71: Information Monopoly

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, we’re going into the depths of North Korea to conduct one of the greatest hacks of all time. To find a way to inject information into a country run by totalitarian regime. A big thanks to Yeonmi Park for sharing her story with us. Also thanks to Alex Gladstein for telling us the inside story. You can find more about Flash Drive For Freedom at flashdrivesforfreedom.org. Yeonmi’s book "In Order to Live": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014310974X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=014310974X&linkCode=as2&tag=darknet04-20&linkId=88ebdc087c6ce041105c479b1bb6c3d2 Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25. Support for this episode comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Quick warning here, this episode is dark and intended from its audiences.
0:05.6	This episode talks about torture and sexual assault.
0:09.1	It doesn't get super graphical where you may vomit from it, but it does come up.
0:15.4	Yummy Park was born in 1993 in North Korea.
0:20.3	She grew up with her mother, father and sister in a small house near the Chinese border.
0:25.7	In 2007, Yummy's older sister had escaped from North Korea by herself.
0:31.8	Nobody knew what happened to her or where she was.
0:35.3	Her family didn't even know if she was alive or not.
0:38.4	Yummy and her mother decided it was time to risk their lives and escape from North Korea, too.
0:44.7	They paid someone to smuggle them into China, leaving their father behind,
0:49.8	knowing full well that if they got caught trying to leave North Korea,
0:53.6	they would likely go to prison.
0:55.6	So they crossed into China.
0:58.0	But even China was not safe for them.
0:59.9	If the Chinese police or government catches North Korean defectors,
1:03.3	they send them back to North Korea.
1:05.3	So yummy and her mother had to stay hidden while in China and rely on whoever was kind enough to help them.
1:12.0	But unfortunately, there's a really bad sex and human trafficking problem in China.
1:18.5	And North Korean defectors are especially vulnerable because they're so desperate
1:23.0	and the Chinese government does not grant them refugee status.
1:26.9	Yummy and her mother were captured by one of these sex trafficking rings.
1:31.7	Yummy was 13 and her captor wanted to have sex with her.
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