I hate when people complain about relatively minor things and then say "my suffering is important, it's not a competition". They just need to think about the positives and how lucky we are to be born in our situations, and to make the best of it. Everyone who has a right to complain, knows that it could be worse.
"Fish in the water don't notice the water they swin in" is such a profound and sad way to describe the things shes seen in her life and how it was all (and still is there) just so normalized I deeply feel her story, I was adopted during the one child policy regimen in china, i was told my mother gave me away because it either that or leave me to die and she refused, this is all i know of her im grateful for her brave sacrifice for my life, thankfully i was much to young to understand what was really happening at the time and very little about my birth family myself, I wish to find them one day and they would want to see me, I hope this woman has a strong support system in her life and a professional to speak to her and hear her, I wish her the most peaceful life for the rest of her days ❤
Why would a fish in water not notice the water it's swimming in? If you're walking on a sidewalk or a trail in nature, do you notice where you're walking? I do.
It’s insane that what she is detailing is still happening at this very moment, while we all live such sheltered lives never having to even fathom a life like that. Hearing her story was just wow.
Listen vro we didnt earn that for free bro people died for it. George washington spent his life at war and when he finally got the chance to chill at home they begged him back to be first president. Which is quite literally like coming out of retirement to be in both the best and worse jobs that exists. Its a grueling job. Theres no days off for at least 4 years straight unless youre joe biden. You cant just abandon america for a two month vacation
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Most of everyone living in the us currently hasn’t had to worry about flies eating their organs while they drape out of their orifices. Just saying.
It's not happening, where is the evidence? Where's the evidence of the bodies in the streets? The rats? The train she had to push for one month in the snow? JUST A FUCKING SHRED
Yeah but sometimes at 3am after a night of drinking and I cant find my cell phone so i can have the food delivered right to my mouth......I have to actually get up and go drive to like a White Castle or something just to eat again. Does she have to do that?? I didnt think so
Plus her shirts pretty much see through. I don't know if it's that black Victoria's secret for all making her puppies look that good or she just has some real nice ta tas
@@robertstone9988 *Seriously?* With all of the terrible things she's talking about, you still can't help to comment on her "ta tas"? There's a time and place for everything. This isn't the time or place for comments like that. _You must be an incel._
@@JesusDisciple916 no I just really appreciate a nice set of breasteses. If the role was reversed and I was given a speech about the Holocaust or something but I was wearing see-through white leggings but no underwear on I'm pretty sure everybody would be focusing in on my schlong. Matter of fact that's hilarious I wish I could just go around giving super serious speeches about super serious things wearing white see-through leggings and no underwear and just being like what's your guys's problem I'm up here lol.
So glad to see her story spreading. It sounds like something you'd read in a history book, but it's happening right now in our lifetimes, as we stare at our screens surrounded by abundance.
@Cortez Media conditioned her like a Skinner's rat more outrageous she spoke more claps and food she got. Jordan Peterson, Lex, Joe im a fan of all but i need to realize they are just gullible humans like us. Without research they just take the face value just like us.
I feel like her lack of compassion seeing these things was a coping mechanism - there's nothing she can do so there is just acceptance and it becomes her norm. What an incredible woman.
You only have so many fucks to give in life. And when all your fucks are being spent trying to find food and stay alive, well then not much else is gonna matter
It's definitely a coping mechanism. She likely had to compartmentalize a lot just to keep going. Otherwise, the mind would be overwhelmed by the amount of traumatic events she dealt with on a daily basis. It's so sad that those poor people are suffering through all that even now.
My brother used to work at Indian embassy in North korea. He used to say in 8 months of his service he has not seen a single person who is close to 5 feet tall. It's a condition of serious starvation.
Previous Chinese generations are like this. The very old. Met an assistants grandmother. 4ft 3in tall. No longer true for the young who can be as tall as the Dutch for healthy young men from middle class families.
@@DaZandersShow it means she's speaks the English language very very well for someone who's first language isn't English... how much of an airhead do you have to be
Hi Yeonmi! Thank you for all the work you do, your message is so important just like your story. I am so sorry the horrors you and your people have lived thru and are currently living through; I don't understand why these atrocities and crimes against humanity have gone on so long and are still going on?!
This isn't just starvation, this is literally hell on earth. I don't even think a dystopian novel has been written that is this dystopian. This woman is the strongest person I've ever heard speak.
Read The Gulag Archipelago by Soljenitsin. He's able to describe that hell, and goes beyond, laying bare the human soul. You'll see the deepest mechanics of evil and the purest good and nobility that overcomes it.
The fact that she has to go on different programs and tell these stories over and over again and has to relive these moments makes my heart ache for her.
@@austincarter8875 right! She has done *more* than her part on behalf this issue, much more. She’s been telling us about this since at least 2014. I remember, vividly, the first I time I watched an interview with her around 2016. It’s time people with the power to change something start to work on this change. I graduated high school in 2015, never really learned much of anything about North Korea. So when rocket man started making threats, I started seeing stories from defectors, I was terrified for these people. It was like my first dose of “real world” problems. It’s stuck with me ever since. I wish I knew how to help.
We don't know what a priviledge life we are living until you hear about another person's experience. I am in tears just listening to her life's experience and what she and many others have to go through just to survive.
