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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Today we have an incredible,

incredible interview for you. This is one of those exchanges I finished recently and said

this is a before and after moment for me, meeting this woman, hearing her story. I've

thought about it every single day since we did it and we did it a couple of weeks ago.

And I think you're going to feel the same when you hear the story of Yon Mi Park. She's

here for the full show. You may have heard her name, possibly her story before, but not

like this. Yon Mi Park became a household name for many in America thanks to her 2015

memoir, an extraordinary piece called, in order to live, a North Korean girl's journey

to freedom. It was published when she was just 21 years old, but her story of course starts

much earlier. She was born and raised in North Korea and escaped. And that is the right

word escaped to China when she was 13. Her incredibly perilous danger, dangerous journey

did not end there though. She was not fully free until 2011, just before she turned 18

and she finally made it to South Korea and eventually to America. She's still so young.

I sat there listening to her story and as you hear it yourselves, you're going to think

what I thought, this is unbelievable. This is absolutely incredible. And it got me wondering

when the interview was over, like, is this incredible? Like could this stuff have actually

happened? We should were journalists go ahead and do a fact check on it. Like we do for

any of these in depth pieces we do. And we went back and started fact checking some of

the things that Yonmi told us. And they checked out as incredible as they were. Her descriptions

of North Korea checked out other people who have escaped have told very similar stories

around the same time. A couple details here or there that whatever. But yes, it checked

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