The story is well worth reading.
We had traveled to the area to document a grim story of human
trafficking for Current TV. During the previous week, we had met and
interviewed several North Korean defectors -- women who had fled
poverty and repression in their homeland, only to find themselves
living in a bleak limbo in China. Some had, out of desperation, found
work in the online sex industry; others had been forced into arranged
marriages.
Now our guide, a Korean Chinese man who often worked for foreign journalists, had brought us to the Tumen River to document a well-used trafficking route and chronicle how the smuggling operations worked. . . Feeling nervous about where we were, we quickly turned back toward China. Midway across the ice, we heard yelling. We looked back and saw two North Korean soldiers with rifles running toward us. Instinctively, we ran. . . [MORE . . .]
Now our guide, a Korean Chinese man who often worked for foreign journalists, had brought us to the Tumen River to document a well-used trafficking route and chronicle how the smuggling operations worked. . . Feeling nervous about where we were, we quickly turned back toward China. Midway across the ice, we heard yelling. We looked back and saw two North Korean soldiers with rifles running toward us. Instinctively, we ran. . . [MORE . . .]