‘Defense Forum Foundation’s Congressional Defense and Foreign Policy Forum’

The Defense and Foreign Policy Forum hosts the Breakfast with some amazing women who escaped North Korea and are coming to the United States to participate in the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women as they speak at the Congressional Defense and Foreign Policy Forum at 8:30 a.m. on March 19. One of the witnesses is a recent escapee and two are visiting the United States for the very first time to discuss the topic. Speakers: Kim Ji-Young was born into an elite family and thus was allowed to live in Pyongyang and attend North Korea’s most prestigious university, Kim Il-Sung University. She could have become a government official just like her parents, but after Kim Il-Sung’s death and the Arduous March, she changed her perspective entirely. Ms. Kim was shocked that one of her friends who was not accepted to college because of her “bad Songbun (classification)” was better off than anyone in her family as an entrepreneur building her fortune in the market. Right after graduating from university, she decided to do the same and opened a restaurant which she ran successfully for seven years before she decided to escape....