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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Eating grass and seeing executions: 'This is North Korea'

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A woman who escaped from North Korea has been describing what life within the country's regime is really like. Yeonmi Park, 21, fled to China in 2007 in search of a better life. She said that in North Korea she was forced to eat grass and insects to survive, and witnessed her friend's mother being executed for watching an American film. This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on October 30 2014.

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