Report – ‘Lives for Sale’
Personal Accounts of NK Women Fleeing to China
An American NGO, The US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), at the end of April this year, released a 64-page document titled “Lives for Sale.” The report includes 53 summarized personal accounts, along with the history and context of such human trafficking of North Korean women in China. Most of the women fall into the hands of brokers, who sell them to Chinese farmers or to China’s sex trade.