Pyongyang (HRNW) A former teacher who fled North Korea and eventually found a life in the UK is set to run for office in upcoming local elections.
Jihyun Park will enter the British political history books if she wins a seat in local elections in early May.
She is standing as a candidate for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in the northern English town of Bury.
Park first left North Korea in 1998 with her brother after they witnessed their father and uncle starve to death in a famine that swept the secretive country.
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