Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Executive director's note: Hyunseung Lee, an escapee from North Korea, sent this letter to the president of Ukraine after watching the documentary at this link: https://youtu.be/1FSgwPU-wVk.
Your Excellency, Mr. President and Madam First Lady:
After watching Parts 1 and 2 of the Korean documentary MBC PD Notebook, "The Russia-Ukraine War and North Korean Soldiers," I found myself unable to stop crying in front of the screen. In the faces of the young North Korean soldiers -- who blame themselves in shame for being taken prisoner, who wake up night after night fearing for the families they left behind in North Korea -- I saw another layer of the war's cruelty, and moments in which human dignity itself is being trampled.
They said, "We want to go to South Korea."Those words were not a request for asylum. They were a desperate plea to live.
In front of the camera, one soldier said:
