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Park, Yeonmi (27 May 2014). "North Korea's best hope" (Opinion). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Retrieved 11 July 2021. Stabile, Angelica (16 June 2021). "North Korean defector drags Dems for comments on Americans being deprived of freedom: 'That's a complete lie' ". Fox Business . Retrieved 4 August 2021. I never expect a biography or memoir to be 100% true - memory is simply not that reliable. As someone who has experienced various forms of assault I also understand if some things have only recently come out because she was ashamed or uncomfortable talking about them. Park has written and spoken publicly about her life in North Korea, has written for the Washington Post, and has been interviewed by The Guardian and for the Australian public affairs show Dateline. [46] [47] She was a co-host on five episodes for Casey Lartigue, a talk show host of the podcast North Korea Today, which focuses on North Korean topics and the lives of refugees after their escapes. [48] Park has told the story of her defection at several well-known events, including TEDx in Bath, the One Young World summit in Dublin, [4] and the Oslo Freedom Forum. [4] FMI Public Speaker Series Featuring North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park". Events@Rawls . Retrieved 3 May 2021.
Of course, Yeonmi Park did a great job with her book. Let the royalties come! Meanwhile, the rest of us are giving her credit while spending a lot of money on a over-hyped book. Honestly, I would have expected that by now some sort of boycott should have happened out of respect for actual rape victims, human traffic victims and oppressed people in general. Yeonmi, being only 4 years younger than me (she’s 23 currently) had faced brutal hardships to get through to where she is now. It’s truly a wonder she could smile the way she does now.a b Cussen, John (15 September 2016). "On the Call to Dismiss North Korean Defectors' Memoirs and on Their Dark American Alternative". Korean Studies. University of Hawaii Press. 40 (1): 140–157. doi: 10.1353/ks.2016.0005. ISSN 1529-1529. S2CID 163985007– via Project MUSE. I recommend Yeonmi's book to all asylums and refugees and all Americans especially the young generation to have some awareness about what is going on in the world so they appreciate what a great country they have and I should say we have because I am a proud US citizen and I love my second home country. Thompson, Nathan A. "The Ethics of Taking a Trip to North Korea as a Tourist". NBC News . Retrieved 3 November 2014. a b c Power, John (29 October 2014). "North Korea: Defectors and Their Skeptics". thediplomat.com . Retrieved 22 June 2023.
Park's father was a civil servant who worked at the Hyesan town hall as a member of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea who supplemented his income by smuggling goods from China. [21] Park's mother was a nurse for the Korean People's Army. Her parents met in Kowon in 1989 during one of her father's smuggling runs. He later established a metal smuggling operation in the capital, Pyongyang, where he spent most of the year with his mistress Wan Sun while his wife and daughters remained in Hyesan. Her family was wealthy by North Korean standards during most of her childhood. However, the family later struggled after her father's imprisonment in November 2002 for illegally trading salt, sugar, and other spices. Park alleges that her father was sentenced to hard labor at the Chungsan reeducation camp in a show trial in 2004. [ citation needed] a b "One Student's Journey from North Korea to Columbia University". School of General Stufies. Columbia University. 15 November 2016 . Retrieved 26 August 2023.Park is outspoken against tourism to North Korea, as visitors are encouraged to bow to statues of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, which she sees as "[aiding] the regime's propaganda by allowing themselves to be portrayed as if they too love and obey the leader". [44] Political [ edit ] I really hope this book will shine a light on the darkest place in the world. We don’t feel like human beings: people don’t feel that they can connect with North Koreans, that we’re so different. People are making jokes about Kim Jong-un’s haircut, about how fat he is – this country is a joke, really. It is a joke, but it is a tragic joke, that this kind of thing can happen to 25 million people. These things shouldn’t be allowed to happen to anyone, because another Holocaust is happening and the west is saying: “It isn’t happening, it’s a joke, it’s funny – things can’t be that serious.” But we are repeating history – there are thousands of testimonies, you can see the concentration camps from satellite photos, so many people are dying. Just listen to my testimony, to the testimonies in front of the United Nations. I just hope people will read the book and will listen. I’ve read a few books from North Korea defectors. Most noticeably A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea and Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, but I hadn’t really read anything from a purely female perspective until now. Then she said, 'Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you." Park's remarkable and inspiring story shines a light on a country whose inhabitants live in misery beyond comprehension. Park's important memoir showcases the strength of the human spirit and one young woman's incredible determination to never be hungry again." --Publishers Weekly
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