Title: North Korea defectors: Meet young people who have fled from North to South Korea - CBBC Newsround
Headings: North Korea defectors: Meet young people who have fled from North to South Korea
North Korea defectors: Meet young people who have fled from North to South Korea
North Korea v South Korea
What is life like in North Korea?
Newsround in South Korea
What's it like to leave North Korea?
What is a defector?
Jun's story

Content: "I love telling my story to people," he says. The first time that Jun tried to leave North Korea, he went through China but he was caught and sent back. Life is made difficult for anybody who has tried to leave as they are classed as being 'hostile'. "I couldn't go back to high school after I was caught by police in China because in North Korea, everyone has a 'class'. I was 'hostile class' in North Korea so everyone avoided me," he explains. Jun thinks that it's important that he tells his story, now that he's been able to leave North Korea
"I tried to get food every day. I didn't have my mum in North Korea because she'd already escaped in 2004. I just tried to survive every day." However, going to China had shown him what life was like in the outside world and it made him even more determined to leave North Korea. "In 2008, I tried again because I saw a lot of things in Beijing.