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'When I was in North Korea all I wanted was something to eat'
Yeonmi Park escaped from North Korea when she was 13, enduring a journey with traffickers across China and through the Gobi Desert before reaching safety in South Korea. Now she's a student a world away in New York City.
(Picture credit: Penguin Random House)
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