According to David Hawk of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, some 23, 000 recently escaped North Koreans now live in South Korea.

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The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a lobby group in Washington, DC, claims that the total number stranded in North Korea is huge: 180, 000.

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Once a high-ranking North Korean official working for the Kim regime as an insurance manager based in Singapore, Kim Kwang Jin was brought to Washington this year by a private watchdog outfit, the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

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