Almost 70 years ago, a US merchant marine ship picked up more than 14,000 refugees in a single trip from a North Korean port. This is the story of that journey, and some of those on board.
It was Christmas Day 레플리카레플리카=레플리카레플리카
in 1950, and this was no ordinary birth.
The mother was one of 14,000 North Korean refugees crammed into a US merchant marine ship, fleeing the advancing guns of 레플리카쇼핑 레플리카커스텀급 레플리카일대일=레플리카쇼핑 레플리카커스텀급 레플리카일대일
the Chinese army.
There was barely enough 까르띠에=까르띠에여성의류
room on board to stand - and there wasn't much medical equipment, either.
"The midwife had to use her teeth to cut my umbilical cord," Lee Gyong-pil tells me some 69 years on. "People said the fact that I didn't die and was born was a Christmas miracle."
Mr Lee was the fifth baby born on the SS Meredith Victory that winter, during some of the darkest days of the Korean War.
The Meredith Victory's three-day voyage 답례떡
saved thousands of lives, including the parents of the current President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in.
It also earned the cargo freighter a nickname - the Ship of Miracles.
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