“We Were Sold for $300”: Defectors Expose Kim Jong-un’s Horrors at UN

Their stories stunned diplomats, and painted a grim picture of life inside the Hermit Kingdom.

Two Brave Women Take On Kim Jong-un

Two North Korean defectors gave heart-wrenching testimony in an extraordinary moment at the UN General Assembly.

They were urging world leaders to put Kim Jong-un on trial for crimes against humanity.

Eunju Kim: “We Were Sold Like Objects for $300”

Eunju Kim escaped North Korea not once, but twice. After fleeing starvation with her mother and sister in 1999, they were captured in China and sold to a man for less than $300.

When they were arrested and sent back, they escaped again in 2002. Her father, she said, died of hunger.

“My Friends Were Executed for Watching South Korean TV”

Gyuri fled during the COVID-19 pandemic after enduring religious persecution.

Her testimony shocked the room: three of her friends were executed, two of them for the “crime” of watching South Korean dramas.

Her grandmother’s Christian faith also put their entire family at risk.

North Korea ‘Traps Its People in Isolation’

UN investigator Elizabeth Salmón said North Koreans are living in “absolute isolation” since the pandemic began.

Border closures and new laws have worsened an already dire human rights situation, with reports of public executions and starvation on the rise.

Forced Labour and Military Exploitation Highlighted

Salmón also raised alarms over North Korea’s “extreme militarisation”, which exploits its population to fund weapons programs.

Troops sent to help Russia in Ukraine may also be subjected to inhumane conditions, she said, underscoring the regime’s global human rights violations.

Kim Jong-un’s Regime Responds: Denial and Deflection

North Korea’s UN ambassador called the accusations a “burlesque of intrigue”, claiming citizens enjoy full human rights under socialism.

He then blamed the West for racial discrimination and sex trafficking, a deflection tactic familiar to watchers of Pyongyang propaganda.