In Order to Live test

Songbun

A Korean system that keeps status on your family's political, social and economic background, which places you in ranks.

Yeonmi and her mother had been forced into sexual slavery and were abused

After Yeonmi and her mother escaped to China, what secondary struggle did they endure?

Yeonmi

Author of the book; escaped North Korea in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009. She is now a human rights activists

Kim Jong II

Former North Korean dictator and second supreme dictator from 1942 until his death in 2011. His older son, Kim Jung Un is currently the supreme leader.

Yeonmi's Father

His real name was Park Jin Sink. Worked at the Hyesan Town hall as the ruling workers party. He also worked on the black market by buying and selling sugar, ells, and cigars. He also smuggled precious metal from North Korea into China. He was caught in 2002 and sent to prison for three years.

They joined a religious group that eventually helped them cross the border. When they crossed the border, soldiers found them and took them to the army base so they were safe.

How did Yeonmi escape from China and into South Korea?

Pyongyang

North Korea's capital that Yeonmi visited when she was little.

Seol

In South Korea; Yeonmi and her mother started their new life there. They are free to go to school and they have religious freedom.

Hyesan

One of the major border cities in North Korea. Also borders China.

Kim II Sung

Ruler of North Korea who believed and thought that he was immortal. Known as the "Great Leader". the North Koreans were told he died from a heart attack, but the South Koreans had rumors that he died from a disease, mental illness, or emotional stress

Was Sun

She was Yeonmi's father's secretary and helped him with the smuggling of metals and other things. She is also the girl her father cheated on her mother with

She realized that they only taught about Korean history, and about the Kims and not about the other world outside Korea.

Upon being enrolled in school in South Korea, what did Yeonmi realize about her prior education in North Korea?

Yeonmi's Mother

Very sacrificial for her kids. She traded items on the black market and was also an army nurse.

A tough childhood with very little food and lots of heart break and desperation

What was her childhood like?

Yong Ja

Yeonmi's best friend in her home Hyesan where they made paper dolls

Eunmi

Yeonmi's sister who went missing for seven years. She escaped on her own because Yeonmi could not travel

Hongwei

he helped Yeonmi get her dad into the country but he was a also a trafficker

Huang

someone that lived in China and kidnapped Yeonmi

Juche

the official ideology that has contributed to the poverty and oppression of the North Korean people. In North Korea it is called, "Kim Jung Sung's original, brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national and international thought".