When she talks of not feeling compassion, and that it haunts her....I hope she knows now that is just trauma. When you are just trying to survive your whole life, you have probably never even been shown compassion. So sad.
*As a child, did she really see a woman publicly executed for watching a Hollywood movie?* She made the claim that she watched a person executed in public for watching a foreign film. Sometimes she says it is James Bond other times a South Korean film. Other North Korean defectors have also said that public executions were stopped several years prior to that date.In a response to Mary Ann Jolley's artcle which exposed her lies & fabrications, Yeonmi denied that she ever claimed such a story : UPDATE: *A Response from Yeonmi Park to Mary Ann Jolley's article in Diplomat* "I want to thank Mary Ann Jolley for caring so much about the terrible situation in North Korea that she would point out any inconsistencies in my quotes and how my story has been reported. Much of the time, there was miscommunication because of a language barrier. I have only learned English in the last year or so, and I’m trying hard to improve every day to be a better advocate for my people. I apologize for any misunderstandings. For example, *I never said that I saw executions in Hyesan. My friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to name it).* *But is it true? Did she never say that? Was it a misunderstanding, the so-called language barrier? Or she is just a fabricator and liar! Let us see :* *When she was nine years old, Park was forced to attend the execution of her classmate’s mother*. Her crime? She had lent a *SOUTH KOREAN* movie to a friend. The townsfolk were gathered in a large STADIUM to watch the punishment. *“She got killed in front of us,”* said Park, now 20 years-old. *“I was standing next to her daughter - my whole school had to go.”* www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic *When she was nine, she was forced to watch her best friend's mother being executed on the STREET before her eyes.* "She was a very nice, gentle mother," she said. "But I knew that lady. She was not that bad. She was not going to destroy our country," she said. *She has witnessed it many times as a child, when her mother used to give her a piggyback ride to the big stadium to watch the public executions, considered a 'celebration' which everybody is under orders to attend.* Along the route, victims are beaten with sticks and a rock placed in their mouths so that all their teeth are broken. Once they get there, they are shot three times - in the knee, the chest and the head. Nobody, not even the closest of family members, is permitted to show any sign of grief. (In an interview with the Irish Independent,Nicola Anderson October 17 2014) www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html *She watched as her friend’s mother was executed.* ....The woman stood accused of watching a contraband *James Bond DVD* and leant it to friends-a crime Yeonmi herself had committed, and one that could only be redeemed in death. It’s more than a decade later and she calmly recalls the shots ringing out, followed by an explosion of blood. Oct. 31, 2014 www.thedailybeast.com/how-titanic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-koreas-totalitarian-state *And yet she repeats this lie many times in following years aftar 2014,* an example : The 27-year-old said she was regularly forced to watch people being executed including her best friend's mum who was killed for watching a western movie. Apr 14 2021 www.the-sun.com/news/2698545/kim-jong-un-hitler-nukes-china-enabler/ "Park does not spare any detail of the atrocities and injustices she endured on her journey to freedom. *After watching her friend’s mother publicly executed* and then herself surviving surgery without anaesthetic or painkillers, Park knew she must try and escape." (Yeonmi Park recounts her harrowing journey to freedom at an event hosted by Walk Free and Perth USAsia Centre. 18 FEB 2019 ) www.walkfree.org/news/2019/yeon-mi-reminds-australia-that-our-freedom-isnt-universal/ NOTE : As a bad liar she changes the place of executaion : street va stadium. And the film : South Korean film vs. James Bond film!! Furthermore , she made up another lie in this regard : “There were different levels of punishment,” says Park. “If you were caught with a Bollywood or Russian movie you were sent to prison for three years but if it was South Korean or American you were executed.” www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic
I have just finished reading Yeonmi's first book and did a search on RU-vid. This book is an incredible story and has left me quite shell shocked. What an incredible and brave human being she is.
@@hollymorgan4214she’s a propagandist, shes been caught in many lies over the years. She’s on the Koch brothers is payroll. Think about it, these people are malnourished to the point that you can see their organs but they are also pushing a f-ing train in freezing weather? Have you seen strongmen competitors attempt to move a train? It’s just about impossible. Bodies floating down the river?? Where are all these bodies coming from if there’s so many starving people? I was suspicious the first time I heard her story, I immediately thought of the lies they told during the gulf war. The “Iraqis are taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on the ground” lie. This is all propaganda, it’s pretty obvious to be honest. The American public are very gullible.
It's just so incredible to me that she's lived such a horrific life and was adapted to a norm where there was no compassion for death and that misery and she escaped and TRANSCENDED in self-reflection to discover compassion and the details of that misery from an OUTSIDE perspective of what is normal. This woman is ridiculously intelligent.
Your brain can cope with some fucked up shit and still return to normal afterwards if you're put into the right environment. It's a miracle she survived though. Even describing it to outsiders we probably don't understand it's full brutality.
I agree. The whole time I kept thinking, of course it had to feel like nothing to see that. It was your own brain trying to protect you because how else could you have ever escaped without compartmentalizing it like that?
Only God rescue Her..for His Glory She is doing His will..education us spoil People.. Who need to know No complaints here. ALL PRAISES AND GLORY TO GOD...HALLELUJAH
But she literally lied about all this. She's a proven fraud who gets boosted by right wing media. Not to mention how many of her stories blatantly contradict eachother between interviews. As it turns out, hard to keep a story straight when you're utterly full of shit.
