nah, at least you may get some eats now and then if the great leader decides he wants to bone you. not starving to death is a very good fate in NK actually. that's becouse the north koreans wouldn't be bothered by producing food for themselves as they are too busy kissing fat Kims fat ass and building nukes so he can kill us if he ever feels like it.
@@fuuz642 🤦🏽♀️how ignorant to act like any of it’s the ppl’s fault... they have NO CHOICE but to kiss his fat greedy ass so plz don’t attempt to dehumanize them anymore than he already has🙊 thx *btw i’m not being rude, just being realistic 🤗
I'm actually shocked Kim Jong Il spared his first wife by sending her to Russia. He actually did her a huge favor by releasing her, rather than sending her to a concentration camp.
He doesn't love himself, if he did its energetically impossible to cause violence, hatred and oppression. People who dont love themselves are the ones destroying the entire world. Think about it.
I don’t understand why people don’t understand that people outside of the US don’t marry for “love”, they marry for other reasons. Even Kings and Queens don’t marry for love, they marry to strengthen the family and gain more resources. Love has nothing to do with it. Get out of your fantasy la la land
@@zograf4572 Zografe, I think for me there is a difference. I am a gay man and love is all that matters to me, I could and would also perhaps marry one day someone who is an immigrant - who knows, if my locals disappoint me... 😉
if your skywizzard friend is real why would he let North Korean live that way the homeless the child abuse you may as well tell me Santa and Easter bunny are real grow up seek professional treatment you need it
There is this DW documentary made by a French film crew over the duration of 8 years. I get the impression they were paid by NK to make a positive propaganda documentary on how good regular folks really live in NK. Many viewers are buying it but to me it seems all staged. I find everything about NK disturbing.
@@reggieos6945 as much as I don’t believe in any all powerful deity, I do believe in deities (yes, in general) and since we don’t have an easier way to help the NK ppl rn, praying is absolutely harmless
I feel bad for the ladies who have to go through this. They don’t ask for this (nobody born in nk does) but they have to be 24hour on guard being so close to him. It must be so horrible.
@@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj firstly, do you not know what "i wonder" means? it's a hypothetical question, smart one. secondly, that was 2 years ago get a grip lol
I know it is very important to expose this horrific, brutal regime. But to be perfectly honest, the true events being shared here are beginning to give me nightmares. I am a 55 year old married woman, I have never had anything effect me as profoundly as this young woman speaking her truth. God bless you, young miss.
Yes, I am a 40 yo married woman and I have read her book and try to listen to all of her videos, and they have affected me the same way. Yeonmi is so courageous to do everything she can to expose what is happening in NK. I always knew they were terrible, but I didn't realize how terrible it really is, and how much China is supporting NK. I hope you start sleeping better without nightmares, and thank you for caring so much. I now know I'm not the only one whose heart breaks for these people.
It is heartbreaking what happened her. Those crimes would not even be crimes in a free country. She got punished that she not commit. That is rare in many countries.
Actually it happens quietly, behind closed curtains everywhere including America. Take a look at "The Central Park 5"..... th-cam.com/video/Yj2eikcuGiA/w-d-xo.html
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Being blamed for a crime is quite wrong I agree, but that's still very different than getting punished because your uncle tried to cross the border. It's like if I had some family member I don't even speak too, possibly even someone I dislike and that family member tried to leave the united states and suddenly everybody related to him gets sentenced to force labor, and I might not even live in the same city as a family member or have spoke to them in years but I still get punished along with the rest of my family. Way different than being wrongly accused of a specific crime
Such sad and tragic stories. To be “loved” by the dictator could be also your demise. At the very least, this is upsetting and shocking to know that this behaviour and thinking is forced on people. Very sad.
You can save money and travel to South Korea. There you will find underground defectors who have escaped NK. Help them with money to eat and survive where they can sneak out of SK to a country without extradition which will send them back to NK.
@@JetFire9 We have to do a great job in putting together a very strong case that exposes Park as a deceitful opportunist & charlatan who took advantage of the Western society's goodwill & sympathy for her own financial gain. I also noticed that she seems to really enjoy the spotlight & relish in her celebrity status, which made me very weary about her real motives. But her contradictions, distortions & lies can't be excused away or justified. So many commenters here have made asinine remarks about trauma, developing memories, age counting differences, etc. in order to deny or deflect the objective facts presented here. Really sad that people become so emotionally invested in someone like Park to the point they are unable or unwilling to critically analyze the reality & the facts that clearly demonstrate her manipulation & fabrication of the facts. Personally I believe she is a despicable shameless opportunist. Which is really sad because this can harm the credibility of honest NK defectors & refugees. Just the South Korean show where her mother openly refutes her embellished & fabricated sob story is more than enough to convince any fair-minded, objective skeptic. And after seeing her on Fox "news" completely misrepresenting American history & the staff at Columbia University, it became apparent she has devolved into another right-wing hack who will say anything to gain sympathy & of course more $$$ & publicity. I also hate liars especially those who hide behind the mask of virtue.
Can we all just pause and praise the woman for trying so hard to speak in Impeccable English so it could manifest a larger audience . Loved the little historic backstory too ..... 🤗
I think to say he "fell in love" is too much. That's not love, it's a fixation on a stranger. And eventually, it most likely it ends up in manipulation and abuse, not an actual "love" relationship.
