Posted on 07/19/2015 11:40:47 AM PDT by rickmichaels
“It is ridiculous, the hairstyle he has, everything,” says Hyeonseo Lee.
She is talking about Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of North Korea and in her old life, before her defection from the tightly controlled regime, saying such a thing would condemn her and her family to prison or to death.
“I could kill three generations of my family,” she says.
Lee defected at 17, embarking on a perilous journey. Now 34, she has finally written her account of life and escape from the Hermit Kingdom in a new book, The Girl With Seven Names.
The woman was raised in a relatively privileged manner, a middle-class existence because of her stepfather’s job with the North Korean military, but even so she attended her first public execution at the age of seven — a stark lesson in obedience.
Seeing a man hanged under a railway bridge — one of many such public executions that are mandatory for people to see, she says — was only one of the grotesque means of control the regime waged against its citizens.
As in many authoritarian countries, for example, Lee’s family displayed portraits of the ruling family in their home, first Great Leader Kim Il-sung, then his son and heir Dear Leader Kim Jong-il and, later, his son and heir Kim Jong-un. The government gave them a special cloth for cleaning the portraits and nothing else. The pictures had to be the most prominent in any room, hung the highest, perfectly aligned and on a wall containing no other adornment.
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Bkmrk.
So many Americans are also in that kind of boat. But our captain is different.
This woman has a certain courage, which the likes of ESPN and Bruce Jenner just can’t comprehend. To liberals, it is courageous to come out as homosexual or transgender, in a culture which celebrates this “diversity”.
The liberals won’t understand the courage involved with this woman defecting and then publishing this book.
So, when do we normalize relations with North Korea?
Maybe the leftists in this country will see all the lies they believe in.
She is OUTSTANDING, especially considering what she dealt with. Hopefully the bad memories will fade with time, or somehow be erased.
The public executions haven’t started here.
Here's Kawehi doing a cover of Nine Inch Nail's 'Closer'.
Be warned. This is not safe for work.
Hey, honey, wanna come to a REAL first-world country?
The U.S.A? Bwahahahahaha!
I wonder what her complete pedigree is, she looks like she has a lot of Chinese in her.
Very pretty.
If East Germany had been able to somehow jam West German radio and TV they might still be in business.
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