Jihyun Park

Jihyun Park's biography of her life in North Korea, the terrors of living in an authoritarian regime, and her "escape" into slavery after being trafficed into China, is both horrifying and inspirational. That she found asylum and a new life in Britain is wonderful, that she lost and is separated from so many family members, tragic. I'm glad she's found a haven, now, in Lancashire.

Her decision to join the UK's Conservative Party and run as their local government candidate, whilst still one I feel saddened by, makes sense in the context of the suffering she experienced under the rule of notionally socialist North Korea. Her story exemplifies the need for a kinder immigration and asylum system than the one so poorly and punitively managed by the political party she represents.… (más)