#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean Human Rights Activist, and author of “In Order To Live: a North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, an author and a YouTuber. North Korea is the most shrouded, dictatorial and walled-off nation on earth. The only press who are permitted access are get shown a performance masquerading as real life and leaving the country is essentially imp ...  Show more

Yeonmi Park is an activist and author who fled to the United States after being a victim of sex trafficking. Park recounts her oppressive childhood in North Korea, starved and without electricity. She remembers how the lights of neighboring countries gave her hope for a better li ...  Show more

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and activist who fled North Korea to China in 2007, eventually moving to the United States in 2014. Her family turned to black market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s and her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling. ...  Show more