Out of North Korea · A Korean Boy Tells His Rescue Story in Pictures

To stay in North Korea meant starvation. To leave meant risk of capture, torture, and even execution by North Korean police.

Gil Su and some of his family left North Korea to seek food and freedom. His aunt worked in China to provide food but was arrested at her work place and sent to a North Korean concentration camp.

Devastated, fourteen-year-old Gil Su, his uncle, and his cousin went back inside North Korea and frantically searched for Gil Su's aunt. Gil Su was arrested but escaped a second time weeks later-alone, brokenhearted, and starving. This time, only a miracle could save him.

This is a stirring story you won't hear in the news-a true story about a boy you will never forget.