Joseph Kim was a starving orphan in North Korea who escaped his home and started a new life in the U.S. Now he's pursuing a master's degree at Harvard.
Joseph Kim was a starving orphan in North Korea who escaped his home and started a new life in the U.S.There's an empty bin in Joseph Kim's office at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas. He hasn't started packing yet for his next chapter.Kim is a Global Policy Program Director at the Bush Institute."Supporting North Korean defectors like," like him."Providing scholarships to go to colleges.
"North Korea is one of the darkest place on Earth when it comes to human rights abuses and lack of freedoms," Kim said."So I decide to escape North Korea and I knew it was risky, but I didn't really have much other choice." "President Bush is, ah, one of the kindest person I can think of," Kim said."He invited North Korean defectors like myself to the Bush Institute, and that was my first time meeting him in person."Police release two videos showing ‘Cop Watch' woman's arrest, police investigating use of force
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