Yeon Mi Park escaped North Korea when she was 13 years old. And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape.

Yeon Mi Park escaped North Korea when she was 13 years old. And escape only brought more challenges. North Korean defectors risk being killed, imprisoned, and trafficked after they escape.

a North Korean defector. Lee Seongmin, a 37-year-old human-rights worker who is an Ivy League graduate and fluent in English, has helped Ukrainian forces understand the motives driving Kim Jong Un ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and the author of "The Girl With Seven Names." She tells us what life was really like in North Korea until she fled at the ...

Every year, hundreds of people make the perilous journey out of North Korea as they escape from the "hermit kingdom". But the number of defectors ... Video by Hosu Lee. Voiceover by Laura Bicker.