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In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

— Park Yeon-mi

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

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

— Christo

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

— Jack Henry Abbott

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

— Park Yeon-mi

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to…

— Klaus Fuchs

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

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

I am one of the lucky North Koreans who made it out of China. North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Back in 2014, at the One Young World Summit in Dublin, I shared my story of my escape from North Korea to China in…

— Park Yeon-mi

The hardest prison to escape is in your mind.

— Anonymous

My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.

— Harris Faulkner