North Korean Defector Aims to 'Wake Up' Compatriots with Dissent Newspaper
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- By Jason Godman
Kim Joo il served eight years in the North Korean army before becoming disillusioned and escaping by swimming to China. He now lives in London where he edits Free NK, a dissident newspaper. With the help of the government in Seoul, several thousand copies are airdropped monthly into the mountains of North Korea.