Log #8

In Order to Live

Yeonmi Park

        Identity is who a person is, or the quality of a person or group that makes it different from others. Every people need identity to live, so does Yeonmi. She need to have an ID card in order to work. Only finding the job could help her and her mother to earn money to live. On the way she asked for someone to get an ID card, she was kidnapped by the man, Huang. Fortunately, Hongwei saved her again, and he decided to let her go instead of forcing Yeonmi to stay with him. Finally, Yeonmi and her mother were on the way of freedom－heading for South Korea. Far from their image, they were regarded as criminals after they reached there. They were sent into the prison. All they could do were watching the birds outside the window and dreaming that they could be the birds to regain freedom one day.

        As for Yeonmi’s experiences, I feel pity in her. All she wants is to live with freedom. It’s regretful that the North Korean Government cannot guarantee the human right for its people. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. It’s unfair for these North Korean people to be treated as criminals in other countries. They were so eager to have the freedom, but they failed to make it.

        I hope in the following chapters in which I can see these North Korean people regain their freedom and be treated like most of the people living on earth.