Tim Peters, a Seoul-based American pastor, helps defectors from the poverty and oppression of the regime of Kim Jong-un escape to safety and freedom in South Korea. For the many he has helped, it's the Korean peninsula equivalent of the fabled "Underground Railroad" that transported American slaves to freedom in the north in the decades before the Civil War.
Founded in 1996 by a US Protestant pastor and his South Korean wife, the NGO sends food, medicine and necessities to poor North Koreans. Via an “underground route”, it gets escapees out to safety in neighbouring countries. Its Christian ethic attracts volunteers, including non-believers.
I was very hesitant to publish this anecdote, because I don t want to seem like a self-aggrandizing clown. But without context, it s difficult to understand what, exactly, the Olle Trail can help us rediscover.