[Faline]

[quote=gatagato;3542971]Some remarkable television pictures have come to light of North Koreans overcoming extraordinary obstactles to escape their country and Olenka Frenkiel goes in search of the journalists who hid for months on end to film those attempting to flee.

Some remarkable television pictures have come to light of North Koreans overcoming extraordinary obstactles to escape their country and Olenka Frenkiel goes in search of the journalists who hid for months on end to film those attempting to flee.

In the brilliant sunlight of an icy February day, the camera takes us onto the frozen river.
A female figure lies, face down, hip raised in the classic pose of a reclining beauty, a North Korean woman - fully dressed - who fell while crossing.
Like a sculpture cast in bronze, nameless, iconic, she is a monument to all the fallen who went unfilmed, their deaths unremarked.
The Chinese guide who has brought the crew to see her has seen it all before.
He kicks her foot.
"Rock hard," he says and relieves himself nearby.
Her body lay there for three weeks until the ice melted and she was washed away.

BBC News - North Korea's great escape

Short video here:
Desperate plight of N Koreans

So no one recovered the body?

[knuggy]

eerie photo . Godspeed to these peoples

[Sharon]

Thanks for the added info GG

She was just left there???

In the brilliant sunlight of an icy February day, the camera takes us onto the frozen river.
A female figure lies, face down, hip raised in the classic pose of a reclining beauty, a North Korean woman - fully dressed - who fell while crossing.
Like a sculpture cast in bronze, nameless, iconic, she is a monument to all the fallen who went unfilmed, their deaths unremarked.
The Chinese guide who has brought the crew to see her has seen it all before.
He kicks her foot.
"Rock hard," he says and relieves himself nearby.
Her body lay there for three weeks until the ice melted and she was washed away.

[tecumseh35]

Better to be dead, than it is to live in N.Korea.

[kellyhound]

left for the vultures

[Chrissy1313]

That's so sad. She risked her life to cross the border because it's that bad living in North Korea. My maternal grandmother had family that was stuck in the North after the war. She never saw them again. I consider myself lucky because what if my grandmother was with them? My mom would've never met my father in Canada, they never would've come to America, and I would've never been born. I could've born in N. Korea, just with a different father, which would make me a different me. Kind of confusing, but hopefully you get what I'm saying.

[Chrissy1313]

Oops, "could've BEEN born in N. Korea". Forgot a word. I'm new to posting, so I'm not sure how to edit. Is there a way to edit posts?

[gatagato]

Originally Posted by Chrissy1313 ↗

Oops, "could've BEEN born in N. Korea". Forgot a word. I'm new to posting, so I'm not sure how to edit. Is there a way to edit posts?

If the "Edit" button is still showing at the bottom of the post, then you can edit it.
It was a very interesting post.