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Wide Angle  Crossing Heaven's Border

North Korean defectors on the dangerous journey to South Korea Details

 

Program: Wide Angle

Episode: Crossing Heaven's Border

In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world's last closed Communist state. In Crossing Heaven's Border, WIDE ANGLE tells the moving and dramatic stories of a few of them.

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Duration: (53:44)
Premiere Date: 06/30/2009
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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