Why was Lee better able to adapt to life outside North Korea than her mother and Min-ho?

What aspects of North Korean life are similar to your own society? What aspects differ? Do you feel your own freedoms or rights are restricted in ways similar to Lee’s in North Korea? Which rights, and how so?

Compare the treatment of Mexican and Central American asylum seekers by the United States to the treatment of North Korean refugees by China. In what ways do they differ and in what ways are they similar?