Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Yon Mi Park. She's a North

Korean defector, an author and a YouTuber. North Korea is the most shrouded dictatorial

and Waldorf nation on earth. The only press who have permitted access gets shown this performance

masquerading as real life and leaving the country is essentially impossible. At 13 years

old, Yon Mi escaped along with her sister and mother. Today, expect to learn how North

Korea's citizens are conned into spying on each other. Why it's better to die than go

to prison, how the state is managed to get the total escapees down to two in the last

few years. If Yon Mi is scared about retribution from Kim Jong-un and much more, it's harrowing

to find out that such barbaric and medieval brutal conditions are being imposed on anybody

that's alive right now, that state-enforced famine is a weapon to control a population somewhere.

Yeah, I mean, what can be done about this is a hugely complex question, but if nothing

else, it should make you incredibly grateful for wherever it is that you're living right

now. Another reason to be very grateful for where you're living right now is that the

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