North Korea defector pleads for food for her countrymen

North Korean defector turned human rights activist Yeonmi Park wants the world to help those who couldn’t escape.

She has not forgotten the suffering she escaped, but she thinks the rest of the world has.

“The people in North Korea have been forgotten for 70 years,” she said at a press conference on April 3.

“I am not even asking you to do something, just feed them. “We have technology to go to the moon, we have technology to anything now. But why not North Korea?”

Park said the media should cover the travails of North Korea’s people, not the missiles and nuclear tests.

Park was 13 when she fled her home nation ten years ago, escaping through China and Mongolia. She settled in South Korea in 2009 and turned to human rights work.