It must be a sign that you’re doing something right that the Kim regime feels the need to spread malicious propaganda about you? Voluntarily, these people are censoring each other, silencing each other, no force behind it,' she said.

Es öffnet die Augen und gibt tiefe, bewegende, schokierende Einblicke in brutale Systeme (totalitäre Diktatur und Menschenhandel).

An underlying theme of political ideology surely finds its way into the discussion, from the Korean War, Soviet-style communism, to the eventual isolated sentimentality that even Mao would not have recognised.

Yeonmi wrote this book with the purpose that more people will listen to her story and know the reality that resides in North Korea even though this means putting her life in danger as she's now being branded as a public enemy to the whole country where she's born. For me, they were the reason that I managed to get by while I was in captivity and now they are the reason to live in freedom. She is part of what is referred to as the 'Black Market Generation', young North Koreans born during/after the famine, North Koreans who don't have the same connection to Kim Il-sung (not only because he was long dead, but because they never experienced a successful/functioning North Korea).He’d lost his own parents, he knew what it was to live without your parents, so he knew what I was going through. So I set a challenge for all my friends out there; “find what moves you, and never give in to scrutiny or judgement. It doesn't matter that in some of those appearances she was wearing a lot of makeup (even her classmates failed to recognize her and first) and also had a fake name.