JI HYUN PARK escaped the cruel North Korean regime twice - fleeing across the border over a frozen river with a hail of bullets flying at her back. In an incredible tale of human resilience, Ji told the Sun how she was trafficked to an abusive husband in China , where she gave birth to a son, before officials ripped him from her arms just five years later. Advertisement 6 Ji Hyun Park spoke to The Sun about her harrowing journey Credit: Ellie Doughty /The Sun 6 North Korean soldiers march during a mass military parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square Credit: AP 6 Women, photographed from the Chinese side of the border, cross the bridge from Namyang in North Korea towards the town of Tumen Credit: Reuters She would later escape North Korea for the second time - making her way all the back to China to save her young son.

Years later they made their way to the UK alongside another brave defector who had saved Ji's life and would go on to become her husband. Ji, now 56, endured a decade of horrors in her brave efforts to escape the authoritarian regime, now in the grip of despot Kim Jong-Un. She told how she was treated like an "animal", beaten and raped by the man who bought her.

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