S. Korea: Defector Celebrates 6 Years of Free North Korea Radio

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 05/12/10

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Defector Celebrates 6 Years of Free North Korea Radio

Free North Korea Radio in Seoul on April 20 celebrated its sixth anniversary in an event that brought together the leaders of some of about 30 defector organizations in South Korea for the first time.

Kim Sung-min (49), the president of Free North Korea Radio, said, "For the past six years, we've been working toward the day when we return to Pyongyang" after the nation is reunified.

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Kim majored in poetry at college. After graduation, he worked as a writer in the Army. He came to South Korea via China in 1996. Kim was arrested by a North Korean security officer in China but escaped by jumping from a speeding train while being taken back to Pyongyang.

He became the secretary general of a defectors' group at the request of Hwang Jang-yop, a former secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party who defected to the South in 1997. Since then, Kim has been engaged in a campaign to democratize the North and now plays a central role in the community of about 20,000 defectors in the South.

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After graduation, he worked as a writer in the Army.

To be accurate, he was a propaganda officer of NK military. That is where folks with good literary skill end up in their military.

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