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North Korean defector warns the West

Yeonmi Park is one of the few brave people to have managed to escape the Communist concentration camp that is North Korea.

Iain Taylor; Bill Muehlenberg; www.foxnews.com

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Arch of Reunification south of Pyongyang | photo: iStock

The 27-year-old told her story in the book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, which recounted the hellish conditions most people live in. Often they have to eat grasshoppers just to survive – hunger is constant, and starvation is a way of life. There is no heating during the winter, and all the basic necessities of life that Westerners take for granted are totally absent.