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Suji’s Letter to Her Father

Choi Yong-hun with his two daughters

From the Daughter of a Jailed Humanitarian

Hi, I am Suji, the eldest daughter of Choi Yong-hun.

On the first of November 2002, our family of four moved to China, where my younger sister and I began settling in to our new life there. We started school in January 2003. But just two months after our move to China, our father was arrested by the Chinese police for attempting to help some North Korean refugees. I had trouble believing he had been arrested since the media were reporting that he had been helping a group of refugees from North Korea.