‘I was enslaved and tortured but escaped North Korea twice – and found happiness in the UK’

🇰🇵 After overcoming unimaginable hardships, Jihyun Park says Kim Jong-Un is a ‘21st century Hitler’ who prioritises missiles over vaccines

Until May, Jihyun Park’s native North Korea had declared itself a Covid-free zone: the hermit state apparently untouched by two years of a global pandemic. Now, it has admitted to 2.8 million cases of omicron and 68 deaths – a number that is likely a fiction of understatement says Park, who, after escaping the country twice, last year ran as a Conservative councillor in north west England and is now a human rights activist. “North Korea is never telling the truth about Covid,” she says.

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