So, Mrs. Kim loses two daughters - or does she ?

Her first daughter, it turns out, went to China and a trafficker sold her. She had to decide to go back to Pyongyang or go to China and look for her. She decided to go to China. Over the Tumen River border.

But while crossing, her hands slipped. Her daughter was somehow lost in the middle of the river. She cried out to whatever God there might be, Help Me! Struggling for awhile, they hit rocks on the China side of the bank. With some first aid, all arrived safe, She decided to continue asking God for help.

She went into the village with her daughter. Someone threw them a blanket. It was October and already cold. The food offered her was very hard for her to eat. She told whomever would listen that she came here to find her daughter.

She gave out names. But her daughter could not be found with just a name, as there were so many traffickers, and so many victims. What could she do? She put an advertisement out.

Even the person she had been talking to was a trafficker. He offered her a job as a housekeeper. Five North Korean women were there in the same house. The owner there was selling women.

Next she witnessed violence there during her stay. One young girl was violated. She realized she has to move on, quickly. But when she went to the market and came back home, her second daughter had disappeared. Then they lied to her, saying she was looking for her mother and had simply left the house.

After a serious argument, she left, wandering around looking for her daughter, who was only 16 and very helpless. Everytime she saw someone looking like her, she thought it was her.

She had no place to stay now. She met a young girl, a citizen of the area, asked where she was from, told her she had no place to stay and asked for asylum. The girl agreed. She stayed there three days, began to relax, and came to her senses.

How can I find my daughter? There is a neighbor who now visited, heard of the situation, and offered to solve it. He was Chinese-Korean. He offered marriage, with the promise that as her husband he would find the two missing daughters.

People listening to the proposal encouraged her to take it. She must do anything to find her daughter. She went ahead with the marital arrangement. Her new husband went to a house he knew of, and immediately began to threaten the owner.

This brought out some truth, but still the connection was not made. Three months later, there was communication back from her daughter. The girl had been sold to a twenty-some year old man. But by this time she was nearly crazy and wanted to go home. No one could tame her, so they left her at his grandmother's house. The new husband took money there to buy her back.

Regrettably, some Chinese people buy North Korean women married to Korean-Chinese, and sell them to Mongolians in need of this commodity. In fact this is what had happened to daughter number two.

She had been threatened, "If you scream, I will kill you." She resisted, and tried to fight. Next door, police were called, an arrest was made, and all who belonged there were sent back to North Korea. Even Mom, who managed to get to the scene of all this madness. But Mom escaped from North Korea three days later.

Mrs. Kim went back to her new husband, and the second daughter escaped only a few months later. Then, kidnapped again! This time traffickers tried to sell her to Inner Mongolia, but they were all arrested by Chinese police, and sent to North Korea yet again!

She went to a North Korean prison. Once more an escape. She walked across the country to where her sister lived. Back to the Tumen River. She moved out of the border area to a somewhat safer place in China. She advertised in a magazine that so and so mom was looking for daughter so and so. One year later, the match was made again. She had found her first daughter.

Then she heard news that her son had arrived from North Korea! All children found, she decided to come to South Korea via the long route of thousands of miles that so many have taken.

It was in Cambodia that Mrs. Kim began seriously reading the Bible. She wanted to learn more about the Lord. And though she had some bad incidents in the South Korean church, she started coming to the Underground University, met up with others of like values and backgrounds, and her life has taken off from there. One daughter came to Christ in China.

People want to know what happened to that first husband: The food ran out. He could not eat. He could not work. He was sent to a reeducation center. He starved to death in one year. Her son was a kotjebi for six years. Her second husband was affliliated with the gangs of North Korea and could not be considered the father of her children. He had agendas of his own.

Her future? She definitely wants to go back to North Korea when it opens.