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21-year-old Yeonmi Park and her epic escape from North Korea

21-year-old Yeonmi Park was born in North Korea and exposed to the country's regime from an early age. As a teenager, she escaped from the country and made a challenging journey through China and across the Gobi desert to freedom in South Korea. She is a delegate at this year's One Young World Summit in Dublin. On the line from there, she told Matthew Bannister when she first experienced the North Korean regime

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