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Week of Jan. 3, 2009

North Korean Joblessness
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The lure of freedom has brought an estimated 11,000 refugees from North Korea to South Korea. But many of those defectors from the north have trouble adjusting to living in a free society. Most are unemployed.

One defector was so concerned about his fellow refugees that he set up a food factory to provide them with jobs and an income. Jason Strother reports from Seoul.

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