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Perilous Journeys: North Korean Famine and Flight to China and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

The International Crisis Group
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With the worsening food crisis in North Korea in the mid-1990s, thousands of people from the food-deficit areas of the country crossed the border into China. While many returned to North Korea with food or money, some stayed in China. Several thousand of these made their way, usually through great hardship, to South Korea.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , e12
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