Refiriéndose a la noche en que ayudó a escapar de Corea del norte a su madre y a su hermano.
Original: «My heart went into overdrive. I didn’t remember there being so many guards. they were just 50 yards away from me.»
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Escrito en su autobiografía The Girl With Seven Names (La niña con siete nombres), respecto a su reencuentro con su madre.
Original: «My mind still held the image of her face the night I’d last seen her. She was 42 then, and a woman of so much energy she could hardly sit still ... She was far thinner than I remembered, and her mouth was drawn and lined.»
Fuente: Shearlaw, Maeve. 'How I escaped from North Korea' – Hyeonseo Lee's story live. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/03/north-korea-escape-hyeonseo-lee-live The Guardian, 3 de julio de 2015. Consultado el 9 de febrero de 2018.
Se refiere a su participación en el Pacific Forum CSIS celebrado en Hawai en 2015.
Original: «My story was published in the Wall Street Journal last year. They had asked me to write a story about my life. I think that was a big factor that got me selected at the forum. I was the only undergraduate student at the forum where the lowest academic background of other participants was a master’s degree. I was very honored and thankful to have been given the opportunity.»
Original: «I learned Chinese for two years and a cousin helped me get Chinese citizenship so living in Shanghai wasn’t a problem. I missed my family though.»
Original: «People here like to talk about other people, but in North Korea, its worse. I simply went to visit my cousin’s house in China which was very close to my house in Yanggang Province. We lived on the border. But rumors spread that I fled. When I came back, my mother told me it would be better to leave the area rather than be treated like a traitor forever.»
Lee Hyeon-Seo: Frases en inglés
My escape from North Korea https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea (March 2013)