One time I was on a train. And the train broke down. So we had to push the train. Then we were so hungry after pushing the train and couldn’t find even one single rat. And we had to eat the train.
@A Blunt Conservative No that's not what the left wants. Stop buying into those talking points. The left wants a free but fair market, where the wealthy pay their fair share and the middle class are being taken care of. We're not out to punish anybody for being successful. Demanding a better healthcare system and protection from being ripped off at work is not communism. A robust social support system is what Sweden, Norway, France and Germany... already have. That's NOT communism.
Nobody knew the reasons why people were taken away. But it could affect everyone. Therefore, in every house, for such an occasion, a bag with essentials was hung by the door. Once they came for me. As a teacher, I was taken to the camp to teach Chinese and teach propaganda songs to prisoners. The cell had a concrete floor, walls and five video cameras on the ceiling. 20 people huddled on 16 square meters. The prisoners were wearing uniforms and handcuffs. They were all shaved baldly. In the camp, I also worked in a hospital, where I witnessed how prisoners were given medicines unnecessarily, maybe experiments were being carried out to, for example, make women infertile. At one of the meetings, she witnessed how the guards raped a young woman in front of 200 prisoners. Anyone who showed sympathy for her himself became the object of humiliation and torture in a "black" room with an electric chair, where I was also tortured until I lost consciousness. Since I visited the camp, sometimes I cannot even climb onto the bed myself. In the cell, I slept too long on the cold concrete floor, and now I have rheumatism. At 43, I became a sick person, although I was completely healthy before the camp, ”says the book“ Die Kronzeugin ”(The Main Witness) by German writer Alexandra Kavelius and Sairagul Sauytbai about the“ camps ”in Xinjiang. Quanguo has turned the entire region into a police state with checkpoints between cities and within cities - between districts, with a network of cameras with facial recognition, with mandatory ID scanning to enter houses and shopping centers. Everywhere - policemen in uniform and civilian clothes. Forced organ harvesting in China is carried out in relation to representatives of ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities detained in different regions, and they are often not told the reasons for detention or there is no arrest warrant, "- says the conclusion of 12 experts, the most popular organs for seizure are the heart , kidneys, liver and cornea of the eye, and this measure is applied to members of the banned Falun Gong movement, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians.
I saw Joe do stand up live last night, the day after he did this podcast with her. He went OFF on communism, the CCP and authoritarianism; more so than I have ever heard him articulate. You can tell this podcast impacted him deeply.
@James Thompson I’ve been a libertarian for years, and i can still tell how much of a moron you are by comparing Sanders to a full blown north korean authoritarian regime. Sanders is not an authoritarian nor is he a communist.
@James Thompson lol Sanders votes like a capitalist. It really doesn't matter what he says or what you think he is. His voting record looks the same as Nancy "we are capitalists" Pelosi. Bernies party is paid for by corporations(capitalist) and bernie made a mill selling his book(capitalist). He told people to vote for biden(capitalist). If you believe Bernie is a socialist or communist then I have a bridge to sell you and the rest of the libertarians in their confirmation biased information bubble.
@@krazat An you were there!?! Her family is probably bitter she became so successful. That didn't occur to you and your leftist propaganda/agenda though, did it!?! Because hateful leftists don't think. They are brain washed hate filled machines hell bent on one mission, destruction of America. Her life is a testament to what a savior & beautiful country this is and saved so many that are thriving Americans today including yourself, unless your Chinese or some foreign bot trolling comments which it seems. I wonder how much you are paid to leave nasty remarks every other comment but it's clearly ineffective. Interesting how the left didn't hate this woman or spread false allegations /slander her, until she spoke in favor of decent values & praising America, our core founding principles & freedoms, etc. Now it's a full fledged criminal harassment campaign to curtail her rights and shut her up, discredit her, it's rather pathetic!! You were not there. None of us were. She speaks of details and genuine quality. There are those that have reason to be bitter and claim ridiculing things against her. Hollywood is the epicenter of embellishment!! Who are you to judge this lady when you have no clue and didn't witness her life unfolding. People can go from being middle class (they weren't "rich" even for NK standards), to dirt poor and starving, that's very easily done in a nation that doesn't recognize human rights. She embodies & symbolizes the essence of what a genius concept America was and it's immense, unique beauty & the gifts it gives to the world and how it's changed world history forever. Many people on this planet sought refuge here and wouldn't have lived had it not been for America to migrate to. Your hate is misdirected. It shows how low the leftists will stoop attacking this girl and only empowers her more and causes many more to pay attention to her message regarding Freedom & Blessings.
I rarely comment on videos but as an Indian engineering student I know how blessed and fortunate I really am and how trivial my complaints are when there are human beings like u suffering through this. U r really inspiring especially the way u self reflect presently as an adult on those experiences as a child and where u r now... Kudos..🙌
I agree. Western media has ties to China and thus won’t want to upset them by having content like this. JRE can air stuff like this without worrying about China
@@hamschh what do you want them to do? NK has hundreds of icbm's aimed at Seoul that would level it at a minutes notice. It's mutually assured destruction to have any major conflict between the 2 countries. That's how the countries are able to exist together.
Dude all the media outlets got fucking fooled!!! Yes she escaped North Korea but half the shit she says is made up!!! Man these fucking fools are so gullible.