Please do your due diligence and research this woman's credibility. She has already been exposed as a fraud exaggerating/fabricating her claims. Her stories have been inconsistent and contradictory over the years, raising questions as to the veracity of her claims. Anyone who is tempted to believe that this woman might be telling the truth should look up "The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park" in The Diplomat. Park Yeonmi is a compulsive liar and a narcissist. (Google it!). She has been caught in a million lies and simply profits off her NK sob story and by virtue signaling. No better than Greta Thunburg! Short version, her story is full of holes and she has changed it multiple times (she can't even remember it consistently which is a problem with people who make things up since things that actually happened are just plain easier to remember than things you made up for profit.) Also see "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" in The Guardian. The combination of cash incentives (from various political organizations as well as the government) and the media’s constant pursuit for disturbing stories encourage refugees to exaggerate for financial rewards as well as popularity which in her case, she was able to use to tour the world AND become an actress. Also look up North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who wrote a bestselling book about his life in a gulag he was never actually in and admitted the fact AFTER earning vast sums of money with a memoir which he made up. Anything about the life about her family is said to be lies. Life in North Korea may be shit. Life in many countries of the world is shit. She was never a “defector”. At most she is a refugee, at least, an economic migrant. Her mother and herself lives like princesses according to testimony of people who knew her while she lived in the DPKR. She has become a Millionaire and is living the dream. Really sucks that TH-cam has made it so easy for con artists to create a channel with a fake bleeding heart story and get super rich off the caring public that falls for it. There's so much of this going on across many different subjects. QUOTE from : *Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World* "I’m writing this message because I care about human rights and North Korean defectors. I was initially a big supporter of Yeonmi Park until I read Mary Ann Jolley’s exposé at the Diplomat.com .Then I realized something was very wrong with Yeonmi’s story. So I began to do some research. The more I researched, the more shocked and outraged I became at the extent of her lies. Many people are still unaware of Jolley’s article or are not willing to believe that Yeonmi is misleading us. I made this document for everyone to see the truth. Ms. Park is doing serious harm to the human rights field and to North Korean defectors. After she is exposed, many people around the world are going to feel betrayed. They may not be willing to listen or care about other defectors. That would be a tragic mistake, since many other defectors are surely honest and deserve our support. The other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands. I was relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat.com article by taking her foundation website down. Her explanation (“it was a dummy website made by a friend that accidentally went live and couldn’t really receive donations”) is obviously very dubious. We should thank Jolley for helping to ensure that donations to defectors go through reputable charities, with oversight and clear guidelines for how the money will be used.I’m still very concerned that Yeonmi and some of the people around her have a high potential to mislead others and harm North Korean defector causes. So I’m sending this document out in the hopes that you will help spread the truth."
Yeonmi, to me you are the new Malala Yousafzai. A smart, brave and young human rights activist. I can't believe we're the same age you and I. I'll subscribe to your patron when I get a job. Stay safe
Is Malala actually smart btw? I haven't been following her closely, but to me she has seemed like just a random person who happened to be in a position where it was convenient for *others* to build her up to be the kind of public figure they made her. Of course, I'm not criticizing Malala here. It's just that she only seems like an average nice girl to me, propped up by others. Meanwhile, Yeonmi has just amazing levels of independent strength and is naturally predisposed to be an intellectual also (but is not someone that the biggest powers in the world would like to prop up so high, because Yeonmi is going up against China).
@@YeonmiParkOfficial Make a video about why you lie to us th-cam.com/video/HnAju4n4PW0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/4lVE4bbAk_k/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/PtCUqzQth1s/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/-GiWERASEPY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Iskhehsr5K4/w-d-xo.html
@@AlekseiRiikonen actually Malala survived being shot in the head while riding a school bus. She wanted to be a doctor, but after that incident she turned to politics.
Yeonmi, I wish all of your videos had closed-captioning, but this one and the previous one I watched do not. For many people who have a permanent hearing loss, it is so beneficial to be able to read the words if we cannot hear them all. Aside from that, thank you very much for speaking out on behalf of North Koreans who have no voice in their own country.
Wow, my initial thought was that being exiled to Russia would be some form of respite for that woman... but she was alone even after her child was murdered. I can’t even imagine this woman’s pain! The trauma of being born in the NK is extraordinary!
I’m so glad you got out! It’s heartbreaking to hear that an entire country has and is living in such insane conditions. I’m appalled by how citizens are treated. 🥺😶 the leaders have failed the people
Yeonmi you are an excellent communicater💎. Excellent storyteller. Excellent as far as languages go. Your lucky Kim never put his eyes on you......He never ever would've let you go.
you are actually a great person. I learned so much from you am so happy, you made it. thank you for existing. sending you positive vibes. have a great life.
In North Korea, are stories like this known but not really spoken of amongst everybody? I am just curious. You’re an information gold mine. Lately I’ve been watching 2 or 3 of your videos before bed and I’m in awe of how much you have to tell.
I am so happy that you yourself have made it to freedom. Thank you for everything that you do to spread awareness of the truth and the plight of the north Korean people. ❤your a great lady.
Came across this channel by accident,but now love listening to these truths. Always knew there was terrible evils happening,but to see and hear first hand testimony is both frightening and interesting.
My heart breaks for the people of North Korea! I couldn't imagine nor would I ever want to know what it's like living there!! It must be a living hell!! I am glad to see that you made it out of there!
