Aired: Jan 31, 2009After years of retirement from political life, Nelson Mandela, the world's mo...
This World
Season 6 Episode 2: Escaping North Korea
The dramatic stories of North Koreans who are risking everything, including torture and execution, to escape the repression and hunger of their homeland and reach safety in the South. The border between the two Koreas is so heavily guarded that refugees are forced to flee into China, dodging border guards and risking freezing to death crossing the river that divides the two countries. Once in China, they are forced to live secret lives, the women often sold into forced marriages or prostitut...
