2 Essays - Geography Of Asia, East Asia, Forms Of Government

2 Essays - Geography Of Asia, East Asia, Forms Of Government Escape From North Korea: Hyeonseo Lee At Ted2013 Student's name Institution affiliation Instructor's name Course Date of submission Introduction In the world today many challenges are significantly affecting people. Increased civil war and famine are some of the factors that have led to many people seeking asylum in neighboring countries. Some of these challenges have significantly affected people lives, others have lost their lives, either by execution, police brutality, terrorist attacks or hunger. In the case of Ms. Lee, she is separated from the rest of the family at the age of fourteen. She goes through trying moments in her life; this vividly portrays the sufferings of many people around the world though there is no one to address them. Ms. Lee describes how she faced life having to go through various crises. As a young girl, she remained focus and determine. In her early life at the age of 7, Ms. Lee experienced public prosecution in her motherland. She never knew what was happening in the outside world. She was forced to think that her mother North Korea was the best place on the planet even though there were many challenges that they were going through in their motherland. She was almost caught by the Chinese aut horities for illegal migration , (Reddy, 2010) . Ms. Lee was forced to be separated from the rest of the family at a tender age even though she thought she would reunite with them she spends more than 14 years seeking asylum in China. She explains how dead bodies we re floating in the in the river; this was from people who tried to cross this river to seek refuge in China. During the 1990s famine that had struck North Korea, Ms. Lee saw how people were suffering mercilessly; she says pe ople were eating grass and tree barks to survive. After sending money to her relatives, they were intercepted by the North Korean authority. This was so demoralizing, but she remained strong, but it never made her lose hope in her life, even though matter the challenges she faced her many problems. Throughout her life she went through hard times, she had to bribe authorities in the jail to get her family members freedom. She was subjected to brutal tests by the Chinese police because someone had accused her of being a North Korean. She remained determined though scared she spoke Chinese proving without no reasonable doubt that she was a Chinese . Her family was thrown to jail after a long journey seeking to seek asylum. After realizing her family suffering, she used all thy money she had to buy their freedom into Laos. Even after thinking that she had won the battle after using all money she had to bribe border guards at Laos, her family was arrested and jailed for illegal border crossing. At this time in her life, she had lost hope; she had no one to run to for her rescue. Experience in North Korea was so devastating that some of the illegal migrants were prosecuted and executed. In Ms. Lee struggle in an asylum for her freedom, she experiences some unexpected moment, even though she never gave up. Also, she used all the money she had to rescue her family members from jail; things were almost going against her because she had nearly lost hope. After At this time she met a stranger who turned out to be her savior, after narrating her frustrations, she was helped to get her parents from jail. Also, she was almost caught while trying to cross her family to Laos even though she laid to the authorities that they all damp. Ms. Lee thought no one cared about the sufferings of North Koreans, although she was not exposed to the outside world. In her school time, she was forced to believe that her country was the best on the planet. She never knew what the outside world had , ( Fowler, 2012 ) . This could have led her making a negative response because she never believed that someone could miss something to eat. After coming into eye contact with the mother of the emaciated child and getting g report from