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Yeonmi Park

This person is the author and narrator of In Order to Live. She tells the story of her escape from North Korea to China and how she finally found freedom in South Korea.

Park Jin Sik

This person was a husband and father of two daughters. He ran a smuggling business in North Korea.

Keum Sook

This person was a wife and mother of two daughters. She helped her husband run his smuggling business. She escaped from North Korea with her youngest daughter.

Chun Guen

This person was the son of a professor and an official in the Workers’ Party in North Korea. He fell in love with a girl of low caste.

Hongwei

This person was a broker and trafficked North Korean women. He took a 13-year-old girl as his mistress.

Preacher

This person was a minister at the Qingdao mission.

Eunmi

This person was the...

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