North Korean defector Yeonmi Park grew up thinking it was normal to see dead bodies as you walked to school and to be so hungry you ate wild plants. Her searing memoir In Order to Live describes her family’s escape into the hands of Chinese people traffickers and eventually to perilous freedom. Don’t miss Suzanne Leal’s interview with this extraordinary woman about her struggle to be free.
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Yeonmi Park (International)
Human rights activist and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is fast becoming the face and voice of her oppressed people, as well as an inspiration for freedom-loving individuals throughout the world. In the fall of 2014 she was a featured speaker at the Oslo Freedom Forum and The One Young World Summit in Dublin, where her passionate, deeply personal speech about the brutality of the North Korean regime became an international phenomenon. Since then, she’s been named one of the Top 100 Global Women by the BBC and profiled in numerous media outlets. Yeonmi’s memoir, In Order To Live, was published by Penguin in 2015. |
