She served in the army, then found herself in the hands of the mafia: refugee told about life in the DPRK

Soyon Lee served in the North Korean Army, worked hard in a coal mine, got into the hands of the Chinese "marriage mafia" and fled to South Korea on a boat. So far, her son remains in the DPRK camps. Soli Lee was born in the Korean People's Democratic Republic in 1975, and during her life in her native country she had to face hard work, famine, violence and uninvited living conditions.

She has managed to escape abroad, now the village lives in South Korea and manages the organization for North Korean Refugees. A woman told Bild about what life in her homeland is. Sol Lee was born into a professor's family, devoted to the ideals of the party. In order to join the Government Party, she had been serving for 10 years in the North Korean Army. There, her views on the ideas of dominant in the DPRK of the regime began to change dramatically.

"Instead of serving my people, I had to plunder the fields in a soldier in a soldier," Lee said. By the age of 27, she lived in a closed space with other women-soldiers, in a constant famine, suffering from abuse of management. After the army, Soyon was unable to join the university and was forced to work in a coal mine without instruments for two years. In 2006, the impetus for fleeing to China in 2006 was domestic violence, which the woman was married.

"It has taken my last joy in life," said the Soyon. Escape is a very risky event, because those who cross the border can catch and turn back Chinese police. The defectors are considered traitors, deported to the camps and are particularly cruel there. With the help of Lee turned to smugglers, who turned out to be the so -called "marriage mafia". Criminals from China and North Korea promise North Korean women to help escape abroad, provide work and a decent salary.

Instead, women are threatened with rape, coercive marriage and involvement in prostitution. Lee finally managed to escape from China to South Korea in 2014, but had to leave a twelve -year -old son for a "iron curtain". She tried to take out the baby, already with enough money and contacts, but the Chinese authorities detained him and released back to the DPRK. Now 21-year-old Khan Chong Chong, according to Soyon, remains in one of the camps Kim Jong-in.

"He was brutally mocked, knocking his teeth, breaking his legs. But he is still alive, that's all I know," Lee said. Now the woman manages the Organization for North Korean Refugees in Pyontek in South Korea. Journalists say that since 1998, about 35,000 North Koreans have been able to escape to South Korea from the DPRK. We will remind, on October 24 Reuters reported that Kim Jong -in regime takes hostages of the family sent to Russia.