Mike Kim, Date of Birth

Mike Kim

Korean-American journalist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1976

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States, South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mike Kim (born December 11, 1976) is a consultant, author, inspirational speaker, NGO founder, and North Korea specialist.
He is a Korean-American who, in 2003, moved to the China-North Korea border and founded Crossing Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to North Korean refugees.
He is the author of the Wall Street Journal featured book Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country, a current events memoir published in 2008 by Rowman & Littlefield, about his experiences at the China-North Korea border when taking time off from business to help North Korean refugees and human trafficking victims through the modern-day 6,000 mile underground railroad in Asia.
Escaping North Korea has been translated into Turkish and Polish.
The book is being developed into a feature film with actor/producer Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-O).