yep

She was a TV personality, of course she ate. Highlighting that south korea doesn’t actually have a lot of food is a really weird thing to say.

She appeared on a TV show because that’s often the only job that a North Korean defector can get. They probably gave her a few hundred dollars at most. She’s not a wealthy celebrity. Most North Koreans have a hard time landing a job in the south. Poor people in every capitalist country are food insecure. I find her statement 100% believable, especially given the recent documented case of a North Korean defector who starved to death in her apartment in Seoul.

And then there’s this

Lim - who described herself as “human trash”

That sounds to me like she’s depressed. I figure most people who are motivated to flee a country which they consider a hell-hole would be depressed.

That’s quite a reach on your part. Ask yourself why coercion is the first place your mind went and on a scale from 8-10 how much of a role anti-communist propaganda played in that reaction.

eat and live well there

This could mean “eat well and live well,” depending on how you read it (and the translation). If all she had was a low-paying job with high living expenses, eating well may have been an issue.