My Chat with Yeonmi Park - From Hellish North Korea to Woke America (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_507)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We discuss the horrors of living in North Korea, her eventual defection to the United States, and her exposure to terrible parasitic ideas in her new homeland. Yeonmi's website: https://www.yeonmi.com _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (February 3, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1509: https://youtu.be/og58bm_-udI _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God Sad it's been a while that we've been trying to
0:05.0	schedule this chat with Yonme Park who is a human rights activist and a North
0:11.9	Korean defector.
0:12.8	She's written two books.
0:14.2	Let me read the earlier one from 2015.
0:17.1	In order to live in North Koreans' girls journey to freedom,
0:20.4	how she escaped North Korea and landed in the U.S.
0:23.6	And the one that's coming out on Valentine's Day this year
0:26.5	in a few days, this one right here,
0:28.6	make sure to pre-order it.
0:29.9	If not, you want to wait till February 14th,
0:32.1	make sure to go get it.
0:33.6	Yon me, how you doing?
0:34.6	I'm doing, thank you so much for having me.
0:37.8	I'm very, very excited to be speaking to you.
0:39.6	I mean, one of the reasons I think that your story resonates with me because as you may know, we also, you know, we're in a very difficult situation in Lebanon, we're Lebanese Jews, we had to escape Lebanon when I was 11,
0:55.6	but if I were to ever think of someone who had a more harrowing story than my story,
1:01.3	it would probably be you. So would you mind telling us, so going back to your first book, you grew up in North Korea, how was it like there, how did you escape and so on, take it away?
1:12.0	Yeah, oh, thank you.
1:15.0	I mean, I read your book, House Like Mine,
1:18.0	so I know some of your story.
1:20.0	It's, I mean, North Korea is almost like a different planet.
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