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(July 1, 2009) North Korean defectors take a life-threatening journey, traveling thousands of miles through China, Laos and Thailand, in the hope of settling as free citizens in South Korea. Intrepid South Korean journalists risk their own lives to capture the action and emotion.
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Every refugee has a story. Here are nine of them, from Iraq, Tibet, Burma, Cuba, Congo and Rwanda.
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North Korean defector Myong Hui Eom talks about her daily life in North Korea as a school teacher, a Christian, and finally as a prisoner.
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An interview with Pastor Chun Ki Won, founder of the Durihana mission, which has helped over 700 North Koreans escape to the South.
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Follow the route traveled in Crossing Heaven’s Border, and learn about each country’s policy towards North Korean refugees.
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Host Aaron Brown interviews Debra Debra Liang-Fenton, a human rights expert with the United States Institute of Peace, and the former Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
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Tonight on Bill Moyers Journal: Leymah Gbowee, who led the women's peace movement in Liberia, and Abby Disney, producer of Pray the Devil Back to Hell, the film that tells her story.
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Meet the veteran Waterford workers and their families who staged a two-month sit-in.
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Wide Angle interviews 36-year General Motors veteran, Brian Larkin, about the loss of GM jobs in Pontiac, Michigan.
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