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[CNN] North Korean ‘Defector Girl Boxer’ fights for the South

September 29, 2014
North Korean defector boxer Choi Hyun-mi, left, now wears Taeguk mark on her chest. (Yonhap)

North Korean defector boxer Choi Hyun-mi, left, now wears Taeguk mark on her chest. (Yonhap)

[CNN] — Choi Hyun Mi remembers her hands always ached in North Korea.

“The boxing gloves were just one thin layer of leather,” Choi said. “The older female boxers had hands that weren’t intact. Their fists didn’t even seem human.”

Choi was recruited to be a boxer from the age of 11. She trained in North Korea until she defected with her family to South Korea in 2004. [READ MORE]