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This beautiful lady is more American than most born here. She understands true freedom.

Her husband and child are lucky to have such an angel

I came across Yeonmi Park's unbelievable story just a short while ago and must admit it hasn't left me since. The strength, endurance & courage of this young girl are hard to fathom. Her words & wisdom are so inspiring and humbling - especially to us "westerners". This wonderful young lady is such a gift to the world !

Such a powerful story!

Thank you for this interview Stephen and Yeonmi, it was incredibly inspiring and has further expanded my appreciation for the life I lead in Australia. I admire your strength, courage and resilience Yeonmi, and Stephen, your humble questioning invites such beautiful responses from your interviewees, i am so grateful. Many people here in Australia are complaining about 'oppression' due to having to wear masks due to Covid-19, I have shared this interview with my social media network in hope that it will broaden said people's perspectives to the truly horrific oppression that exists in other parts of the world, such as that in North Korea. I hope the focus can shift away from this narcissistic, self-centred, sense of entitlement that i see so many around me having, and move toward the suffering and hardship of our neighbours around the world. A shift in the focus of attention away from self and toward other, an acknowledgement of the facts of our human condition, i hope will elicit a more compassionate, appropriate and active response from people.

KZread will automatically transcribe subtitles in the closed caption section for videos but the technology isn't that great and makes frequent mistakes. This conversation is transcribed perfectly, despite Yeonmi's accent which indicates that some human being did it manually. So a tip of the hat to the editor.

If inner strength courage and compassion has a name it has to be Yeonmi ... To read and aspire to be like that is itself a great thing... But actually be that person after facing all that at such a young age.Respect🙏😇

Thank you for interviewing this incredible woman who is teaching me so much.

Thank you so much for sharing this interview. The story of Yeon-mi and the delicate inner thought of hers have been with me. I am praying for you, that God will protect and guide you safely through the victory line.

Thank you, Steven and Yeonmi, for posting this great conversation! It is encouraging to see individuals speak up about the atrocities and violations of fundamental human rights that are being perpetuated in North Korea. I hope to see the schism between the North and the South being amended in the near future, and the only way to make this happen is through truthful and honest conversation between the leaders of both countries.

@MrJm323

3 жыл бұрын

"I hope to see the schism between the North and South being amended in the near future, and the only way to make this happen is through truthful and honest conversation between the leaders of both countries." There is no "truthful and honest conversation" possible with totalitarian tyrants. This isn't some "schism" or disagreement between two honorable groups of people. The leaders of the dictatorship need to be removed; and then re-unification under a genuinely constitutional form of government (which is to say, the "rule of law" rather than arbitrary and capricious rule by men or cliques) will be possible.

Thanks for posting this

God bless her for explaining the meaning of life to the world. I hope she lives and changes the outcome of what her dear leader and Donald Trump plan for the world. Love us the answer. When we as humans embrace that, clean air, clean water, loving one another, respect for the planet, planting and harvesting food to feed everyone and everything, clean air, absence of stress should follow. Then again, maybe that's what Heaven is for. If only we can live a life to deserve such a level of peace.

Illuminating and painful.

Amazing interview

5:27 totally agree with Yeonmi Park that if you suffer basic human needs you are basically unhappy even if you can't compare with ohers. But the Soviet Union is not a very good example. Soviet Union was dominated by Russians and Ukranians. There is a specific cultural issue with these eastern slavic people: If you're smiling without an obvious reason something is wrong with you ! And this is the case still today, even in Ukraine which is (almost) a democracy. That doesn't mean that they are unhappy or unfriendly in general. I don't think that this has to do with the soviet background of these people but it's a cultural issue which maybe exists since the "Kyivan Rus". Its very interesting that we westeners (Germans in my case) and Koreans and other asian people have in common that we smile "without reason" just to make contact or "making good wather" ("Gut Wetter machen" in german) or showing good intentions.

Amazing interview, thank you! 💜

Thank you! ❤

We shall re-discover freedom and learn to reject license.

The last quarter sounds like she's expressing her experiences with the " gated institutional narrative

Yeonmi, I are surprise you say your are not a Christian...The one and only God of creation take of you. Now you have opportunity to give God the glory

@soniavadnjal7553

3 жыл бұрын

Good heavens, with that background, how could she be brought to believe in God, or any god. Perhaps with time.

@MrJm323

3 жыл бұрын

The aggressive Christian missionaries (Korean and Chinese) she eventually came into contact with while in China, the same people who saved her by smuggling her to Mongolia and arranging for her flight to South Korea, had shamed her or guilt-tripped her for the sexual things she had done (really things forced on her) to survive. She acquiesced to sexual demands and even helped one pimp in his trafficking operation for a short while in order to garner favors from them (like getting them to re-purchase her mother from a farmer to whom she was "sold"). Like other cultists, aggressive Christian missionaries use guilt and shame to emotionally manipulate their followers -- to get them to "cleanse" themselves by devoting themselves to doing things "for Christ". I'm not sure that she is an atheist (and, for disclosure, I am an atheist), but I don't think she is a Christian. I'm sure she must be grateful to those missionaries -- likely, more grateful than to her sexual exploiters, some of whom she was able to bargain with to get closer to her goal; but, I can gather that their treatment toward her with regard to shaming her for her "sinful" concessions, probably put her off Christianity.

Did you ever marry (or think to marry) a western guy or prefer Korean?

@markfoertmeyer7690

3 жыл бұрын

What?