We’ll come to the Songbun and its importance later. She is from a well-to-do family who has a high ‘Songbun’, especially in the context of North Korea.īeing from a financially stable and a high ‘Songbun’ means a lot in North Korea. Hyeonseo Lee was born and brought up in Hyesan, on the banks of Yalu river, the ancient river boundary between China and North Korea. In fact, Hyeonseo Lee is not her real name. She is one of those luckiest people who somehow managed to escape from the brutal regime of the Kim dynasty in North Korea. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean defector and currently the citizen of South Korea. Now, we will come to the protagonist of this book, Hyeonseo Lee. Albeit, with time Iraq was removed from that list and at present only Iran and North Korean are there in this so called axis of evil.Īnd North Korea deserved to be there. It’s one of the famous epithets given to few countries by the former president of the United States of America, George W Bush.Īxis of evil consists of Iran, Iraq and North Korean. Let’s assume that you might think that it’s a country in East Asia or one of the few remaining communist countries left in the world or might be something else.Īlthough, some of you may have heard the term, ‘Axis of evil’.
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