#217 - Dan Chung

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She escaped North Korea and eventually reached safety in South Korea. Years later, she still sleeps with her shoes beside the bed because part of her remains prepared to run.Dan Chung, Executive Director of Crossing Borders and author of *A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees*, joins Eric to share the extraordinary stories of people who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive regimes.Dan describes North Korean women trafficked after crossing into China, a mother whose dying son asked for one final bowl of rice, a young refugee who spent two years unable to leave an embassy, and the lasting trauma many refugees carry long after reaching freedom.Eric and Dan…