Escaping from North Korea in search of freedom | Yeonmi Park | One Young World

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Speaking at the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin on Saturday about the reality of life in North Korea, Yeonmi explained that people live their lives in constant fear of the brutal consequences awaiting them if they dare to step out of line.
Born on October 4 1993 in Hyesan - a notoriously cold river port along North Korea’s 850-mile northern border with China - she said:
'I was abducted at birth, even before I knew the words freedom or human rights.'
She added: 'No humans deserve to be oppressed just because of their birth place.'

eonmi revealed that only one channel is aired on TV in the closed-off country which, like films, can only be used there as a tool for propaganda.
'North Koreans are being terrorised today. When I was growing up, I never saw anything about love stories between men and women...there is no Romeo and Juliet.'
At 9 years old, she recalls being invited to watch the mother of her friend be publicly shot for a freedom exercised everyday in the Western world:
'Her crime? Watching a Hollywood movie.'

 Learning a vital life lesson at the age of four - to not even dare to whisper - the brave escapee recalls a childhood of paranoia as she feared the regime could ‘read my mind’.
She goes on to explain that the repercussions of criticising the dictatorship could result in three generations of a family being locked up in prison, tortured or even killed.
Meanwhile, her road to freedom was equally traumatising, as she describes escaping through the Gobi Desert by following a compass and then ‘the stars to freedom’ when it broke.