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

Product Information

This is one of the most frustrating readings I had, not because the writing is bad (on the contrary, the touch of a well versed editor is obvious), but because I simply cannot understand how a story that clearly has A LOT of holes in it can be held in such a high regard. My guess is that he had a very comfortable high position, since I doubt that you'd be able to smuggle gold out of a communist country by only bribing low level officials and cops. Never have I imagined what the truth is actually like for North Korean people, and it was devastating to read about famine, extreme poverty, and schools where even mathematics were turned into propaganda to enforce the North Korean regime and diminish the “nasty Yankees” from America.

I live in Japan and my own mother couldn't even afford a fucking Chanel bag (which of course her mom had by the way).

Other times (in history) there's a military coup d'etat, like a force comes in taking your rights away and silencing you.

So did Yeonmi Park grow up in a professional family having fun with other children and hopes of a university education or did she grow up eating beetles in the direst poverty where even being sold as a slave was better than the life she had?Full of tears and angst, Park does not coat her story with flowery tales and sing-song moments, while transitioning from the darkest corners of one country about which the world knows so little. Voluntarily, these people are censoring each other, silencing each other, no force behind it,' she said. To see what they see and feel what they feel when they come into a completely new country with different language, customs, or even history, while still reeling with the trauma of their past and escape. But after five years of practicing being free, I know now that my favorite color is spring green and my hobby is reading books and watching documentaries. She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.