By now the horrors of life in North Korea under Kim Jong-un are well known: it is a totalitarian state where tens of thousands of people are enslaved and tortured.

What is less well known is that those who brave the cruel journey across the border to China are rarely given the shelter they crave. Instead, if found out, they are arrested and forced to return to North Korea – to face imprisonment, torture and even death.

In this video Park Ji-hyun tells her real life story of bravely escaping near starvation in North Korea to China, only to be torn away from her son and forced back to the country she fled.

Break the conspiracy of silence: share this video and tell Ji-hyun's story.

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