In this 2017 interview with 60 Minutes, Sungju Lee reveals what his life was like inside the notoriously secretive North Korea, before he defected in 2002 at the age of 16. His personal account of growing up in a country cut off from the rest of the world is a genuine insight into a place and a reality that many outside the borders of DPRK are not allowed to witness.
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