A human rights advocate who defected from North Korea said that orphans who were discovered to be Christians were “tortured harshly” by the dictatorial regime.
Several human rights advocates revealed some of the struggles of orphaned children in North Korea during a panel discussion that was part of the week-long North Korean Freedom Week. The said event was hosted at Georgetown University, according to The Christian Post.
During the discussion on Wednesday, Lim Hye-Jin of the New Korea Women’s Union narrated a story, through a translator, how the North Korean government treated 17 orphans who tried to defect.
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