Katharina Hesse

ASIA: NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES work in progress

Kim Jung-ae (a pseudonym), 62, hides in a house in Northern China. The elderly woman left North Korea in mid-2006 as she didn't "want to wait to die". Being retired , she had no income and was obliged to live on herbs and grass she collected in the mountains. Her son died two years ago of starvation. Kim survives in China by reselling garbage she collects in the streets. She makes between 30-50 cent EU/day.Kim says she does not know where to go or how she could travel to South Korea.
Kim Jung-ae (a pseudonym), 62, hides in a house in Northern China. The elderly woman left North Korea in mid-2006 as she didn't "want to wait to die". Being retired , she had no income and was obliged to live on herbs and grass she collected in the mountains. Her son died two years ago of starvation.
Kim survives in China by reselling garbage she collects in the streets. She makes between 30-50 cent EU/day.
Kim says she does not know where to go or how she could travel to South Korea.