Of course because of jealousy, she is his first love (was favored). Maybe, the mistress and the wife believe that "First love never dies", so they'd punish her because she got something that they never had.
Even the most beautiful thing on the world they're able to turn into suffer and sadness. In the most countries people dream to take the leader's attention, in NK this is like a curse
I doubt that Kim Jong un is even able to feel love for someone. He probably saw her, found her beautiful and wanted to keep her as one of his "possessions"
i am a japanese. there are many north korean in japan. they are allowed to get japanese citizenships but keep refusing... so strange to me. reason seems to be tax exempt...
North Korean people needs the spirit who helped my Haitians brother to fight for their freedom. We are still paying for our freedom but we are free even if it's not fully.
Yeonmi: I find your program very interesting, and I'm regular here. (I have one little suggestion: Very often you show extremely interesting photos, but you give too short time to watch them as you narrate. I think double time length would be better.)
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge, and especially for sharing your personal story. You are inspiring many people to nit give up un life ❤❤❤
I just found your channel recently and I absolutely adore you and your content. Your channel is VERY important. Just a suggestion for you with your videos: You’re never looking at the camera directly, guessing you’re probably watching yourself on a monitor? Whatever the case may be, I would definitely try adjusting your set to where it actually looks like your speaking directly to your audience. Makes a huge difference. Keep this going, you & your mission are very much loved. And much love from Oklahoma! - Jessica 🌙💜
Please do your due diligence and research this woman's credibility. She has already been exposed as a fraud exaggerating/fabricating her claims. Her stories have been inconsistent and contradictory over the years, raising questions as to the veracity of her claims. Anyone who is tempted to believe that this woman might be telling the truth should look up "The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park" in The Diplomat. Park Yeonmi is a compulsive liar and a narcissist. (Google it!). She has been caught in a million lies and simply profits off her NK sob story and by virtue signaling. No better than Greta Thunburg! Short version, her story is full of holes and she has changed it multiple times (she can't even remember it consistently which is a problem with people who make things up since things that actually happened are just plain easier to remember than things you made up for profit.) Also see "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" in The Guardian. The combination of cash incentives (from various political organizations as well as the government) and the media’s constant pursuit for disturbing stories encourage refugees to exaggerate for financial rewards as well as popularity which in her case, she was able to use to tour the world AND become an actress. Also look up North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who wrote a bestselling book about his life in a gulag he was never actually in and admitted the fact AFTER earning vast sums of money with a memoir which he made up. Anything about the life about her family is said to be lies. Life in North Korea may be shit. Life in many countries of the world is shit. She was never a “defector”. At most she is a refugee, at least, an economic migrant. Her mother and herself lives like princesses according to testimony of people who knew her while she lived in the DPKR. She has become a Millionaire and is living the dream. Really sucks that TH-cam has made it so easy for con artists to create a channel with a fake bleeding heart story and get super rich off the caring public that falls for it. There's so much of this going on across many different subjects. QUOTE from : *Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World* "I’m writing this message because I care about human rights and North Korean defectors. I was initially a big supporter of Yeonmi Park until I read Mary Ann Jolley’s exposé at the Diplomat.com .Then I realized something was very wrong with Yeonmi’s story. So I began to do some research. The more I researched, the more shocked and outraged I became at the extent of her lies. Many people are still unaware of Jolley’s article or are not willing to believe that Yeonmi is misleading us. I made this document for everyone to see the truth. Ms. Park is doing serious harm to the human rights field and to North Korean defectors. After she is exposed, many people around the world are going to feel betrayed. They may not be willing to listen or care about other defectors. That would be a tragic mistake, since many other defectors are surely honest and deserve our support. The other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands. I was relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat.com article by taking her foundation website down. Her explanation (“it was a dummy website made by a friend that accidentally went live and couldn’t really receive donations”) is obviously very dubious. We should thank Jolley for helping to ensure that donations to defectors go through reputable charities, with oversight and clear guidelines for how the money will be used.I’m still very concerned that Yeonmi and some of the people around her have a high potential to mislead others and harm North Korean defector causes. So I’m sending this document out in the hopes that you will help spread the truth."
This is going to seem dark, but could you do a video on concentration / labor camps that political prisoners go to? I've watched other videos who include cartoon drawings of testimonies of ex camp guards and even 1 escapee. Nevertheless the treatment is terrible and against any Geneva conference bylaws. I think with something exposing such tyranny, hopefully the video would spread like wildfire and get more attention, although it'll probably be a very hard video for you Yeonmi. Also what is your opinion on the movie "True North, by director Eiji Han Shimizu?
th-cam.com/video/vasmLxi_2Ew/w-d-xo.html This is the video i'm referring to. And please know this is not for the faint of heart and definitely NOT for children.
She is the same age as my children, she had no choice in her faith. Very sad. Thank you for sharing this with us. God please help the people from North Korea. 💙🕊️🌍⚕️🌎⚕️🌏🕯️💙
The story of the Kim Dynasty is so dramatic, some rich network in South Korea should create a whole soap opera style tv series about it. The whole world would go bonkers for it and finally pay attention
Wow I’m so glad to have found your channel and this video. Very informative you seem really fortunate to have gotten away from N. Korea. Stay encouraged beautiful one!
How do you know everything on all your video's you post? You said you left NK when you was 13. Can you explain where you are getting your information now?
