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The refugee life of a North Korean defector in Hong Kong

A North Korean defector left Hong Kong to seek refuge in South Korea over the weekend – not weeks ago as earlier reported – according to a news agency which captured the student’s life inside the South Korean consulate in the city before he left.

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