AS A 17-year-old, Hyeonseo Lee’s childhood home in North Korea overlooked the border with China and this is one of the reasons she started questioning whether she really had “nothing to envy”.

I met North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee in Norway at the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2016. The forum brings together activists and dissidents from the far corners of the earth to tell their stories ...

Hyeonseo Lee describes North Korean propaganda, explains living under the Kim regime, and raises awareness of the human rights abuses in her home country.

Hyeonseo Lee left North Korea when she was 17. Now 38, she calls the recent meeting between Kim Jong Un and President Moon Jae-in "stunning," and says her greatest hope is reunification.

Hyeonseo Lee says she never imagined that it would take 14 years for her family to live together again.

“The Girl With Seven Names” (William Collins), by Hyeonseo Lee with David John Escaping North Korea was the easy part. In her memoir, “The Girl With Seven Names,” Hyeonseo Lee, as she is ...

North Korean defector speaks of what her life was like in North Korea before escaping and beyond. What a brave and amazing woman to share her story with the world! CC BY TEDTalentSearch, Hyeonseo ...

Hyeonseo Lee escaped from North Korea--home to one of the most repressive governments in the world--when she was just 17. Then she risked her life to get her family out. You won't forget her story.

Director Madeleine Gavin came onto the project after meeting Hyeonseo Lee, author of the book The Girl with Seven Names, who fled North Korea 25 years ago.