With an online platform, and some training in how to use it, North Korean refugees around the world could help each other, and maybe draw attention to the struggles North Koreans face both inside and out of their native land.

At least that’s Betsy Kawamura’s theory, and she knows something about trauma, and what happens when it goes unaddressed.

Kawamura has been working with North Korean refugees for a little more than a decade, and conceived of the idea of an online forum after hearing of the exploitation they had experienced in escaping.

“From this I realized that if there