This Girl Has The Most Number of Facebook Followers in North Korea
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North Korea is one of the most controversial countries in the world. Time to time this country is making news sometimes for its leader dictator Kim Jong-Un and sometimes for the strict rules the country imposes on its public. The Holy Bible is considered as a symbol of Western culture in North Korea and is a guaranteed way to get yourself swiftly imprisoned, or worse, executed. You cannot watch Game of Thrones in the country either, as all programming is strictly controlled by the government. With all these there are many other things which make this country one of the worth to live in.
Facebook is kind of taboo in this country and time to time Kim Jong-Un block all social media platforms. But still here is a young girl Park Yeon-mi who is most popular on facebook in North Korea and according a website socialbakers.com she has the most number of audience on facebook with 66,531 people following her. So who is she is she an actress, or some celebrity or how can someone get so famous in a country of Kim Jong.
Well neither Park Yeon-mi is an actor nor she is a celebrity, but she is a North Korean defector and human rights activist.
Park Yeon-mi 23 came in limelight , following her emotional speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin. Looking like a fragile porcelain doll dressed in a flowing pink hanbok (traditional Korean dress), Yeon-mi took the podium and, fighting to keep her composure, told a harrowing and heartbreaking story. Her speech, about her experience escaping from North Korea, received more than 2 million views on YouTube. Her memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom was published in September 2015.
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