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Yeonmi Park. Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector, YouTuber, author, and American conservative activist, described as "one of the most famous North Korean defectors in the world". [3] She fled from North Korea to China in 2007 at age 13 before moving to South Korea, then to the United States.
North Korean defectors. People defect from North Korea for political, material, and personal reasons. Defectors flee to various countries, mainly South Korea. In South Korea, they are referred to by several terms, including "northern refugees " and "new settlers". Towards the end of the North Korean famine of the 1990s, there was a steep ...
Dewey Decimal. 951.93. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is a 2009 nonfiction book by Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick, based on interviews with North Korean refugees from the city of Chongjin who had escaped North Korea. [1][2] In 2010, the book was awarded the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
Lee Hyeon-seo. Lee Hyeon-seo (Korean: 이현서, born January 1980), [1] best known for her book, The Girl with Seven Names, is a North Korean defector and activist who lives in Seoul, South Korea, [2] where she is a student. She escaped from North Korea and later guided her family out of North Korea through China and Laos.
After escaping the oppressive regime of North Korea, Loh Kiwan arrives in Belgium to seek asylum, hoping to find freedom and a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself entangled in the bureaucratic ...
Shin Dong-hyuk (born Shin In Geun, 19 November 1982 or 1980 [2]) is a North Korean -born human rights activist. He claims to be the only prisoner to have successfully escaped from a "total-control zone" grade internment camp in North Korea. His biography, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West ...
While tens of thousands risk everything to flee North Korea, a few, having failed to adjust to the capitalist South, make a desperate journey back. Some escapees pay bribes, cross rivers, risk ...
978-1250064646. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea (French: Corée du Nord: 9 ans pour fuir l'enfer, Korean: 열한 살의 유서) is a 2012 memoir by Eunsun Kim, with Sébastien Falletti. It was translated into English by David Tian in 2015.