Life Quote by Park Yeon-mi

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

— Shindong

My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and…

— Moon Jae-in

North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

— Hisham Matar

I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.

— Moon Jae-in

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and…

— Park Yeon-mi

I wasn't dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea... I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl…

— Park Yeon-mi

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under…

— Paulo Coelho

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived…

— Winnie Byanyima