From slave to public servant: a woman’s remarkable story

Council candidate has found a home in England after surviving North Korean prison camps and Chinese traffickers

24 March 2021 - 20:00 By Natalie Thomas, Andy Bruce and Phil Noble

Sixteen years after she was left to die unremembered outside a labour camp in North Korea, Jihyun Park will enter the British political history books if she wins office in local elections in May...

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