Yeonmi Park urges the west to recognise the suffering of North Koreans as country celebrates 70th anniversaryA young North Korean defector and human rights activist has urged the west to not consider dictator Kim Jong-un as a comedian figure. “Please don’t see Kim Jong Un as a joke,” she told the Women in the World event in London. “He is killing millions of people.” Yeonmi Park, a 22-year-old who fled to China before making it to South Korea, or described the total control the dictator had over her childhood. “I believed my dear leader could read my intellect,I thought if I thought a bad thing he could punish me,” she said. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com