The worst fate as a woman in NK is the Dictator to fall in love with you.
Thanks for the heart Miss Park, have a beautiful day ❤
nah, at least you may get some eats now and then if the great leader decides he wants to bone you.
not starving to death is a very good fate in NK actually.
that's becouse the north koreans wouldn't be bothered by producing food for themselves as they are too busy kissing fat Kims fat ass and building nukes so he can kill us if he ever feels like it.
@@fuuz642
🤦🏽♀️how ignorant to act like any of it’s the ppl’s fault... they have NO CHOICE but to kiss his fat greedy ass so plz don’t attempt to dehumanize them anymore than he already has🙊 thx
*btw i’m not being rude, just being realistic 🤗
Except it had nothing to do with love.
@@mercedes_420 ...and fat Kim derives his power from the people.
the people keeps him in power. without peoples support he'd be just another fat guy
I'm actually shocked Kim Jong Il spared his first wife by sending her to Russia. He actually did her a huge favor by releasing her, rather than sending her to a concentration camp.
Not the most graceful way, but at least she didn't die in torment and pain in concentration camp... :/
For NK, that’s a charitable kindness.
@Live Wire
I’m dead lmao
Is she allowed to leave Russia and enter other countries tho
@@starkistgacha8652 lol, Russia is still so much better
The First love of Kim Jong Un is Kim Jong Un, and nobody else.
His other love is Swiss cheese
He doesn't love himself, if he did its energetically impossible to cause violence, hatred and oppression. People who dont love themselves are the ones destroying the entire world. Think about it.
He doesn't even love himself
He a Gemini, they play too much.
I wouldn't go that far either. He's only attached to himself. A loveless creature.
"Unnatural" as Chaplin would say.
I thought his first love was cake.
and cheese
LMAO
And pork
@@twincherry4958 that'd be cannibalism
Very tasty
Kim Jong Un didn't love that poor woman. If you truly loved someone, you would want them to be happy, not treat them as a personal posession.
I doubt that he ever learnt how to deal with other people in a good way. He probably doesn't even know how to love.
@@solar0wind Damn straight.
That's an abusive relationship for ya! All the most horiffic actions and so much more!
Don't think he has the capacity to love
I don’t understand why people don’t understand that people outside of the US don’t marry for “love”, they marry for other reasons. Even Kings and Queens don’t marry for love, they marry to strengthen the family and gain more resources. Love has nothing to do with it. Get out of your fantasy la la land
This ain't love, this is lust
That's why pleasure squad is for
Gravity
You hit the nail
For many men, there is no difference.
@@zograf4572 Zografe, I think for me there is a difference. I am a gay man and love is all that matters to me, I could and would also perhaps marry one day someone who is an immigrant - who knows, if my locals disappoint me... 😉
God help all the people that are suffering over in that hell
if your skywizzard friend is real why would he let North Korean live that way the homeless the child abuse you may as well tell me Santa and Easter bunny are real grow up seek professional treatment you need it
@@reggieos6945 You honestly don't want to know the truth of the origin of the Santa tale, no idea about the Easter Bunny, keep smiling :)
@@redpantynightinc3198 i will keep smiling you crazy church nuts crack me up 😆
There is this DW documentary made by a French film crew over the duration of 8 years. I get the impression they were paid by NK to make a positive propaganda documentary on how good regular folks really live in NK. Many viewers are buying it but to me it seems all staged. I find everything about NK disturbing.
@@reggieos6945 as much as I don’t believe in any all powerful deity, I do believe in deities (yes, in general) and since we don’t have an easier way to help the NK ppl rn, praying is absolutely harmless
Fact check false: Kim Jong-Un's first love is an all you can eat buffet.
I wish, if that was his only love, then NK would be a better place to live in
@@rochisha9531 it'd be a better place if he did love her because then the guy would stop the current regime out of love
Cheese is his first love...or was it cigarettes?
Yeah. Hes ballooning in weight
Fat check*
I feel bad for the ladies who have to go through this. They don’t ask for this (nobody born in nk does) but they have to be 24hour on guard being so close to him. It must be so horrible.
i wonder what would happen if all women in north korea stopped having children
@@rankedskywars they’d be raped. She’s said a lot of women are beaten and raped and never get justice
@@haleyt3754 oh
@@rankedskywars what a stupid statement. Every woman loves her ancestry and will swear to bear the children of her beloved race.
@@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj firstly, do you not know what "i wonder" means? it's a hypothetical question, smart one. secondly, that was 2 years ago get a grip lol
this makes me even more frightened for his current wife and children. He obviously does not think much of women.
Duh
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 😂😂
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 try men instead? 👀
@@ilarious5729 whaaaaat
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 just saying, it looks like women in your life don't stay in your life. It's 2021, be progressive! 👀✊
Ugh can you imagine going to North Korea thinking it’s going to be better than Japan then just being stuck there with everything going on
Please Visit North Korea
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 So, you're still at it, huh?
@@BakedBuddy always
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 take that shit to the North Korean travel page or something. Everyone here knows the truth.
They went to concentration camp with her.
I know it is very important to expose this horrific, brutal regime. But to be perfectly honest, the true events being shared here are beginning to give me nightmares. I am a 55 year old married woman, I have never had anything effect me as profoundly as this young woman speaking her truth.
