On a South Korean island just eight miles from the shores of North Korea, Jung Gwang-il is trying to save lives with rice and USBs. He’s a North Korean defector who survived torture and concentration camps, and is now smuggling food and information, to try to help his starving people and weaken the dictatorship — even if it puts his own life in danger
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Music for this episode includes “Heroin” by Mitch Hanley and “Cylinders,” an album by Chris Zabriskie. You can listen to it here.
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