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Dateline Throwback Thursday: On Life's Border

This desperate and starving North Korean family escaped famine and crossed into China - they’re now living in a hole they dug themselves, in hiding. We’ve re-cut this harrowing story from our archives.

Dateline Throwback Thursday: On Life's Border

This desperate and starving North Korean family escaped famine and crossed into China. They’re now living in a hole they dug themselves, in hiding. We’ve re-cut this harrowing story from our archives, of people “surrounded by caution and living in fear.”

In our latest Throwback Thursday we re-visit a film from 2000, about a young family escaping North Korea's famine - and what they find once they make it out of the country.

In June 2000, it was estimated that 2.5 million people had died in the famine that devastated North Korea.

It prompted an exodus of desperate and starving families to cross illegally into neighbouring China - an exodus leader Kim-Jong Il refused to acknowledge.

Reporter Jung-Eun Kim spent a year filming undercover with the refugees for a special Dateline report.

Dateline's report was written and produced by Peter Charley and went on to win a Walkley Award for Excellence in International Journalism.

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Check out more from 'On Life's Border' here: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/lifes-border

 



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