From labour camp to councillor? North Korean refugee eyes UK vote
Al Jazeera
Jihyun Park was left for dead in a North Korean labour camp, now she’s running for office in northern England.
Sixteen years after she was left to die unremembered outside a labour camp in North Korea, Jihyun Park will enter UK political history if she wins office in local elections this May. Human rights activist Park said she wants to repay a debt of kindness shown by residents in the northern English town of Bury, her home since 2008, by becoming a councillor in the local government. She is standing in the May 6 election as a candidate for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in the Moorside electoral ward of Bury, a former industrial town lined with old red-brick houses.
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