In 2010, Yeon-mi Park escaped from North Korea with her mother and father. During the two years that it took for her to travel to Seoul (which is only 50 kilometres, but a world away from North Korea), Yeon-mi’s father died in the border lands with China and Yeon-mi had to bury him in the mountains in the middle of the night. Here she tells her story of escape from North Korea and a regime that would execute people simply for watching a Hollywood movie. Looking at my own almost one-year-old daughter, I ponder on what I would do if I was in the situation her own mother found herself in. And I reflect on the torturous road the vast majority of refugees have travelled to find freedom and save their children from a future that has no hope…