I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report. Joining me today is a human rights activist

author of an order to live a North Korean girl's journey to freedom and someone that I'm

honored to call a friend, the On Me Park. Welcome to the Rubin Report.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a weird honor to be on your show.

I'm thrilled to have you. Can I call us friends? We've only hung out one time and it's

just in the last few weeks, but I feel that we are long lost friends.

Definitely. I've been following you almost like stalking you for the last three, four

years. I've been to your show with the Joel Peter Sni Chicago and I was in one of the

audience. So yeah.

Next. Well, I do consider you a friend and I'm thrilled you're here because your story

is just absolutely incredible and you've become a fighter for so many of the things that

this show is about. So let's just start at the beginning for people that don't know

you. Let's just do your biography. Just tell me your story and then we'll go from there.

Yeah. So I was born in the northern part of North Korea in end of 1993. So that was

the right after the Soviet Union collapsed and North Korean regime stopped providing

ration to the people. So because in the socialist system, you know, if the trading is illegal

and if the guard doesn't give you food, what do you do? You start the death. And unfortunately,

that's when I was born when North Korea began going into this thing like, you know, good,

mean, the worst famine in human history in 21st century. I was born in North Korea.

I had a father, mom and my sister in a very ordinary household. And I had no clue that

North Korea was, you know, her making them aware of the country is you are truly isolated.

You don't even know what isolation means. And growing up in North Korea, of course,

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