What I Learned about Freedom after Escaping North Korea
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Yeonmi Park was born in 1993, and in 2007 fled from North Korea with her family to China and settled in South Korea in 2009—before moving to the United States in 2014. What we are about to hear is Yeonmi’s story she gave to a group of students at the Young America’s Foundation in Santa Barbara, California.
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