A review by packt_sardines
The Hard Road Out: One Woman's Escape from North Korea by Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai

4.0

A brilliant read, but I cannot make sense of the fact that the author, so conscious of her status as a refugee and so set on (rightly) highlighting the importance of asylum, is now a member of the Conservative Party: the very same party that is trying to criminalise her experience and make it near impossible for anyone to reach the UK in need of help. She joins the bizarre list of North Korean defectors who have since fallen prey of right-wing hysteria in the West: the author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang whose name I can’t remember (praising His Lord and Saviour G. W. Bush) and Yeonmi Park (besties with alt-right lunatic Jordan Peterson) being the other two.