Joseph Kim’s father starved to death when he was thirteen. His mother and sister went to China to look for food and he never heard from them again. Joseph tried to survive by working fourteen hours a day in a coal mine and various other jobs. But when he could not make ends meet he too fled to China.
In China he remained in hiding for a year until he found a LiNK safe house. LiNK applied on his behalf for asylum in the U.S. At the age of sixteen he arrived in the U.S. as the first North Korean unassisted refugee minor.
Now Joseph Kim is helping LiNK as a nomad, like the three nomads who are currently staying at my place and did the recent screening of Seoul Train. You can see Joseph dancing in the video below, he is the one with the blue bandana.
It is amazing what can happen when just a few people show compassion.
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