To the other side

"We can be happy under the dictatorship as we do not know what freedom is. I was so naive that I did not realize that if I left North Korea, there would be no turning back. "In Paris, where Hyeonseo Lee is promoting his autobiography, no one would believe in view so cheerful and youthful, she is 35 and already several lives. She was born in Hyesan, North Korea a border city of China. With a grandmother communist pioneer from the '40s, his family has excellent Songbun. This rank very high in the implacable caste system that governs society, crushed under the dictatorship of the Kim dynasty since the 50s, provides a certain freedom of movement and enterprise. The eight children of the grandmother thrive in business, cinema or drug trafficking. But it would be enough of an information or a cousin who defected to throw the whole line in the depths of society.
Hyeonseo claims to have grown up carelessly in this corrupt world, morality perverted, where drugs directly out of state laboratories, and where she attends her first public performance at 7 years. During the famine of 1995, while it sees the corpses float down the river, children become skeletal and his accordion teacher dies literally starving, the girl provides the "dollar store" thanks to the flourishing his mother smuggling business. Just she notices that the "dear leader" Kim Jong-it always seems as healthy. "The Kim were our gods. Until the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994, I thought he was immortal. "