God bless you, young miss.
You are yet to hear my side of the story
me too.. nightmares 😣
ummm n such thing as her truth. She is simply speaking THE truth!!
Yes, I am a 40 yo married woman and I have read her book and try to listen to all of her videos, and they have affected me the same way. Yeonmi is so courageous to do everything she can to expose what is happening in NK. I always knew they were terrible, but I didn't realize how terrible it really is, and how much China is supporting NK. I hope you start sleeping better without nightmares, and thank you for caring so much. I now know I'm not the only one whose heart breaks for these people.
Good,
Now what will you do to end the nightmares that these people are "Actually" living everyday?
It is heartbreaking what happened her. Those crimes would not even be crimes in a free country. She got punished that she not commit. That is rare in many countries.
Actually it happens quietly, behind closed curtains everywhere including America. Take a look at "The Central Park 5".....
th-cam.com/video/Yj2eikcuGiA/w-d-xo.html
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Being blamed for a crime is quite wrong I agree, but that's still very different than getting punished because your uncle tried to cross the border. It's like if I had some family member I don't even speak too, possibly even someone I dislike and that family member tried to leave the united states and suddenly everybody related to him gets sentenced to force labor, and I might not even live in the same city as a family member or have spoke to them in years but I still get punished along with the rest of my family. Way different than being wrongly accused of a specific crime
Such sad and tragic stories. To be “loved” by the dictator could be also your demise. At the very least, this is upsetting and shocking to know that this behaviour and thinking is forced on people. Very sad.
reincarnation of Henry VIII
You dont get it. Its love. You tried to exploit Jim jam jum.
My heart hurts for the 25mill+ human beings - being silenced completely and organized with no option. What what what can I do
It’s coming here to the US. The tech oligarchs are silencing voices they disagree with. Next up, a social credit score like in China.
Huh
Vote republican
@@secondamendment8773 they already put you in facebook jail 30 days if you post negative comment of what they dont like ,,, gosh
You can save money and travel to South Korea. There you will find underground defectors who have escaped NK. Help them with money to eat and survive where they can sneak out of SK to a country without extradition which will send them back to NK.
I wrote a speech about you 5 years ago in undergrad, glad to see this in my recommended and that you are doing well ❤. You're strong beyond measure.
Thank you very much
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023, first post funee, this and all others just a bore.
@@leehaelters6182 nah, it’s still funny. Buck Fiden
@@deliadeliani9742 Yep, she has fraud written all over her face. I can’t believe people are so gullible.
@@JetFire9
We have to do a great job in putting together a very strong case that exposes Park as a deceitful opportunist & charlatan who took advantage of the Western society's goodwill & sympathy for her own financial gain. I also noticed that she seems to really enjoy the spotlight & relish in her celebrity status, which made me very weary about her real motives. But her contradictions, distortions & lies can't be excused away or justified. So many commenters here have made asinine remarks about trauma, developing memories, age counting differences, etc. in order to deny or deflect the objective facts presented here. Really sad that people become so emotionally invested in someone like Park to the point they are unable or unwilling to critically analyze the reality & the facts that clearly demonstrate her manipulation & fabrication of the facts.
Personally I believe she is a despicable shameless opportunist. Which is really sad because this can harm the credibility of honest NK defectors & refugees. Just the South Korean show where her mother openly refutes her embellished & fabricated sob story is more than enough to convince any fair-minded, objective skeptic. And after seeing her on Fox "news" completely misrepresenting American history & the staff at Columbia University, it became apparent she has devolved into another right-wing hack who will say anything to gain sympathy & of course more $$$ & publicity. I also hate liars especially those who hide behind the mask of virtue.
It seems that almost everybody that has something to do with KJU ends in a tragic story.
@@user-iz9hm9lp1s Unfortunately you are correct.
Poor girl...she was born same year as me she would be 30...that’s so young:(
Very young..
I m 30, consider myself old
@@sohiniaggrawal996 I'm 41 years old and I would kill to be 30 years old again
@@sexychocolateable 11 year age gap, I am 11 :0
94er here
I wouldn't say that man is capable of anything even remotely resembling "love".
Can we all just pause and praise the woman for trying so hard to speak in Impeccable English so it could manifest a larger audience .
Loved the little historic backstory too ..... 🤗
Such beautiful people. Its so sad they aren't treated right.
It's like a real-life K-drama...but not a good one...
can't be a real K-drama without a tragic car accident
This is a North Korean one that's why the ending is not good.
I was born in '90. The fact she was either one year older or the same age as I just made my eyebrows raise.
It happens sometimes 😁
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 It does. Lol.
AannW Rootbeer your eyes are so pretty.
@@untube9715 Well, thank you. :)
Not sure why.... people in political power are often stressed which in turn causes aging.
I think to say he "fell in love" is too much. That's not love, it's a fixation on a stranger. And eventually, it most likely it ends up in manipulation and abuse, not an actual "love" relationship.
Yeonmi is so good at telling her stories! So informative! She will be a key person in the fall/defeat of Evil Kim Jung Un!
My future wife
I wish I was as great a speaker as yeonmi
Yeonmi for North Korean president!
@@Kim_Jong_Un_2023 lol shut your mouth
Please do your due diligence and research this woman's credibility. She has already been exposed as a fraud exaggerating/fabricating her claims. Her stories have been inconsistent and contradictory over the years, raising questions as to the veracity of her claims.
