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The Hard Road Out: One Womans Escape From North Korea
The Hard Road Out: One Womans Escape From North Korea | Jihyun Park, Seh-lynn Chai
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The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum. David Lammy MP
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Mpcacher
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Pickpick

Some books you read for the beautiful writing, some for the entertainment and others like this one for the knowledge they impart. This is a powerful story that details what it was like to grow up in North Korea. Park details the lack of play, the work & the brainwashing that made up her childhood. Later she lives through the famine of the 1990's and the brutality she faced after she escaped. I loved this book & consider it a must read. 5 stars!

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Bookwomble
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Pickpick

Jihyun Park's biography of her life in North Korea, the terrors of living in an authoritarian regime, and her "escape" into slavery after being trafficed into China, is both horrifying and inspirational. That she found asylum and a new life in Britain is wonderful, that she lost and is separated from so many family members, tragic. I'm glad she's found a haven, now, in Lancashire. ⬇️

Bookwomble Her decision to join the UK Conservative Party and run as their local government candidate, whilst still one I feel saddened by, makes sense in the context of the suffering she experienced under the rule of notionally socialist North Korea. Her story exemplifies the need for a kinder immigration and asylum system than the one so poorly and punitively managed by the political party she represents. 4⭐ 1y
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Bookwomble
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"Mummy, why did you abandon me?"

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dabbe Whoah. THAT is an opening! 1y
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Bookwomble
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From the book jacket: "This compelling book offers a stark lesson in determination, and ultimately in the importance of asylum."
So, it's a massive disconnect that having escaped from North Korea and been granted asylum in the UK, the author has joined a Conservative Party that has the most rabidly anti-asylum policies for a generation. I can't even... ??
That aside, her story does sound fascinating, if awful.

Suet624 The disconnect is so frustrating. 1y
Bookwomble @Suet624 She was a Tory local councillor candidate recently, and reading her campaign statement on the Conservative website, everything she said she was standing for, the Tories have a policy against 🤯 1y
Suet624 Ugh. 1y
quietlycuriouskate Huh?! *does not compute" 1y
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