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WBA woman super featherweight champion Choi Hyunmi smiles during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on June 21, 2021. South Korea’s only boxing world champion is Choi, a North Korean defector who fled her authoritarian homeland as a 13-year-old girl with her family in 2003. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Defector no more: Choi a proud South Korean world champion

By Hyung-Jin Kim Jul. 19, 2021 02:33 AM EDT