A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea in 1986 during the reign of Kim Jong-Il, the socialist leader of one the most oppressive countries. Up until the age of 11, Eunsun lived what for her was a normal happy childhood, despite the increasingly constant hunger and the school field trips to public executions.
As the country grows deeper into despair and famine, Eunsun loses her grandparents and father to starvation. After surviving on next to nothing for months, Eunsun's mother realizes that if she and her two daughters are going to survive, they need to escape North Korea. Once the decision is made, they embark on a journey that ends up taking them 9 years to complete and leads them to human traffickers in China, through a labor camp in North Korea and the deserts of Mongolia.
This is an amazing story of survival and the will to live and also reveals the horrific wrongs that are still taking place in North Korea by a regime that cares only about power and has no care for the tens of millions of North Koreans that are starving and abused.
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