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Tae-il Shim
Tae-il Shim is a pseudonym for a North Korean defector writer. He left the DPRK in 2018, and now resides in South Korea.
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Ask A North Korean Ask a North Korean: smuggling goods and helping escapees across the Yalu River"God, please help me live. Help me not get washed away by the force of the current...." ![]() Hello NK News readers, and welcome back to Ask a North Korean, the feature where NK News readers can send in their questions and have them answered by our North Korean defector writers. This is Tae-il Shim's second piece for NK News. You can read the story of how he went from being a taekwondo instructor to the "smuggler kingpin" of Hyesan here. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |