'Why is the world allowing a holocaust to happen again?' Brave North Korean shares harrowing story of escape
North Korean student says bodies rot in the streets of her homeland
Yeonmi Park gestured out the window towards the view of the Royal Canal in Dublin, where an unsightly flotilla of plastic bottles floats on the surface, trapped by the lock.
"If this was North Korea, it would be bodies," she said.
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