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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

Fireside Chat Ep. 203 — Escaping Oppression: North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

PragerU

Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, suffered unimaginable horror on her journey to freedom. Desperate from starvation and oppression, she managed to escape to China, but had been sold. Several years later, she escaped through the Gobi Desert into Mongolia and then finally to freedom in South Korea. Once at university in America, she recognized the same propaganda tactics of North Korea. She has an incredible story and we’re honored to bring it to you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right, he's given, he's given her the look. She's dead. It's over. It's over.

0:10.0

Basset, how it looks you with the eyes.

0:17.0

We're good. Yeah, whatever you're ready.

0:19.0

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here with FireSight Chat number 204.

0:23.0

203. 203.

0:25.0

But I was so proud of myself, I was sure that after 200, I would really know and I blew it already at 203.

0:32.0

Anyway, this is my home. This is my chance to talk to you about what is on my mind.

0:37.0

We have no notes. We have no teleprompter. It's completely spontaneous.

0:43.0

And of course, Otto is here. Snoopy is making a visit because he is falling in love with my guest.

0:50.0

Wow, he heard Snoopy and he came over to me.

0:54.0

That is rare. Are we getting this on video? I'm not sure. In 203, people have seen me rub Snoopy.

1:01.0

Snoop.

1:04.0

He's a little jealous of his brother. Anyway, this is truly one of the most important.

1:10.0

I try to make every FireSight Chat important. But this is, this is what I care about the most in life and that is evil.

1:20.0

So a few words before I introduce my guest today and I don't have many guests on the FireSight Chat as you folks know, other than Otto, I guess.

1:31.0

But he's not a guest. He's a host. Anyway, since I was a child, I've been preoccupied with evil.

1:39.0

I have no explanation. Everybody has a nature. It's something you come to realize, especially when you become a parent.

1:47.0

You look at the child and go, they have a nature. And we do. Whether God put it there or it's just there, it's there.

1:59.0

So my nature has been a preoccupation with evil. I hate evil. What is evil? People deliberately hurt other people unjustly.

2:09.0

It's not really complex. Whatever people ask me for a definition, I'm thinking, you really don't know what evil is.

2:17.0

And the truth is people don't know what it is. That's the irony. And I, that's a big theme in my guests thinking, writing and speaking.

2:27.0

And we'll get to that, obviously. But I do want to share with you a few insights on evil and then our dialogue.

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