Anyone who is tempted to believe that this woman might be telling the truth should look up "The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park" in The Diplomat. Park Yeonmi is a compulsive liar and a narcissist. (Google it!). She has been caught in a million lies and simply profits off her NK sob story and by virtue signaling. No better than Greta Thunburg!
Short version, her story is full of holes and she has changed it multiple times (she can't even remember it consistently which is a problem with people who make things up since things that actually happened are just plain easier to remember than things you made up for profit.) Also see "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" in The Guardian.
The combination of cash incentives (from various political organizations as well as the government) and the media’s constant pursuit for disturbing stories encourage refugees to exaggerate for financial rewards as well as popularity which in her case, she was able to use to tour the world AND become an actress. Also look up North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who wrote a bestselling book about his life in a gulag he was never actually in and admitted the fact AFTER earning vast sums of money with a memoir which he made up.
Anything about the life about her family is said to be lies. Life in North Korea may be shit. Life in many countries of the world is shit. She was never a “defector”. At most she is a refugee, at least, an economic migrant. Her mother and herself lives like princesses according to testimony of people who knew her while she lived in the DPKR. She has become a Millionaire and is living the dream.
Really sucks that TH-cam has made it so easy for con artists to create a channel with a fake bleeding heart story and get super rich off the caring public that falls for it. There's so much of this going on across many different subjects.
QUOTE from : *Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World*
"I’m writing this message because I care about human rights and North Korean defectors. I was initially a big supporter of Yeonmi Park until I read Mary Ann Jolley’s exposé at the Diplomat.com .Then I realized something was very wrong with Yeonmi’s story. So I began to do some research. The more I researched, the more shocked and outraged I became at the extent of her lies. Many people are still unaware of Jolley’s article or are not willing to believe that Yeonmi is misleading us. I made this document for everyone to see the truth. Ms. Park is doing serious harm to the human rights field and to North Korean defectors. After she is exposed, many people around the world are going to feel betrayed. They may not be willing to listen or care about other defectors. That would be a tragic mistake, since many other defectors are surely honest and deserve our support.
The other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands. I was relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat.com article by taking her foundation website down. Her explanation (“it was a dummy website made by a friend that accidentally went live and couldn’t really receive donations”) is obviously very dubious. We should thank Jolley for helping to ensure that donations to defectors go through reputable charities, with oversight and clear guidelines for how the money will be used.I’m still very concerned that Yeonmi and some of the people around her have a high potential to mislead others and harm North Korean defector causes. So I’m sending this document out in the hopes that you will help spread the truth."
This was so sad. It’s awful to think people are sent to concentration camps for no reason. 😞
It’s so important to know the truth and I thank you. The tragedies described are very heartbreaking and no one should experience this.
Yeonmi, to me you are the new Malala Yousafzai. A smart, brave and young human rights activist. I can't believe we're the same age you and I. I'll subscribe to your patron when I get a job. Stay safe
♥️
Is Malala actually smart btw? I haven't been following her closely, but to me she has seemed like just a random person who happened to be in a position where it was convenient for *others* to build her up to be the kind of public figure they made her.
Of course, I'm not criticizing Malala here. It's just that she only seems like an average nice girl to me, propped up by others. Meanwhile, Yeonmi has just amazing levels of independent strength and is naturally predisposed to be an intellectual also (but is not someone that the biggest powers in the world would like to prop up so high, because Yeonmi is going up against China).
@@YeonmiParkOfficial Make a video about why you lie to us th-cam.com/video/HnAju4n4PW0/w-d-xo.html
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@@charlieshannon4779 you fool, that easily debunked video has over 1,000 downvotes. How embarrassing for you 😂😂😂😂
@@AlekseiRiikonen actually Malala survived being shot in the head while riding a school bus. She wanted to be a doctor, but after that incident she turned to politics.
I really really hope that within the next 20 years we will see the North Korean people be freed
I hope it's sooner
With in the year tf you mean
You wonder if she loved him back . It's similar to Romeo and Juliet but he doesn't die as well.
Wrong Analogy on this one, nothing like Romeo and Juliet..
There is not a single similarity expect that the woman died lol
He and his constituents are not capable of love. They lust after women, but could NEVER truly fall in love.
@Trinity M I apologize. I don't mean to include everyday citizens. I only mean him and his inner circle. Constituents was the wrong word to use.
Literally everyone: do something for your country oh my god everyone is starving
Kim jong il: you know what we really need is a girl band
So happy you made it out to tell us all these fascinating stories. I'm so sorry for what is happening to your people.
She was the cutest one of his girls. No wonder they were jealous of her.
I am chinese.his wife, mistress and ex looks a like.
@@JanooseCanada true.. But his wife is more beautiful I think
@@comradeleppi2000 all are slaves.
Love how you used history to tell this story. These are things I was not taught in school so thank you for educating me.
You have such a lovely voice and speak English so well! Thanks for sharing, very tragic but super interesting! 👍🏽
Yeonmi, I wish all of your videos had closed-captioning, but this one and the previous one I watched do not. For many people who have a permanent hearing loss, it is so beneficial to be able to read the words if we cannot hear them all. Aside from that, thank you very much for speaking out on behalf of North Koreans who have no voice in their own country.
😁
It has closed-captions for me. click the button bottom right.
