Mr. Kim Seung Min is the Dean of Underground University and one of the most prominent North Korean defectors.  He is the founder of Free North Korea Radio, which broadcasts daily into North Korea on a shortwave channel. He served more than ten years in the North Korean Army before he was confronted with the truth about his country. "I found out North Korea was not the best socialist country in the world, but the most backward, most undemocratic country in the world. It was a total shock," said Min.

Kim Seung Min escaped to China in October 1996, shortly after famine struck North Korea. Arrested and returned to North Korea by the Chinese police, he was tortured for eight days at a detention center in Onsung, North Korea. He escaped again in March 1997 by jumping off the train taking him to the Central Office of the National Security Agency in Pyongyang. Two years later he arrived in South Korea, determined, as he wrote in a personal testimony, "to become a freedom fighter."

He now fights for freedom through the training of North Koreans in Exile in Underground University. Please join us to hear what God has put on the heart of Kim Seoung Min at the UU banquet on April 2, 2009.