How a North Korean family of 9 escaped to South Korea in 2 hours after 10 years of planning

In a daring plot, a family of nine successfully escaped North Korea by sea after 10 years of preparation. The plan was first conceived by the family’s patriarch, who believed that there was a vast world out beyond North Korea and said that the ocean was their only escape route. On May 6, 2023, the Kim family, consisting of two brothers, Kim Il-hyeok and Kim Yi-hyeok, their mother, Il-hyeok’s wife, who was five months pregnant, Yi-hyeok’s wife and two children, aged 4 and 6 and his mother-in-law and brother-in-law, all climbed onto a boat in the North Korean shores to…