She says her auntie got executed from watching a Bond movie when she gives a speech at EU. Her dead auntie watches South Korean drama when she gives a speech to South Korea. She also accused Mongolian border patrols for undressing her fully naked when Mongolia is highly supportive for these refugees. Then she admitted to lying(oh i forgot it was other patrols blahblah).
It is so important that you tell us these things. So important that we know. It feels bad just imagining you as a little girl seeing and living through that.
The organ outside the body thing is legit. My aunt once had surgery and her intestines kept popping out when her stitches busted. And we had to put gloves on and literally put it back inside her. I cannot imagine dogs looking at her like a snack, and no one being in a position to help her either. I’m so sorry for these people and what they go through.
@@kowboy702 did I say that anywhere at all? Or was I saying that intestines popping out and putting them back in is a real thing? Don’t try to shade people if you’re stupid, because now you look even dumber.
@@kowboy702 and what does malnutrition = surgery even mean? I can only imagine how far your tired brain cells had to stretch for that reach, because that ish didn’t make any sense…as you tried to insinuate that’s what I meant 😂 are you high?
finally someone wiuth some sense i been reading these comments like how has no one called this woman out for her lies if my gut was hanging out there is no way i am thinking i am hungry , an earthquake breaks out, great time for a sandwich, fucking hell....@@kowboy702
Check out the one he did with abby martin and all the war crimes happening in Gaza and all the dead children and how miserable life there is because of the siege its a big open air prison
Guys please look into her. She was an elite member of society in North Korea who was so wealthy she got eyelid plastic surgery there. She speaks over the experiences of defectors who really were poor/ lived in concentration camps. What she’s saying is important but it’s disgusting that she’s profiting off of something that was not her reality.
@@nicolasrios7382 no, they're authoritarian but they started as communist. Far right Authoritarian regimes don't care about brainwashing the citizens, they just do it and don't care how you feel about it. NK still brainwashes like a cult. It's easier to keep control of the citizens.
She's magnificent. Her channel is fantastic. She speaks so economically, not one sentence is 'filler'n'babble'-- every sentence has its place and holds important information. Her self-editing is remarkable and instinctive. She rarely has to pause either, switch her on and off she goes. Incredibly compelling and just a brilliant way to spend your time, highly recommend.
This beautiful lady is so smart and so resilient. Don't feel bad for how you had to survive, you felt compassion once you knew you could, not should. You are not just a good person , you're a great person and we are happy to have you as a fellow American. ❤
@@BubuH-cq6km so you think North Korea is a paradise oasis and not a communist hell hole. Wow I was so wrong this whole time. Thanks for clarifying that.
Sure because a place can be either a paradise or something out of a badly written horror movie, there's no in-betweens. Then I guess the US is about paradise after all. Joking aside, North Korea can still be bad while her ridicolous stories are obviously made-up.
As bill burr would say this is what we should be using the word brave for, not fat people, just to liven the mood a bit. But for real she is really a brave woman more then I am.
She is so brave, so resilient and so inspirational. And not to mention absolutely breathtaking. Truly horrifying the things she had to endure. It makes me feel so naive trying to wrap my head around how it’s even possible for anyone to survive what she has. And that people are going through that as I type this. I feel so grateful and absolutely humbled by my “first world problems”.
She's full of it. Her own mom said that their life in North Korea always had access to food and even luxuries (by N Korean standards.) Even Yeonmi said she was in the 1% in North Korea when she first was doing publicity but then flipped her story to seem much worse than it was. She's a grifter. Joe and anyone else is truly dumb as bricks to believe that these malnourished people eating rat stew are out there pushing these heavy trains because there's no electricity...
Working in South Korea in the military you hear stories like this a lot. People are completely clueless when it comes to knowing how bad it really is over there. This is the tip of the iceberg. There are more heartbreaking stories like these than you all can possibly imagine. This woman is so courageous and you can hear the emotion in her voice, even though she was numb to it when she was there she knows now just how awful it really is.
@@mrgiggly21 my parents were CI agents in the army stationed in Korea. They told me stories of North Korean spies hunting down defectors and kidnapping & torturing them on an almost weekly/monthly basis in South Korea. They truly have no limit of their barbaric actions. Even against young women & children who left to the south just for a better life.
@@OleMisss one that’s fucked two can we drop a bomb on em already like just be like ohhh shiny button my bad that sent all the missiles to north korea but ig that would start some big ass war and shit
@@ronronniemeyers bro tbh i’d have to take prolly a week or two break before every vid cuz i’m pretty sure all the shit she’s seen is fucked. ok so i’m from here but parents are from mexico and haven’t personally seen stuff but everybody that i’ve known has and it’s like every now and than not everyday like hers
@Stephanie S Come on now that's such a naive way of lookin at things, no matter how you try to rationalize it there is a difference in the degree of suffering, there are people in this world who suffer way more than others, this doesn't mean everyone else's problems aren't real or they aren't allowed to feel bad about them but it can put things into perspective about how we're still lucky in a lot of ways
Currently reading the autobiography and crying nonstop, everything this girl went through is absolutely crazy and unbelievably wrong, it's simply heartbreaking and revolting to see what humans are capable of. Jesus Christ, how is it possible to have such horrible cruel things happen in this beautiful world of ours??? I hope Yeonmi and her family live happily ever after, she is a real hero and an amazing woman, I am sososososo sorry for everything that happened to her and everyone who had to survive that.
