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Kenneth Rowe

Kenneth Rowe is in his early 80s, lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, and still does 60 push-ups every day.

Escaping from North Korea was just the beginning for this American immigrant

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Kenneth Rowe was lucky to get out of North Korea alive, let alone on to the United States as a celebrated defector. But staying in America and starting a new life was far from easy.

No Kum Sok, age 3, wearsing a pith helmet, with his father, No Zae Hiub (right), an all-star pitcher for his company’s baseball team, in Sinhung, Korea, in 1935.

This Florida man escaped from North Korea in a MiG-15 fighter jet

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