My sister was sent back to North Korea after 25 years – now she faces sickening death while I live in safe haven Britain AFTER desperately fleeing across a frozen river to escape North Korea 25 years ago, Kim Kyu-li was able to reinvent her life and built her own catering business in London.
Yet on the other side of the world, Kyu-li's sister, Cheol-ok, is languishing in a North Korean prison, facing torture and starvation under Kim Jong Un's tyrannical rule.
The first time Kim's family escaped North Korea was when the country went through a deep famine in the 1990s.
It's the latest twist in a heartbreaking saga that saw the sisters separated for 20 years after they fled North Korea separately in the late 1990s and became illegal immigrants in China.
The pair lost contact for 20 years despite Kyu-li constantly searching for her sister in North Korean defector communities online.