@@anaeleonoramanea6344 Google is your friend. I'm not going into the details, but her story is full of inconsistencies and things that have been debunked by other defectors. Her family was actually relatively well off. Her mother owned luxury purses and clothing for instance. There are excellent articles that sum it up for you. But even without those you should be able to tell that she's lying. Come on, pushing trains? Really? You believe that shit?
@Kwame Nkruma it's unfortunate but her story has changed drastically over time -- this is not at all to say she and her family didn't suffer or that north koreans as a whole are not suffering tremendously, but this woman's credibility should be very low by now from a journalistic standpoint.
My god. This poor girl. I cannot consciously comprehend the trauma. You can tell she is heavily traumatized. Im so sorry for what is happening in North Korea. Save these human beings... It's not fair because they grew up there and they can almost never leave. A very few percentage of people escape.
Hyeonseo Lee, a high profile North Korean defector, who was a dear friend of Yeonmi Park has double-defected back to North Korea. So, we can assume that a lot these North Korean defectors stories are just fabrication to get sponsored by Western Christian charities
@@Steveinthailand Not sure where you get your information from but Hyeonseo has not defected back to NK... She's still living in South Korea. We can not assume NK defectors are just looking for charities. People like you can assume that.
*DANCING INTO THE TUNE OF THIS WOMAN : Trash propaganda produced for imperialism and profit.* Yeonmi Park is an actress hired by the US deep state and she has just proven her usefulness , they would likely prefer a more coherent testimonial, but as long as the sheeple eat it up .... . This young lady is being used by political organizations to fearmonger, with an agenda at play here . If you believe all her stories, you are either naive or simple too stupid. There is no way of getting almost any reliable information about North Korea, due to their heavy isolation. Or if there is sources, they are from South Korean and USA media, which either guess or invent things. She's an actor and this channel is meant for spreading American anti-communist propaganda, she is just a Yankee paid liar, the worst is that she does the actor thing very well. Because someone pays money to them and educate them how to speak in public. A VERY well paid North Korean defector. The CIA has directly funded stuff like this before, why do you uncritically trust in it? Again what if the real reason these people can't keep their stories straight is because they are liars and frauds motivated by the desire to obtain money and publicity? Or alternatively, what if they work for some organization or agency hostile to the DPRK, like the CIA, or the Adam Smith Institute? She's supported by the SK intelligence agency to tell a horrific story. It gets policy makers and the international community to sanction NK. Her story has been debunked. She does it for the fame and attention. This is really no different than the story of WMDs, babies thrown from incubators in Kuwait. She gotten a lot of mileage out of this shame. There's a reason viewers are attracted to crazy bizarre exposures about North Korea, regardless of if they're actually true or not. That woman appeared on Valuetainment, Lex Friedman, & Joe Rogan at around the same time (classic fake propaganda spouted by that annoying puppet lyce ducet. This would have been *carefully orchestrated from the beginning making sure the defector had been paid handsomely to tell her lies about the DPRK.* ). Nothing wrong with interviewing people, her claims were accepted without any skepticism on all those shows. If you watch subsequent Joe Rogan episodes, he uses this sleezy interview as "evidence" to push his "China is evil" argument (ie. war with China). Lex Friedman could care less about American-induced famine in Yemen & economic sanctions on poor countries, but started crying & using her claims of famine as proof Kim Jung Un was "evil" (ie. no peace deals with Asians). It's sad because this submissive shilling undermines their claims of being "independent". Controversy sells, but he is missing the point of what the true face of imperialism really is. It is typical behavior from people of settler colonist nations. Little culture means little acceptance of what's going on in the world. The more sensationalist lies that she tells will bring her more profit, though she’s taking a risk by becoming less believable and triggering more people to see through her bullshit with each story she tells. She’s truly a despicable soulless demon whose only real interests in life are money and plastic surgery.
This is one of the reasons I feel horrible for wasting food, just knowing that there is someone out there in the world who would do anything for my scraps of food just breaks me.
It's so tough to think of it... I see some of my friends chuck away food because they are full and I have to bite my tongue.. I guess it's a side effect of good living... People really are disconnected
Uncommon amongst uncommon women. Yeonmi park’s story is a must for everyone to hear. Keep in mind she started to learn english 5-6 years ago. That’s mind blowing in and of itself.
Well, my unpopular opinion is that we, as western countries stop sanctioning North Korea. I understand their government is unstable, but the citizens are the ones suffering the most. Threats of war has driven them war crazed!
I'm disgusted at our world leaders, no one is calling for Kim and his fellow leaders of the regime to be tried and executed for crimes against humanity.
I just finished this entire podcast. One of his best interviews/conversations to date. People need to wake up soon. Keep going Joe!!! Never stop what you do
Call it what it is. The most loudicrous bs I ever heard. "Mountain of bodies in hospitals eaten by rats, rats then eaten by kids, kids to hen for, and them eaten by rats too.." Come on ..what are you? 5?
It's so heartbreaking to think that everyone who knew this brave woman even her old neighbours have now disappeared to concentration camps and worse. Her story comes at a human cost and needs to be heard.
