How A Teenager Escaped From North Korea
The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 3, 2015
This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on July 7, 2015.
Hyeonseo Lee grew up under North Korea’s communist regime, but her home was on the border with China, which gave her some exposure to the rest of the world. As the famine of the 1990s struck, she decided to escape, at the age of seventeen. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story is the story of how she adapted and survived once she fled to China, and how she returned to the North Korean border over a decade later to rescue her mother and brother.
