AS A child Hyeonseo Lee was brainwashed into thinking North Korea was the best country in the world. But something didn’t feel right. Each night as North Korea plunged into darkness because of ...

Hyeonseo Lee describes North Korean propaganda, explains living under the Kim regime, ... As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee believed that her country was the best on the planet.

North Korean defector speaks of what her life was like in North Korea before escaping and beyond. What a brave and amazing woman to share her story with the world! CC BY TEDTalentSearch, Hyeonseo ...

A handful of North Korean defectors are publishing their memoirs this summer. Among the harrowing accounts is “The Girl With Seven Names,” by Hyeonseo Lee, who walked out of the country when ...

Hyeonseo Lee: When I explain to people what was the situation in North Korea, they think, ... a child 5- 600 grams of rice and a woman 400 grams. This describes a person’s value.

The North Korean defector answers your questions: from growing up hating America to settling in South Korea I’m afraid that’s all we’ve got time for today. Here’s a parting note from ...

Hyeonseo Lee, 31, had to denounce her friends, dig tunnels for a possible nuclear attack and grew up loving leader Kim Il-sung like other children love Santa Claus but managed to escape aged 17.

Hyeonseo Lee escaped from North Korea--home to one of the most repressive governments in the world--when she was just 17. Then she risked her life to get her family out. You won't forget her story.

Hyeonseo Lee, working at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, in Seoul. CBS ... The child who was taught to hate the U.S. is now engaged to a classmate from Wisconsin.

Hyeonseo Lee, 33, who came to South Korea in 2008, in Seoul, May 29, 2013. ... Beggars and vagrant children began to appear in the town and corpses turned up in the river.

But Hyeonseo Lee’s pioneering memoir The Girl With Seven Names contains great humour alongside its shocking evocation of the North Korean regime’s surveillance, torture, privation and propaganda.