@@markg9749 So is China's Xi but we are in bed with him. So is the Saudi prince...same for him...see how this works? Pre-sanctions, his father was also a dictator, but his people were not starving! Starvation is a direct impact of US sanctions!
It’s so easy for us to take for granted the lives that we live. This is a great reminder that we should always remind ourselves to be thankful for what we have. This woman is so incredibly strong. The mental strength she has could run circles around the average American and that’s just the truth. Amazing.
@@onefortheroad6186 And why are they that way? Are they genetically any different from their parents? Or did they get raised by screens and endless propaganda? Whose fault is that? They're still Americans. We failed them. We all shat on the same toilet seat here.
Without a doubt North Korea is an oppressive hell hole, but Yeonmi Park is not considered a reliable source on the matter. She repeatedly contradicts herself and other defectors have plainly stated that her stories are often exaggerations or just downright fabrications. Yeonmi Park herself has had to retract a lot of her own claims, stating that it was due to poor memory because she was very young (she defected when she was 13 years old) or because of language barriers. Initially upon converting to Christianity, she claimed that her escape from North Korea involved climbing tall mountains in freezing -40 degree Celcius without any winter clothing and that she managed to do so because of the warmth and love of Jesus Christ. Of course it turns out there aren't any mountains between where she lived and China, it's mostly flat. She then said what she meant was that they had to climb over hills and didn't know the word for hills in English... but this contradicts the fact that she made those same claims in Korean, her native language. Her own mother, who defected with her, has come out and said that many things that Yeonmi claims are just untrue, such as that she witnessed a public execution of her best friend's mother for watching James Bond (which never happened and Yeonmi has had to retract that statement), that she was forced to eat grass due to starvation (her mom says that was never the case and that their family was actually well off, at least by North Korean standards) and overall just other bogus claims that are not only unsubstantiated by other defectors, but often times contradict her own claims and can verifiably be debunked. So why would she fabricate this? Because she is being incentivized to do so by right-wing think tanks (such as the Atlas Foundation) who are using her as a pretty and innocent face to spread propaganda that left leaning politics will result in a North Korean style authoritarianism. Why should we care if some of what she's saying is exaggerated? Surely North Korea is a horrible place, so what if she's taking certain liberties? Because she's not the only defector, but she's one of the few defectors anyone will listen to because she's willing to bend the truth, create a sensational story that causes the audience to suspend critical thinking, and then when the audience is in a heavy emotional state, push the political agenda that she is being funded to promote. The sad truth is that unless people are willing to create heavily sensationalized narratives of their experience, then no one really bothers to listen to them, so the only people who get attention are the ones willing to play loose with the truth.
Boom. I listened to this today and it’s so clearly propaganda when she starts getting into woke culture ruining the US, her story about getting robbed is clearly BS, 80 pound girl holding her mugger (a big black girl she said) while calling the police. She is very transparently becoming a right wing “mascot” to parade around and show left = bad
A lot of people don’t realize not only what goes on in North Korea but after the Korean War, South Korea was in a similar state, I only know this because that my mother and her family grew up poor. I feel like no nation with the amount of wealth that is out there should have to go through shit like this. Like why are we fighting instead of feeding people?
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I am just amazed how little my struggles were compared to yours. I come a country where I saw a ton of stuff as well, that haunts me if I try to remember. I hardly talk about it to anyone here, I feel like none would understand and most would think of it as a lie simply because it’s something that they can not understand and its out of their world. Now I heard your story and can say there must be many who question you or say that you lie but I know that it’s not and if they don’t understand or they wish to feel that way let it be, I don’t blame them
I'm currently bulkin up to get bigger and stronger, eating so much I feel like I am about to thorw up sometimes, because that's just how the gym goes. Watching this made my feel like a fucking shithead. Sometimes we just don't know how lucky we are.
In the last two years, I gained a ton of weight after a breakup, job loss and life issues, I think what a privilege it is to have such problems. Wow! She is phenomenal. Humbling.
@@calmingbabysleep1256 Yes sir, we all have problems though, an Elephant has Elephant problems and an ant has ant problems. Which doesn't mean they are not important, take care men and if you need any help just dm me. In words of Mr. Goggins: Stay Hard!
