Jihyun said her father feared his children would die of starvation and begged her to escape North Korea with her younger brother Cheol Min. I refused, but then I thought, “if I marry this man, I will save my younger brother”,’ Jihyun recalls. She weeps as she recalls how Cheol Min insisted that she leave him behind, both of them knowing he would be deported back to North Korea. I didn’t even get the chance to say “Mummy is coming back”, so Chol didn’t know what happened. ‘Living here you cannot imagine what it is like in North Korea.

Source: Daily Mail February 17, 2021 22:08 UTC