( from refugeesinternational.org ) Another story of a nameless desperate North Korean refugee who has found a reason to go on living in China.

WOMAN, Age 30. First arrived China 2001.

She was arrested and deported in 2001, but returned to China immediately. In November 2002, she was arrested again and returned in December 2002.

She originally crossed into China with an unknown North Korean man that she met at the border. "There are North Korean men who look for women along the border to sell them. The Chinese client pays. In the back of my mind I was going to be sold."

She was taken to a Korean-Chinese man's house and thought she might be sold so she escaped by going to the washroom and fleeing at night. She wandered around because she didn't know where to go. She tried to go back to the house because she didn't know where else to go, but she couldn't find the house, so finally came to the village where she currently lives.

The family she stayed with had two sons and wanted her to live with one of their sons. She married the 30-year-old. After four months of living with him she was arrested when the police came to the house one night.

She was so sick in North Korea that they released her. She found that it was still difficult to survive there so she left immediately and took a taxi to the house she's in now. Her husband paid for the taxi ride because he's happy to see her.

Her parents-in-law said she could go to South Korea if she wanted to and they found a businessman to help her. She was trying to go to Beijing in November 2002 with the intention of getting fake documents and going to the embassy. But she was arrested on the train because she had no ID.

"If you go to South Korea it's freedom and in North Korea it's death." She was sent to a labor-training center in North Korea. After one month she got stomach problems and almost died. They let her go and she returned to China in December 2002.

Her mother (age 69), younger brother, and younger sisters are still in North Korea. Her father died. Her younger brother is handicapped.

She saw some people in North Korea die of hunger. "The word ‘dying' is easy to say but when you face death it's much harder to deal with."

Those who downplay or forget what is happening in North Korea need to come face to face with people like this one, look into their eyes, and cry their hearts out before God.