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Surviving on Dragonflies: A North Korean Defector's Story
Surviving on Dragonflies: A North Korean Defector's Story #GZW137 #CL0 #YeonmiPark
June 17, 2019
"Seeing dead bodies on the street was a part of everyday life." Growing up in North Korea, Yeonmi Park says she survived the great famine of the 1990s by foraging for grasshoppers and dragonflies. Today she is a human rights activist living in Chicago. How she got from there to here is the story of a lifetime. And it's the subject of this special edition of GZERO World.
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