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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 749 Chops 257: Escape From North Korea

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jihyun Park's new book, The Hard Road Out, details how she escaped, not once, but twice, from one of the world's most repressive and secretive regimes: North Korea. She talks to Hannah about why, with the help of South Korean writer Seh-Lynn Chai, she's now chosen to tell her story, about brainwashing, escape, sexual exploitation, and a new life for Jihyun and her family in the UK.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Waitrose have added more of your favourites to their new lower prices.

0:03.6

Or is it new, new, lower prices, or newer, new, lower prices?

0:07.9

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0:11.7

Or even the newest of new, lower prices on more.

0:14.2

Ernie, whoo! Waitrose have new, new, lower prices on hundreds of your favourites,

0:19.4

like apples, chicken, and those cheeky ginger nuts. Waitrose.

0:23.0

Food to feel good about.

0:25.0

Selected stores, subjects with availability, prices may vary in a little Waitrose channel islands and concessions.

0:29.9

Hello and welcome to this week's Chops, Hannah Hare, but you knew that, right?

0:51.6

This week I've a super interesting interview for you with Joy Young Park,

0:57.6

who's new nonfiction book details her escape from North Korea.

1:02.7

Called The Hard Road Out, it tells the story of Joy Young's life inside the notoriously repressive

1:10.9

and highly secretive state, where she was born in the late 1960s.

1:16.4

In the late 90s, during a devastating famine, she escaped to China with some members of her family,

1:23.0

although she was forced to leave her dying father.

1:26.4

When she arrived in China, she was raped, sold to a Chinese farmer for about £650.

1:33.1

Anne made to marry him. They had a son together before she was captured and returned to North Korea,

1:39.3

where she was put in a prison camp for several years.

1:43.3

After being injured there while working, her leg became infected and she was essentially left to die in the street.

1:50.4

But again, somehow she managed to escape to China where she retrieved her son

1:55.7

and eventually made it to the UK where she now lives.

1:59.7

It's an incredible story and her book is absolutely worth a read.

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