the explosion in the number of north koreas who have depositten out in recent years is very striking. keep track of the north koreas who reach south korea and let me share with you just a couple of of the numbers. in 1990, only nine north creerns were able to reach south korea. last year 2,757 north koreans reached safety in the south. so, the people who get out now have formed a large -- there are a enough of them. they are educating us about the truth of life in north korea. and there have, several books published about life in north korea, and we now have a much better picture what the truth of the existence is there. but the north korea refugees are performing a second equally important function. arguably even more important. they are helping to open up their own information starved homeland. just as the world now knows about north korea. north koreans know far more about the world. this too is thanks to the earths of yort koreas who have escaped. how do they do that? think a minute. any immigrant who goes to a new country, what's the first thing they want to do? he wants to let h