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Orphaned and homeless: Surviving the streets of North Korea

By Madison Park, CNN

May 14, 2013 -- Updated 1129 GMT (1929 HKT)

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Summary: The first time Yoon Hee was abandoned, she was an infant. Six months after her birth, her parents divorced and left her in the care of a friend. When she was 8, she had gone back to live with her mother. But she left her again and she was sent into the street. Like the general North Korean children, she had to freeze to death in winters, beg for mercy, pluck grass for food, and cry so hard at night for loneliness and starvation. But in the middle of those situations, she was undeterred- saying "I HAD A HOPE". A U.N. assessment in March found that country's estimated 28 million people, 16 million are chronically deprived of food. Nearly 28% of North Korean children suffer from stunting, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair. She determined to leave North Korea and go to South. Two years after her arrival in Seoul, Yoon Hee's days are busy from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. with studies and a part-time job. She sleeps on the floor inside a pristine wood-paneled room with a white teddy bear, lying next to the other North Korean girls on pink blankets.

Opinion: I appreciate to Yoon He for not giving up the hope and left for what she wants. In North Korea, the unemployment has increased in these days. Those who are unemployed have no place to sleep, live, and eat. Still many people are suffering from the starvation and fight earnestly to survive. I think for North Koreans who came to South, should get job in South Korea and South government should increase the job in order to save North Koreans.