#247 Yeonmi Park - A North Korean's Warning To The West
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🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist who fled North Korea to China in 2007, eventually moving to the United States in 2014. Her family turned to black market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s and her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling. They initially fled to China, where Yeonmi and her mother were sold into slavery, before escaping to Mongolia. She is now an advocate for victims of trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.
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| 0:00.0 | what's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world i would like to welcome you back to the real talk with |
| 0:24.6 | zubi podcast now on today's episode we have got on another very special guest she's got an |
| 0:31.3 | extremely fascinating and harrowing story she was born in north korea and eventually |
| 0:40.5 | defected from there and is now living in the USA she has written two books in order to live and a |
| 0:48.5 | new one which is called wild time remains and this is the one and only yummy park welcome to this |
| 0:55.0 | y'all thank you so much for having me happy to have you on you on me so i've done a brief intro there |
| 1:03.3 | but for people who may not be familiar with you please tell them who you are and what it is that you do |
| 1:08.9 | yeah so i'm a nursing defector human rights activist my life in the past has been more dedicated |
| 1:16.8 | to try to raise awareness about what is really happening inside north korea and also the |
| 1:23.4 | Chinese Communist Party say support on this dictatorship uh north korea has a 25 million |
| 1:31.2 | population and the united nations came up with their report in 2011 declaring that what is |
| 1:38.4 | happening in north korea for the people the only resemblance we can find in human history is |
| 1:44.2 | holocaust and not to germany and Stalin's uh work camps so most of people have no clue |
| 1:52.1 | that this tragedy is happening and also i am a survivor of modern day slavery and a lot of |
| 1:59.8 | people in the in America often think that somehow slavery ended and that we abolished is slavery but |
| 2:07.1 | it isn't true it is happening right now in the 20th century that is sponsored by chance comes |
| 2:14.0 | and that has been my life trying to raise awareness so we can stop those slavery that has been |
| 2:19.6 | continuing to this day i hear that and i've heard your story over the years on multiple podcasts |
| 2:27.4 | as well as your TEDx talks as well so i don't want to spend the entire podcast going through your |
| 2:34.7 | entire story because i know you've documented that before but for people who are brand new i think |
| 2:40.7 | it would be good for them to get a summary and an overview of a little bit of your story so let's |
| 2:47.0 | uh let's spend some time on that yeah it's a uh i was born in north korea in 1993 in the border |
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