North Korean Defector: The Weird Lies of North Korea's Regime | Yeonmi Park

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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist whose harrowing experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom.

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What We Discuss with Yeonmi:

00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Trying to Explain North Korea
07:26 - Why Ads Are Weird
14:26 - Poop Harvesting
20:06 - Is North Korea Save-able?
21:28 - Oppressed People Don’t Know They’re Oppressed
30:02 - Yeonmi Didn’t Know Kim Jong-un Was Fat
39:34 - News In North Korea
47:09 - The First Time Yeonmi Ate Until She Was Full
49:18 - “Titanic” Taught Yeonmi About Love
59:56 - Performative Worship of the Great Leader
1:09:20 - Americans Are So Trusting
1:14:11 - How to Escape North Korea
1:40:43 - Kim Jong-un’s Pleasure Squad
1:48:01 - What NK Propaganda Got Right

North Korean defector and activist Yeonmi Park once said: “I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” In her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, she details how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea — and to freedom.

Yeonmi joins us to share the bizarre mind games generations of North Koreans have had to endure under the current regime; how the regime isolates citizens under its control with its own calendar and propaganda that extends to the math classroom and the nation’s very vocabulary; the punishment for getting caught watching movies from the Western world; what it’s like to be on Kim Jong-un’s kill list; how your entire extended family and grandchildren not yet born could be punished if you commit what the regime considers a transgression; why there’s a black market for poop in North Korea; and much more.

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