N. Korea’s girl with seven names still feels haunted


Hyeonseo Lee who came to South Korea in 2008, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Seoul, in this May 29, 2013 file photo. The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors have used for years. Picture taken May 29, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Files

UBUD (Indonesia): The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalin­­­ist North Korea on the undergroundmo­­­bile phone link defectors have used for years.

Hyeonseo Lee (pic) is also increasingly worried about her personal security since the July publication of the best-selling memoir about her escape from North Korea, The Girl with Seven Names.

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