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I’m having difficulty finding some of the ones that I saw about a year ago, when I began studying this; but here are some links. As you watch the YouTube ones, others will pop up on the sidebar. When I have time, I’ll try to find more of the ones that I felt were especially important.

I’ve been interested in Korea and Korean culture for decades, since I was befriended by a Korean immigrant family and became close to them. They were among the most sterling and admirable people I had ever met; and when you are able to become immersed in a culture through close contact with the people like that, the culture becomes like another ‘home’ and personal background. (Today, the smell of roasted buckwheat tea and kimchi are as comforting to me as the smell of my Grandmother’s chicken pie always was ;-)

I don’t see that the bearing and sensibilities of these NK defectors are really much different from the South Koreans that I’ve known, despite their enduring the overlay of a vicious political system; and I’ve been very moved by their stories and find them ‘familiar’ despite their background.

Dictators can try, but they cannot ever completely take the humanity out of humans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcgnuy1yZYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MprzRfUUSx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmzpMP3bEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbnyLKLHbo

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/01/03/north-korean-defectors-disillusioned-novak-pkg.cnn