North Korean Defectors Describe Living in South Korean Freedom

Park Sang-Hak, who heads a group of North Korean defectors, tears a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an anti-North Korea rally outside South Korean government complex in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2017. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images

North Korean defectors don’t have an easy time when they try to get away from North Korea, both on a physical and mental level.

But North Korean defectors are speaking up, describing the huge adjustments they have to make to fit in with a normal functioning modern society. The roads that North and South Korea have taken after seven decades of separation make them look like two separate world’s that are set right next to each other.