Yeonmi Park escaped North Korea with her mother when she was 13. She has now become a spokeswoman for others trying to escape the unimaginable regime.
Everyone was a “comrade” and feelings of adoration were reserved for the rogue regime’s supreme leader alone. Her parents never told her they loved her.
“But North Korea has been so completely purged from the rest of the world, it’s literally a Hermit Kingdom. When I was growing up there, I didn’t know that I was isolated, I didn’t know that I was praying to a dictator.” “We don’t have friends in North Korea. We only have comrades. There’s no concept of friends,” she said.
Muscle and animal are the most reliable tools for peasants. Even animals are starved due to shortage of food. Picture: Chen HaoPark describes growing up eating insects to survive and blames the ruling Kim family for letting their people starve to death. Both her uncle and grandmother died from malnutrition.
“North Korea spends billions of dollars to make this nuke test system. If they would spend just 20 per cent of what they spent on making nuclear weapons, nobody would have to die in North Korea from hunger but the regime chose to make us hungry.” With the help of Christian missionaries, Park and her mum fled to Mongolia, crossing the Gobi Desert and eventually finding refuge in South Korea, where they were reunited with her sister.Park continued her education in Seoul before moving in 2014 to New York City, where she began speaking out against Kim Jong-un’s regime, at great risk to her own safety. Many of her relatives have disappeared.
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