The hard road out : one woman's escape from North Korea
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Seh-Lynn, 1965- author.
Published
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
362.87092 PARK
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362.87092 PARK
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Published
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2022.
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Book
Language
English
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North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship. The first time she ran, she was forced to abandon her father on his deathbed--crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In China she was sold to a farmer, with whom she had a son, before being denounced and forcibly returned to North Korea. Six months later guards abandoned her, injured, outside a prison camp. She recovered and returned to China to seek her son, now six, before attempting to navigate the long, hard road through the Gobi Desert and into Mongolia. Clear-eyed and resolute, Jihyun's extraordinary story reveals a Korea far removed from the talk of nuclear weapons and economic sanctions.
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