*"How can anyone think this clown is telling the truth."* Yeonmi is a paid, celebrity "witness." The Diplomat did a write up of her about how her stories do not line up, and they have the receipts. It’s is fabricated, unfortunately. I know that perspective is difficult and unfair, it seems, but that’s the point of such a story perfectly tuned over time to appeal to your emotions. If you need more proof look at the Greyzone video with Max Blumenthal, and another further report he did previously. There is a literal TV program in South Korea where North Korean defectors compete with their lavishly embellished escape stories to win.. it’s a game show. Yeonmi Park has personally made almost $1,000,000 telling her story. Her story changes massively. One of the most crucial changes in her story from the initial tv interview is that her father was initially with her when she left N.K.. later she said it was only her mom that was with her, in order to weave in the part where her mom is raped to save her from that assault- a much more heart-wrenching progression. Says she was poor but slips up by saying she grew up with her mum having chanel handbags🥴....how can anyone think this clown is telling the truth. Anything she says is suspect, as she could easily be grifting Rightwing media. The story is she stole other defectors stories. She was a high ranking person in DPRK (according to one version they claimed) and did escape (probably through bribes). She steals other people’s stories to make her story sound more sensational. you will always see someone trying to be over dramatic and get attention and fame by making the story 100 times worst. Did she go through horrible things? We don't know. Did she use other peoples stories and exploit them as her own? Yes, 100 percent. She's definitely from North Korea and she definitely "escaped" but I'm pretty sure she's laying the story on thick because her whole career depends on it. It's her livelihood. She's Korean Elizabeth Holmes. She arrived here in South Korea and used the refugee system in every way, got free education, numerous plastic surgeries including breast implants, appeared on TV to find a rich man, failed, then rehearsed years for the show targeting foreign countries. Even in the DPRK itself she acted and behaved like a spoiled criminal individual, so it's just natural she bragged about it in corrupt, americanized South Korean reality shows, and even more in the US itself. No surprise... However, she does need to be exposed, and the way to do that is to present actual evidence of her family and individual past in the DPRK, her path in South Korea and her natural puppet role in the service of US propaganda in exchange for the fame and money she always craved. Very simple. They never escaped to Mongolia. Her mother never raped, and they were never kidnapped/captured as sex-slaves! And her father never was or died in China! The whole story/ her book is pure fabrication. She lied about her father's death, and got exposed by North Korean government, so she had to admit it (in silence! few people were paying attention to it). Here you go : "But North Korean government came after me and described me that I didn't suffering in North Korea and also they said that my father died in North Korea not in China, and they say that I was an very ambitious girl because he gripping ambitious extremely bad thing and they say you are an ambitious girl, and your father was a bad person, and your mom was immoral person...........But they didn't really come up with a like big thing *except my father died in North Korea* and my father's ashes were in China, and my mother went to China a few months ago and brought my father's ashes to South Korea." (ReasonTV : In Order to Live: Yeonmi Park's North Korean Defector Story Nov 13, 2015) 18:30 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cjE7apYAdBM.html
*The market is huge for stories about NK that fit a certain narrative pushed by the imperialists* She seems compromised…… a CIA asset? She’s playing the game quite well. If you’re a minority who looks conventionally attractive and says the same talking points, the GOP and institutional right will hire them on the spot. There's an article about her from 2014 about her contradictions on the diplomat. Now the excuse made then was, Her language barrier with english. The problem with that statement is she told the same lies in Korean on South Korean TV which baffled the host of the show. The best part is she did a full 180 and when investigated, her real story came out. On a South Korean TV show Park Yeonmi told the audience that her family was doing extremely well and that her mother was wearing pants that ‘were all imported from Japan’ and added, ‘My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea.’ They didn't ask her to play any role, that's why it was a shocker to the South Korean public, She did a 180 on what they expected. They never propped her up to be privileged, that crap came out of her mouth after she became famous. So doing a 180 and asking your mom on networked TV "Am I really North Korean, these other people seem poor"!!! *But after she started being coached by a Seoul-based American anti-DPRK think tank Freedom Factory along with other right wing/pro imperialist Think Tanks / NGO's (Atlas Network, Oslo Freedom Forum, Human Right Fundation, etc) who hired/paid/taught her what kind of horror stories she should tell about the DPRK, her narrative completely changed.* That’s when she started claiming she was so poor that she had to survive eating grass, that she saw dead bodies floating in North Korean rivers (where she previously said to have had fun together with her friends), promoting how she was starved while saying she never was poor? and other gibberish. The host lost his composure and looked confused AF. Then having her mom says "oh those stories of her eating grass ect that never happened." HuH??? was the whole crowd, audience and hosts. She then became the media darling for several years and her new narrative turned out to be very lucrative for her. I also noticed that she talks a lot of crap about South Korea and says that she moved to America because they were oppressing her there. I think they were just catching on to her BS and she had to try lower hanging fruit - To be fair a lot of defectors struggle in South Korea due to discrimination, economic and social problems, etc. a fair amount even want to return to North Korea, and some have. However, I highly doubt Yeonmi faced anything remotely oppressive in South Korea, being a rich girl funded by every alphabet agency in America. It’s likelier that she said something stupid, the South Korean media picked up on it, called her out on her bullshit, and asked her who her CIA handlers are South Korea tends to be sympathetic towards North Korean defectors, especially if they are ardently anti-North Korea. However, Yeonmi’s story is so full of holes that the South Koreans do not take her seriously, nor do they respect her. *All she seems to do is make up grandiose stories to get more clickbait, and to promote a neocon agenda,* rather than actually helping North Korean refugees. Other defectors want nothing to do with her, and she has been reduced to making all of her content in English because she knows that no Koreans will ever take her seriously again, and that only Americans will believe anything she says (much like they believed Saddam ground people into burgers with a meat grinder and had nukes pointed at America). The money is to good to pass up, even if that means lying and embellishments. She is not the first to sell out, but so much was learned from watching her blatantly lie and try to cry without crying throughout the whole show. In a way it's good to have a liar on record when she gets exposed again.
It’s wild how she remembers everything so vividly, in such detail is wild. It’s just one story after the other… heartbreaking. But still can’t help but ask, has anyone validated this? Is this still going on now?
No nothing is validated and actually a lot of it is disputed and not only that but she is inconsistent between interviews and what she describes would literally result in the population dying off pretty quickly
"I don't know how I felt nothing at that point." That does not make you a bad person. It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Your blessings are greater now. You can think beyond your own survival, and help others. Thank you for sharing your painful stories. Bless your soul!
