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The Washington Times on ‘Seoul Train’:

A new documentary on the plight of tens of thousands of North Korean defectors, perhaps several hundred thousand, who have fled the communist dictatorship into China and other countries aired recently on PBS stations.

The film, “Seoul Train,” is a dramatic expose of the plight of North Koreans and the handful of activists who are trying to help them reach freedom. The documentary shows how the communist government of China is helping the North Korean government and how the refugee arm of the United Nations is ignoring the problem.

It is the first film to reveal the secret underground railroad of courageous human rights activists who help North Koreans escape and reach safe havens such as South Korea and Mongolia.

The documentary contains video of Chinese police arresting a group of North Koreans who tried to reach freedom by entering a Japanese consulate in China. The incident shows a 3-year-old girl, Han-mi, standing by in terror as several Chinese police violently wrestled her mother to the ground to prevent them from entering the consulate grounds.

Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, stated in the film that Chinese authorities are “not only trying to catch the refugees but to systematically break down the networks that help them in the hope that if you take out the networks then there will no longer be refugees.”

“Seoul Train” aired 9 p.m. nationwide, but PBS affiliates in the Washington area showed the film at 1 a.m. on Dec. 23.

If you’ve seen it, or want to, please write to WETA and help us get it aired in prime time.