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.

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It was Christmas Day <a href="https://www.pinterest.co.kr/donglee2021/%EB%A0%88%ED%94%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%
B4%EB%A0%88%ED%94%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%B9%B4/" target="_blank">레플리카레플리카</a>=레플리카레플리카<br /> 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 
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lepeullikaseulaildaeil/" target="_blank">레플리카쇼핑 레플리카커스텀급 레플리카일대일
</a>=레플리카쇼핑 레플리카커스텀급 레플리카일대일<br /> the Chinese army.

There was barely enough <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pamenjelseu4u/" target="_blank">까르띠에</a>=까르띠에여성
의류<br /> 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 <a href="http://kachi.co.kr/" target="_blank">답례떡</a><br /> 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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