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Article written by 2009 Abe Journalism Fellow Robert Boynton based on his project “Abduction: North Korea’s Kidnappings of South Korean and Japanese Citizens.”
To smuggle facts into or out of North Korea is to risk imprisonment and even execution. Yet today, aided by a half-dozen stealthy media organizations outside the country, citizen-journalists are using technologies new and old to break the regime’s iron grip on information. Will the truth set a nation free?