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The Eric Metaxas Show

Yeonmi Park - Part 2 ( Encore Continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Yeonmi Park continues sharing stories about her life surviving in North Korea and China and how she, her sister, and her mother all escaped, settling into an America undergoing transformation.

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:06.8

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0:09.8

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0:24.5

Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show.

0:29.2

They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line.

0:33.3

Now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mattaxas.

0:40.7

Folks, welcome back talking to Yomi Park about her story, as told in the book,

0:46.6

In Order to Live.

0:48.1

Her new book, which will get to eventually is while time remains, very important.

0:52.7

But first, we have to get the story.

0:56.4

So the story is, you're're 13 you and your sister are somehow vaguely having this idea that if we go to china if we escape

1:04.9

somehow we can get food yeah it's that simple but before this you have the youicken ill, and your father, who by now is a different man, a broken man, but he's home, and your mother, they carry you to a hospital.

1:19.5

I don't remember I kind of fainted almost.

1:22.6

So I remember being in the hospital bed, and they said, I need a surgery that day. So that's how I

1:30.9

remember from that day. And then doctors refused to operate on me. And my mom had to bribe the

1:37.8

doctor and she didn't have the money. Okay. So this is basic that if you can't pay, they will let you

1:43.8

die. And so your mother finds a way to

1:48.0

bribe them to operate on you. But they misdiagnose you. Yeah. So they, that's the thing. It's like

1:55.4

universal free health care. It's not, after all, very free because doctors charge you for bribery, and they

2:02.7

demand you to bring all the medicine and needless everything from the patient.

2:08.3

So they expect the patients to bring those things? Of course, everything. To pay for those things.

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