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A Remarkable Tale of Trust, Family, and Forgiveness For the first time, Euna Lee-the young better half, mom, and film editor detained in North Korea-tells a harrowing, but finally inspiring, history of success and faith in one of the most isolated elements of the world. On March 17, 2009, Lee and her Current Tv set colleague Laura Ling were focusing on a documentary about the needy lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for the opportunity at freedom when these were violently apprehended by North Korean troops. For almost five months they continued to be detained while friends and family in america received little information about their position or conditions. For Lee, detention would show especially harrowing. Imprisoned just mls from where she was born and where her parents still are in Seoul, South Korea, she was brand as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Korea's highest court docket, she received a word of 12 years of hard labor in the country's notorious jail camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her spouse and princess again. The World Is Bigger Now attracts us deep into Euna Lee's life before and after this experience: what resulted in her entrance in North Korea, her efforts to make it through the agonizing months of detainment, and exactly how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of several individuals, including Invoice Clinton. Lee points out in unforgettable detail what it was prefer to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she realized it. The World Is Bigger Now is the story of beliefs and love and Euna Lee's personal conviction that God will support and protect us, even in our darkest hours.
