A North Korean defector has detailed the depths of the country's propaganda machine which tells children its supreme leader can read their minds.
Yeonmi Park grew up in the hermit kingdom where the concepts of 'love' and 'friendship' do not exist, at least according to its ultra strict education system.
Feelings of adoration are to be directed at the supreme leader alone. Park's parents never told her they loved her - a similar situation to many of her country-folk, who were used to seeing scores of people starved to death in the streets.
Park is one of several hundred North Korean defectors who have escaped to the United States, the New York Post reported. She and her mother fled in 2007 when she was 13, crossing the frozen Yalu River
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