Wow, my initial thought was that being exiled to Russia would be some form of respite for that woman... but she was alone even after her child was murdered. I can’t even imagine this woman’s pain! The trauma of being born in the NK is extraordinary!
You are a very, very brave woman.
Your bravery is helping other people to open their eyes.
You're clever, positive,
and also a very beautiful woman.
So tragic! Such abject cruelty! God bless you Yeonmi for spreading the word about this evil. Good you are shining a light on it.
Thank you for opening our eyes to how horrible people are treated in this country. Heart breaking!
I’m so glad you got out! It’s heartbreaking to hear that an entire country has and is living in such insane conditions. I’m appalled by how citizens are treated. 🥺😶 the leaders have failed the people
Yeonmi you are an excellent communicater💎. Excellent storyteller. Excellent as far as languages go. Your lucky Kim never put his eyes on you......He never ever would've let you go.
Thank you for educating all of us Yeonmi. Those poor women 😢
you are actually a great person. I learned so much from you
am so happy, you made it. thank you for existing. sending you positive vibes.
have a great life.
3:47 What a Beautiful shot of Mount Fuji in Japan ! Thanks for this particular one Yeonmi and many other lovely shot's you give us ! :)
Corona shot
He's not capable of loving anyone more than he loves himself. Everyone else is expendable
In North Korea, are stories like this known but not really spoken of amongst everybody? I am just curious. You’re an information gold mine. Lately I’ve been watching 2 or 3 of your videos before bed and I’m in awe of how much you have to tell.
I am so happy that you yourself have made it to freedom. Thank you for everything that you do to spread awareness of the truth and the plight of the north Korean people. ❤your a great lady.
He didn’t love her, he loved ( lusted ) her beauty....
The Kims. Such a screwed up family. Very tragic unfortunately for the millions of NK people.
I love that your videos are mini-history lessons as well as cultural lessons. I learn something new every time I watch your videos.
Came across this channel by accident,but now love listening to these truths. Always knew there was terrible evils happening,but to see and hear first hand testimony is both frightening and interesting.
Thank you for making so many lives known to us! Yeonmi, you are incredible! God bless you, swtz!
Yeonmi Park thanks a lot for this tragic story passed to the public. Please keep going and keep in touch.
Evil craves destroying virtue.
Thank you for sharing and educating us about these horrors. So sorry you had to endure such pain.
My heart breaks for the people of North Korea! I couldn't imagine nor would I ever want to know what it's like living there!! It must be a living hell!! I am glad to see that you made it out of there!
It's really frustrating tot hunk about how they could have prevented all this if they stayed in Japan. I feel so bad for them.
Thank you so much again my dear Park Yeonmi! You are a wonderful and patient teacher!..Please always continue!
What Kim Jong-un did to her was truly terrible. Thank you for telling her story to us.
A pianist and cute. Wow. I love beautiful female pianists. I wish she had been born in the US.
Why did his wife and mistress specifically dislike her?
Of course because of jealousy, she is his first love (was favored). Maybe, the mistress and the wife believe that "First love never dies", so they'd punish her because she got something that they never had.
I just bought your book! Thank you for sharing your story and all the information about the country.
You have so many interesting stories to tell. I just can't wait till next video.Have a blessed day .
It's all about me
Used like dolls and then tossed aside. 😐
Even the most beautiful thing on the world they're able to turn into suffer and sadness. In the most countries people dream to take the leader's attention, in NK this is like a curse
I doubt that Kim Jong un is even able to feel love for someone. He probably saw her, found her beautiful and wanted to keep her as one of his "possessions"
I am sure you could right a book and plenty of people will read it. Please keep posting, we love your story.
Reality, You are behind the times. Yeonmi already has a book out you can buy. She has all the info you need underneath her videos. All the best.
this story makes me want to compose a piece of music for piano
Kim Jong UN is and looks like Eric Cartman
CamradeTV 😆
Me like who ?
i am a japanese. there are many north korean in japan. they are allowed to get japanese citizenships but keep refusing... so strange to me. reason seems to be tax exempt...
The world needs to rescue these people. It’s so sad and awful what these people endure
North Korean people needs the spirit who helped my Haitians brother to fight for their freedom. We are still paying for our freedom but we are free even if it's not fully.
Yeonmi: I find your program very interesting, and I'm regular here.
(I have one little suggestion:
Very often you show extremely interesting photos,
but you give too short time to watch them as you narrate.
I think double time length would be better.)
Thank you for your wonderful feedback! I truly appreciate it ♥️
Thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge, and especially for sharing your personal story. You are inspiring many people to nit give up un life ❤❤❤
I want to read your book so badly! 😭 I’ve learned so much from watching your videos
you definitely should!
Hey! Could you make a video about Otto Warmbier? I would love to hear your thoughts on that story. Love from Europe ❤️
Yes, agree!!! What a tragic story 💔
You are such a lovely beautiful woman Ms Yeonmi Park.
Much love 💕 to you from Tennessee USA 🇺🇸
I just found your channel recently and I absolutely adore you and your content. Your channel is VERY important.
Just a suggestion for you with your videos: You’re never looking at the camera directly, guessing you’re probably watching yourself on a monitor? Whatever the case may be, I would definitely try adjusting your set to where it actually looks like your speaking directly to your audience. Makes a huge difference.
Keep this going, you & your mission are very much loved. And much love from Oklahoma!
