She and her mother, finally reunited, travelled across the Gobi desert before reaching freedom. In Order to Live, her clear-eyed and devastating autobiography tells of her famine-struck childhood in North Korea, her defection and the years in which she was trafficked around northern China by gangsters running forced marriage and prostitution rackets.
Aged 13, she and her mother braved the frontier guards and fled to China.
Y eonmi Park was born in the North Korean city of Hyesan, close to the Chinese border, and brought up in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere of the Kim dictatorships.
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