Grace Jo, Vice President of NKinUSA (North Korean Refugees in the United States), speaks out at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy.
Grace Jo spoke about the hardships and horrors she and her family endured trying to escape the country over the course of a decade. Grace Jo revealed her grandmother’s dying wish was to eat a baked potato. Her father was tortured for fleeing the country in search of food. Her oldest sister is still missing.
Only three out of the eight members of her family survived in North Korea. After Grace Jo’s mother lost her husband, mother and four children, she fled with Jo and her sister to China. Over the following 10 years, they were sent back to North Korea twice.
Finally, with the help of a Korean-American pastor and the United Nations Refugee Agency, Grace Jo's family members were able to move to the United States as recognized refugees.
https://www.huntnewsnu.com/2018/02/north-korean-defector-speaks-out-at-harvard/
Grace Jo spoke about the hardships and horrors she and her family endured trying to escape the country over the course of a decade. Grace Jo revealed her grandmother’s dying wish was to eat a baked potato. Her father was tortured for fleeing the country in search of food. Her oldest sister is still missing.
Only three out of the eight members of her family survived in North Korea. After Grace Jo’s mother lost her husband, mother and four children, she fled with Jo and her sister to China. Over the following 10 years, they were sent back to North Korea twice.
Finally, with the help of a Korean-American pastor and the United Nations Refugee Agency, Grace Jo's family members were able to move to the United States as recognized refugees.
https://www.huntnewsnu.com/2018/02/north-korean-defector-speaks-out-at-harvard/
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