‘They give me food, a place to sleep’: Netherlands’ North Koreans

There are 91 North Koreans in the Netherlands but many are not accepted as refugees and fear deportation to South Korea.

An overview of the Gilze en Rijen reception centre where North Korean defector Kyung-Ae Choi* lives with her three children [Je Seung Lee/Al Jazeera]

The names of the North Korean defectors have been changed in this article to protect their identities.

Gilze en Rijen and Musselkanaal, The Netherlands – Kyung-Ae Choi*, a North Korean woman in her early fifties, first arrived in Europe on a fake Chinese passport, in 2012.

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