- Jessica 🌙💜
Thank you very much
For what?
@@Jessica-me3pl Thanks again
Please do your due diligence and research this woman's credibility. She has already been exposed as a fraud exaggerating/fabricating her claims. Her stories have been inconsistent and contradictory over the years, raising questions as to the veracity of her claims.
Anyone who is tempted to believe that this woman might be telling the truth should look up "The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park" in The Diplomat. Park Yeonmi is a compulsive liar and a narcissist. (Google it!). She has been caught in a million lies and simply profits off her NK sob story and by virtue signaling. No better than Greta Thunburg!
Short version, her story is full of holes and she has changed it multiple times (she can't even remember it consistently which is a problem with people who make things up since things that actually happened are just plain easier to remember than things you made up for profit.) Also see "Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?" in The Guardian.
The combination of cash incentives (from various political organizations as well as the government) and the media’s constant pursuit for disturbing stories encourage refugees to exaggerate for financial rewards as well as popularity which in her case, she was able to use to tour the world AND become an actress. Also look up North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk who wrote a bestselling book about his life in a gulag he was never actually in and admitted the fact AFTER earning vast sums of money with a memoir which he made up.
Anything about the life about her family is said to be lies. Life in North Korea may be shit. Life in many countries of the world is shit. She was never a “defector”. At most she is a refugee, at least, an economic migrant. Her mother and herself lives like princesses according to testimony of people who knew her while she lived in the DPKR. She has become a Millionaire and is living the dream.
Really sucks that TH-cam has made it so easy for con artists to create a channel with a fake bleeding heart story and get super rich off the caring public that falls for it. There's so much of this going on across many different subjects.
QUOTE from : *Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World*
"I’m writing this message because I care about human rights and North Korean defectors. I was initially a big supporter of Yeonmi Park until I read Mary Ann Jolley’s exposé at the Diplomat.com .Then I realized something was very wrong with Yeonmi’s story. So I began to do some research. The more I researched, the more shocked and outraged I became at the extent of her lies. Many people are still unaware of Jolley’s article or are not willing to believe that Yeonmi is misleading us. I made this document for everyone to see the truth. Ms. Park is doing serious harm to the human rights field and to North Korean defectors. After she is exposed, many people around the world are going to feel betrayed. They may not be willing to listen or care about other defectors. That would be a tragic mistake, since many other defectors are surely honest and deserve our support.
The other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands. I was relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat.com article by taking her foundation website down. Her explanation (“it was a dummy website made by a friend that accidentally went live and couldn’t really receive donations”) is obviously very dubious. We should thank Jolley for helping to ensure that donations to defectors go through reputable charities, with oversight and clear guidelines for how the money will be used.I’m still very concerned that Yeonmi and some of the people around her have a high potential to mislead others and harm North Korean defector causes. So I’m sending this document out in the hopes that you will help spread the truth."
This is going to seem dark, but could you do a video on concentration / labor camps that political prisoners go to? I've watched other videos who include cartoon drawings of testimonies of ex camp guards and even 1 escapee. Nevertheless the treatment is terrible and against any Geneva conference bylaws. I think with something exposing such tyranny, hopefully the video would spread like wildfire and get more attention, although it'll probably be a very hard video for you Yeonmi. Also what is your opinion on the movie "True North, by director Eiji Han Shimizu?
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This is the video i'm referring to. And please know this is not for the faint of heart and definitely NOT for children.
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Not as drastic, but still not good to watch
God bless you. Stay safe!
The tragic waste of human lives and human talents is hard to even comprehend.
Yeonmi keep up the good work, u are an inspiration
Thankyou for the story of the truth! I am glad your safe here in the free world.
Just when I think my life is so Terrible you tell me about what real Tara is and what real suffering is.
Wow interesting love story of Kim Jong un first love .How sad that she was sent to a continuation camp along with her family.
Noooooooo
She is the same age as my children, she had no choice in her faith.
Very sad.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
God please help the people from North Korea.
💙🕊️🌍⚕️🌎⚕️🌏🕯️💙
Prayers going out for the people under this dictatorship. May they be set free soon and understand the truth. Prayers for our world as well. 🙏
The story of the Kim Dynasty is so dramatic, some rich network in South Korea should create a whole soap opera style tv series about it. The whole world would go bonkers for it and finally pay attention
I said yesterday...
I say it today...
I will say it tomorrow...
THANK YOU YEONMI PARK!
Hello from Canada. You have exquisite design instinct. Your furnishings, clothing and settings are always so tasteful.
Thank You Yeonmi!
You look so beautiful, modest and honorable! 😘💕
what happened to subtitles? I like using them :(
I think the automatically generated subtitles show up only a few hours after a video is published, so not yet.
Wow I’m so glad to have found your channel and this video. Very informative you seem really fortunate to have gotten away from N. Korea. Stay encouraged beautiful one!
Miss Park,you're VERY brave and VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! Bless you,madam!!!!!💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌟😻
These videos are always so interesting KEEP GOING YEONMI❤️.
How do you know everything on all your video's you post? You said you left NK when you was 13. Can you explain where you are getting your information now?
I admire your strength and courage. Your story is very humbling I hope the liberation of your people come soon💙
Hi yeonmi I am your fan you really inspired me so much and you also taught me that to never give up even if u can't see the light ....thank u ....