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World Service,1 min

'When I was in North Korea all I wanted was something to eat'

The Real Story

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Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea when she was 13, enduring a journey with traffickers across China and through the Gobi Desert before reaching safety in South Korea. Now she's a student a world away in New York City. (Picture credit: Penguin Random House)

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