Pastor Eom

Pastor Eom Myong-hui—hand on chest — leads a discussion at a church outside Washington, D.C.

(Courtesy of Defense Forum Foundation)

PhotosBuck’s Refugees

Tim Peters, one of the early backers of the new underground railroad, takes the podium at United Nations…

A New Testament in Korean from the early twentieth century. Secret Christians hid it for half a century…

Yoo Chul-min’s father, Yoo Sang-jun, prays at his son’s grave in Mongolia. (Courtesy of Helping Hands Korea)

Buck’s Refugees. The group of North Koreans Pastor Phillip Buck led out of China just before his identity…

President George W. Bush spends a few moments with North Korean escapee Kim Han-mee, in the Oval Office…

Kim Chun-ae, a pseudonym for a North Korean broadcaster, in the Seoul studio of Radio Free Asia. (Courtesy…

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