WILL COME FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
LAST YEAR, PRESIDENT TRUMP
CALLED FOR A BAN ON TRANSGENDERS
IN THE MILITARY.
THE PRESIDENT MADE A VERY BIG
DEAL OF A NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS
DURING HIS STATE OF THE UNION
SPEECH LAST MONTH.
TONIGHT SENIOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
CORRESPONDENT GREG PALKOT TALKS
WITH A MAN WHO TOOK HIS OWN LONG
AND HARROWING TRIP TO FREEDOM.
>> HITTING HARD AT THE BRUTALITY
OF NORTH KOREA ON UNDER THE
REGIME OF KIM JONG UN.
IT'S A NEW STRATEGY OF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
IT'S A WEAPON IS A NORTH KOREAN
DEFECTOR, THE HUMAN FACE OF THE
HORROR.
>> Translator: NORTH KOREA IS
THE KINGDOM OF EVIL.
>> WE ARE JOINED BY ONE MORE
WITNESS TO THE OMINOUS NATURE OF
THIS REGIME.
>> HE WAS SINGLED OUT BY
PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE STATE OF
THE UNION ADDRESS.
HE HELD UP CRUTCHES HE ONCE
USED.
HE LOST A LEG AND HAND IN AN
ACCIDENT IN 1996, STRUGGLING TO
STAY ALIVE IN NORTH KOREA.
TEN YEARS LATER WHEN FAMINE,
HARDSHIP AND PERSECUTION WERE
TOO UNBEARABLE, HE SWAM TO
FREEDOM, CROSSING A RIVER FROM
NORTH KOREA TO CHINA, ALMOST
DROWNING.
>> Translator: IF I HAD ONE
DAY, TO LIVE AS A HUMAN BEING
OUTSIDE NORTH KOREA.
>> HE WOULD LATER MEET WITH THE
PRESIDENT AND THE WHITE HOUSE.
WITH VICE PRESIDENT PENCE DURING
HIS TRIP TO SOUTH KOREA.
EVEN RECENTLY HUGGING FRED WARM
WARM -- WARMBIER.
>> IT WAS A VICTORY AGAINST
NORTH KOREA.
>> HE RUNS AN ORGANIZATION IN
SEOUL HELPING DEFECTORS.
NORTH KOREAN STATE MEDIA HAS
MADE THREATENING STATEMENTS
ABOUT HIM, BRANDING HIM "HUMAN
SCUM."
JI SEONG-HO HAS CONCERNS ABOUT
RECENT EFFORTS.
>> Translator: I THINK
NORTH KOREA HAS A HIDDEN SIDE.
I THINK THIS IS JUST A SHOW.
>> THE DEFECTOR SAYS ANY FUTURE
CONVERSATION THE SOUTH OR THE
U.S. HAS WITH NORTH KOREA MUST
DEAL NOT ONLY WITH THE REGIME'S
NUKES AND MISSILES BUT WITH
HUMAN SUFFERING.
