Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.
Joseph Kim: Rodina, kterou jsem ztratil v Severní Koreji. A rodina, kterou jsem získal.
Joseph Kim escaped alone from North Korea at the age of 16, first to China and then to the United States. Full bio
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zemřelo hladem
jakou jsem kdy v životě udělal.
na nelegálních trzích.
jako můj otec v Severní Koreji,
a bál jsem se tmy,
uměl jediné slůvko anglicky,
že musím na střední školu.
než jednou denně.
ale hluboce mě to ranilo.
které mi můj pěstounský otec dal.
že já mám v Americe tolik jídla
za vynikající výsledky
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joseph Kim - North Korean refugeeJoseph Kim escaped alone from North Korea at the age of 16, first to China and then to the United States.
Why you should listen
Joseph Kim is from the northern region of North Korea. Growing up during the great famine of the 1990s, at the age of 12 Joseph saw his father starve to death, his mother disappear and his sister flee to China to search for food. In 2006, when he was 16, he decided to make the dangerous escape alone out of North Korea to look for food -- and for his sister. While hiding in China, he met a Korean-Chinese grandmother who protected and fed him until he found help from Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a NGO that provided more stabilized shelter and later helped him to escape to the United States.
Joseph arrived in the U.S. in 2007 as a refugee. He is now in college studying international business. He is still searching for his sister.
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