Joseph Kim : The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.

Joseph Kim at TEDGlobal 2013
The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained  (transcript)
Summary
I didn't know how many people who ran away from North Korea were saved and why they continued to love their country where they couldn't live in.

The speaker lost his family in North Korea because of severe starvation. His father died, his mother ran away to China and his sister went to look for her mother to China. He was alone in North Korea without food.

However, he had strong hopes. He wanted to see with his mother and sister and to look for them, thus he had to live. His hopes must lead him to meeting a new family in the United State fortunately.

He can become to eat and study every day with family.

The answer is a family. The family that births you and The family that grows you are really important, even your life is hard, you are alone and you aren't with biological family.
The speaker tells us to have hope to survive. It's because you have a family in your mind always that you can do.

Words in this story
suffocate /verb/ die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe
satisfy /verb/ meet the expectations, needs, or desires of (someone).
overwhelming /adj/ very great in amount.
permission /noun/ approval, license
humiliation /noun/ the action of humiliating someone or the state of being humiliated.