Why I fled North Korea

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/opinion/lee-north-korea-refugee/index.html?hpt=op_t1

In this article, Hyeonseo Lee describes how and why she  and her family escaped North Korea, providing a chilling insight into the quality of life there. She talks about how as she was a child, she was raised to believe her country was the best in the world. Since North Koreans are so isolated from the rest of the world, as a child she believed public executions and concentration camps were normal. However, when she grew up and saw the "suffering, hunger and death" of those who were not as well off as her, she fled to China as an illegal alien. Throughout the restof the article, Lee details her experiences hiding in China and her omnipresent fear of being caught and sent back to North Korea. Her story ends happily as she and her family are reunited after 14 years spent apart and now live in South Korea.

I thought this article was very interesting and heartwearming. However, it reads more like a story than an article because Lee isn't really arguing anything, but rather recounting her past. I wish she tied her experiences in North Korea as a child to current events like the threat of nuclear missiles to the United States and its allies.