When the pandemic broke out early that year, North Korea sealed its borders and banned people from travelling around the country.

border were ordered to shoot and kill anyone they spotted trying to escape. Last year just 67 North Koreans arrived in the South, most of whom had left the North before the pandemic.

Songmi was one of the last to make it out before the borders closed. Her memories are therefore valuable, as they offer a recent and an increasingly rare insight into life inside the world's most secretive state. บาคาร่าเล่นง่าย