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The North Korean defector, known as Hee Yeon Lim for safety reasons, has revealed how even Kim Jong-un’s inner-circle live in fear of the crazed dictator. Growing up in Pyongyang the 26-year-old avoided the worst of the crushing poverty experienced by much of the country. Ms Lim chose to flee the prison state after being forced to watch brutal public executions and seeing her classmates forced into sex slavery.

GETTY A North Korean defector has revealed the horrors of life in Pyongyang’s elite

She fled North Korea with her mother and younger brother despite being one of the few thousands privileged families allowed to live in the capital of Pyongyang. Ms Lim told The Mirror: “I had friends like any other kids. But we knew from an early age what not to say - never to question the then leader Kim Jong- Il - Kim Jong-Un’s father even when I was young." Her comments come as President Donald Trump used his first speech to the United Nations to demand Kim Jong-un stop North Korea's nuclear programme.

I saw terrible things in Pyongyang Defector Hee Yeon Lim

As the daughter of a general Ms Lim enjoyed perks including state-provided housing and a family driver who tok her to school everyday, however she was not spared the the brutality of the regime. Ms Lim said: "Even when I grew up I thought I had a normal life, always with the restriction publicly of not having anything other than adoration for the regime. "Despite our privilege we were scared. I saw terrible things in Pyongyang."

Ri Sol-ju, Kim Jong-un’s wife in pictures Wed, September 13, 2017 Kim Jong-un was reportedly married to Ri Sol-ju in 2012, but very little is know about her. She has taken long spells away from public appearances, reputedly due to pregnancy Play slideshow EPA 1 of 10 Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju watch a joint performance by the State Merited Chorus and the Moranbong Band to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea

Recalling the moment she was forced to watch the execution of 11 musicians, who were accused of making a a pornographic video, she said: “What I saw that day made me sick in my stomach. They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns.” Ms Lim just a girl at the time was taken out of school by soldiers to watch the brutal spectacle alongside her fellow pupils and 10,000 other people at the Military Academy in Pyongyang. The brave survivor recalled: “A gun was fired, the noise was deafening, absolutely terrifying and the guns were fired one after the other. “The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere.

GETTY Children are raised in North Korea to view Kim Jong-un as like-god

“And then after that military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay." The executions, which took place shortly after Kim Jong-un took control of the country following the death of his father and left the young Ms Lim unable to eat for days. Ms Lim revealed she was raised to believe the Korean despot was god-like, but as a schoolgirl she saw his cruelty as teenage pupils were plucked out of class to work as sex slaves in his many houses. Speaking from a secret location in Seoul, she said: “Officials came to our schools and picked out teenage girls to work at one of his 'hundreds' of homes around Pyongyang.

GETTY Even Kim Jong-un’s inner-circle live in constant fear, Hee Yeon revealed

“They take the prettiest and ensure they have straight, good legs. “They learn to serve him food like caviar and extremely rare delicacies. They are also taught how to massage him and they became sex slaves.” She described Kim Jong-un as a paranoid leader who is willing to execute anyone including family members to remain in power. Earlier this year, Kim Jong-un is believed to have had his half-brother Kim Jong-nam killed by a nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur after fearing he was involved in a Chinese plot to replace as North Korean leader.

GETTY Kim’s half brother Kim Jong Nam was executed in Kuala Lumpur