Today, I am a mother-of-three who twice escaped from North Korea and survived forced marriage, acute poverty, famine and illness before I was finally granted asylum in the UK in 2008.
North Korean defector looking to make democratic history in UK
North Korean refugee seeks historic political victory in UK UP NEXT Jihyun Park had something of a political awakening at the start of the pandemic last year. Moved by stories of care homes struggling with PPE, and the elderly isolated from their loved ones in her town of Bury, England, she organized in her community to donate supplies. Last year in 2020, [there was] real darkness in all sorts of countries, also in England too. Every day I sat down in our home and I heard that kind of innocent people, they died of this virus, and many people they separated from family members, older people in care homes, Park said.