This is Yeonmi telling a very different story: how rich they were and how her mother had Chanel handbags ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mz3nziy1xO0.html
I can‘t believe that people still have to go through stuff like that even in other countries i mean… Respect every culture and country and their way of living and nobody deserves to suffer like that
Also, I am homeless in the United States, I work every day, and luckily I make just enough to stay in a hotel every night and eat once a day. But if I had to see what she has seen, I don’t think I could go on, knowing that people would be walking over my dead body while carrying on a conversation and not affecting them at all. Especially just looking at a young kid like that and that situation. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel lucky being able to eat once a day and most of the time having a bed but still no health insurance. I can’t imagine everything that she has seen. It’s sickening.
As a homeless person, please consider what she is saying and learn media literacy. Your own government does not give a shit about you and the media regularly shits on you, there are people in this country that want you dead. You are being denied a basic human right, while your own fucking government is paying this girl a fuck ton of money to spread propaganda that is easily debunked with basic facts. This is being used as a distraction so people won't think about the horrific conditions in our country, something directly affecting you.
I normally listen to these podcasts when I’m driving, and once I finish an episode I go about my day. Not this one. This one left such an impact on me that words cannot describe. People NEED to hear her story. It needs to be spread like wildfire.
She is a pathological liar.For money of course. There is an actual video clip of her mother from a Korean show that she admits they were never hungry, or she doesn't understand where these rumors of famine came about as soon he never seen anything to allude to that, thus she doesn't believe they are true.In her presence! But the daughter learned she can make a career out of saying the most loudicrous things to gullible Americans like you. Don't forget to buy her book and make a donation.
@@parapoliticos52 Yeah yeah anything that goes against the Liberal narrative is all propaganda, lies, conspiracies. Even if she lied, she’s bring attention to the atrocities North Korea and China are doing to their own people. Now go back into your scared little bubble ok? Thanks
I stumbled upon Yeonmi Park giving a lecture on cable BookTV the other day on how horrific North Korea is and could not hardly stomach what I was hearing. I can only imagine how her life has changed since coming to America. She mentioned that she now has a 2 year old little boy, and by the looks of her huge, beautiful, sparkly diamond ring, and her 'breast augmentation', I'm guessing she's living a pretty comfortable life now. I'm happy for her!
Man, this made me realize that we Americans are fortunate for everything we have. We probably won't face anything near what she had witnessed for 13 years. By far Joe's most intense episode I've seen.
We could if we continue to think everything sucks here and we give more power to those "leading the country." I came here to escape poverty and violence, and it drives me crazy how people can't see how wonderful it is here. It needs to be preserved and built up, not given away or "changed." That "change" might not be what you think, just ask Lex Fridman.
we are not fortunate at all we fought bleed and died for every progress we have made we the people built this great place our grandparents and forefathers before this suffered and had hardships so that we would not it was not given to any of us it was built up bought and paid for with blood sweat and tears. when you understand that you will get why when that flag waves millions of us will die before we ever see it fall. the truth is their people have never known better and the only way they will get freedom is with a bloody revolution and maybe with a little help they too will pay the price it takes to live in a world that we do but it doesnt come free freedom isnt free. the thought of freedom is the only thing free to become free the rest is paid for with honor blood and hardships just like all places that obtain freedom. the people have to do it theirselves we have learned our lessons interfering with it once in Korea and vietnam and agian in the middle east the truth is some people like the thought of freedom but dont want to pay for the admission of it.
Michael Scott Moore was intense too. But she's incredibly strong. I'd be worried speaking publicly about this but she doesn't care she's getting awareness out there for what goes on in China and North Korea
She probably didn’t feel compassion not because she lacks it, but because her whole life shes been in survival mode. What a horrific story to hear though. It makes me appreciate my life here in the USA more 🙏🏼♥️✨
@@fdr100100 the stupidity in youtube comment sections is usually mindblowing but what you said is just outright insane. Those mental gymnastics would put a downsyndrome spiderman to shame
This is the first time I have ever commented on a RU-vid video, but wow. How as world we have turned a blind eye to this for so long. God bless this woman and her family. She is the truest example of the resilience of the human spirit I’ve ever heard about. I can only hope this podcast goes viral and we all wake up and demand something be done before this people are wiped off the planet. Great job Joe, this is will undoubtedly be the most significant interview if your career. Truly the Powerful JRE.
We haven’t turned a blind eye that’s thing. we really haven’t known the severity of the situation for all that long when you think about it, because everything that’s comes out of North Korea is controlled by one man and no one else. Makes it a lot harder as well when he’s threatening the countries with nuclear war that threaten him, or his regime, and when trump threatened to “totally wipe them of the map” everybody made it out to be trump trying to start a war and blaming it on his ego, but when In reality he isn’t the one with millions of starving people under his power! It’s not as easy as going over there and giving them food and everything will be fine it’s a lot more complicated than that 🤷♂️
@@minority86 It's NOT up to the United States to take care of N. Korea. But it's up to us to understand this is where the Democratic Party wants to take us!
This clip reminds me of last billion years of humanity.. so sad.. glad there are countries that bring people together to actually build something and create tech like USA!!
I just clicked on this video and not for a second I swayed away. It has been a long time since I felt like this. Thank you yeonmi and please eat full daily.
