Stay and endure a life of privation and oppression or escape and risk being sold into sexual slavery: That is the stark choice facing many women in North Korean, bestselling author and activist Lee ...

Lee Hyeon-seo, 33, who came to South Korea in 2008, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, May 29, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Files By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

As a schoolgirl in North Korea, Lee Hyeon-seo was forced to watch executions, denounce her friends for fabricated transgressions and dig tunnels in case of a nuclear attack. But Lee and her classmates ...