21-year-old North Korean refugee girl sees her country as the darkest place in the world

Yeonmi Park is 21-year-old refugee of North Korea and, while speaking at One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin, she has described her country as the ‘darkest country in the world’ dailymail.co.uk.

Present on the occasion were Kofi Annan, Sir Bob Geldof, the former Mexican president Vicente Fox, and Dame Ellen MacArthur, the world record-breaking sailor.
Yeonmi Park was born on October 4 1993 in Hyesan – this is a notoriously cold river port along North Korea’s 850-mile northern border with China and she was abducted at birth, even before she knew the words freedom or human rights.
When she was just nine years old, she was invited to watch the mother of her friend be publicly shot because she had dared to watch a Hollywood movie.
Yeonmi Park has been robbed of her youth, innocence and freedom and has, at last, spoken out against her native North Korea from where she has managed to escape.
In the course of her emotionally charged speech, she has narrated a harrowing tale about what life was like for her family and friends under the barbaric and oppressive regime of Kim Jong-il.

She has called for a global movement to throw light on this country where the internet is banned, along with songs, books, international phone-calls and voicing basic opinions and people live in constant fear of the brutal consequences that await them if they dare to step out of line.