SEOUL – Swimming across the half-frozen Tumen river to flee from hunger in North Korea to China, a female army commander sought refuge at a nearby church. She met a stout young missionary from South Korea who bore an uncanny resemblance to her country’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il.
She was smitten at first sight.
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