In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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Of course we won’t let that happen. I’m not going to let that happen. I’ll live longer than Kim Jong-un – he’s fatter than me. He doesn’t like me.

In the free world, children dream about what they want to be when they grow up and how they can use their talents. When I was four and five years old, my only adult ambition was to buy as much bread as I liked and eat all of it.” There are thousands of people who are going through this and their stories cannot be heard. If you can be more open about this, then it will help others talk about it. In North Korean society, for a woman to admit these kinds of things, it’s the end of the world. Our tradition is purity, virginity – for a woman, that is everything. A woman cannot talk about the bad things that happen to her. So writing this did feel like the end of the world for me. With a few notable exceptions, the men in your story are monsters, exploiting women for gain or pleasure.The vocabulary in South Korea was so much richer than the one I had known, and when you have more words to describe the world, you increase your ability to think complex thoughts.” One man, in particular, stands out – Hongwei. He’s a violent gangster, but he also clearly loved you. Do you have mixed emotions about him now? He, after all, helped you escape.

Your mother and sister went through journeys as difficult as your own. What did this experience teach you about the importance of family? A second chance? I thought. A second chance is what criminals get. I knew I wasn’t a criminal; I did what I had to do to survive and save my family.” We all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free.”It must be a sign that you’re doing something right that the Kim regime feels the need to spread malicious propaganda about you? But there was human intimacy and connection, something that is hard to find in the modern world I inhabit today.” I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live.”



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