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December 18, 2014

This 21-Year-Old’s Account Of Living In North Korea Is Staggering [Video]

North Korea certainly is not on my travel bucket list, but the place still fascinates me – a whole country of people living under the most insane dictatorship in 2014. Wow.

Yoh, I mean, we all know North Korea is hectic, but sometimes I don’t think we realise just how ridiculous it is in there, and how incredibly lucky and free we are.

Yeonmi Park is a 21-year old from North Korea. She managed to escape when she was 13, and went to China, which was not much better (there is a lot of human-trafficking there).

Yeonmi speaks of people being executed for watching Hollywood movies, and how she watched her mother get raped.

Frightening that this stuff still happens in our modern world.

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