I mean when conservatives prove themselves time and time again to be really dumb and love to throw money at people it's not surprising at all that so many people jump on the wagon.
I've heard she was a grifter for a long time. After hearing her talk about "woke" stuff I immediately agreed. Seems to be what a bunch of politcal grifters are doing nowadays so it's barely suprising to me rn.
The first warning sign for me was when she began talking about "cancel culture" with a right-wing lens. I then immediately noped out when she started to go on Candace Owens's show.
I watched an hour and a half TH-cam video that ripped apart her discrepancies and just lies. I used to watch her videos because information about North Korea is so scarce but quickly just by her editing and videos you could tell she exaggerated and catered to the general white republican man. It’s so depressing when people spread misinformation because we have to undo it all and present actual information and fact.
“I was beat by 3 black women” “I was beat by a man and woman” No reason her story should change so much. First there’s two people from two sexes. Then there’s three people from one sex. I’ve been a victim of crime, but even if I don’t remember the number of guys who’ve jumped me, I wouldn’t pretend like I know the exact number or sex of the perpetrators, especially if I’m being interviewed on it. Then the lie about not prosecuting is just a blatant lie. It’s sad, because Rogan just spread those lies and never verified or tried to verify the claims. This is part of the reason i don’t listen to podcasters who have random guests, and no real standard to fact check the things their guests say, which does impact the views and opinions of listeners.
Yeonmi Parks story sounded heartbreaking the first hour I heard her talking, then pretty quickly it became obvious she overexaggerates and lies a lot. She has pretty much survived 300 years of torture according to herself. She talks about all these things like only eating 1 grain of rice for 10 years, then eating rats for 10 years and then dirt for 10 years before coming to America, but she was 20 years old.
SHE IS CORRECT. The problem is, that you do not believe her, because you have never been in North Korea. I my younger days I had contacts with a North Korean Friendship Organization, so I can CONFIRM her claims. It was (and is) exactly as bad as she claims. You are an ignorant fool!
13 when she left, wasn’t she? Although didn’t she also say she saw a smuggled vhs of titanic when 20 which was the first time she realised that the government lied and that you could love people other than the leader which is crazy as I’m sure she loved her family previously and knew it.
Yeomni Park has been exposed so many times before. I’m glad more people are starting to catch on. She has built a successful brand on lying about a country where people actually suffer. Not only is it bad because she spreads misinformation, but it also raises suspicion towards innocent people who sharing their real stories about their suffering in North Korea.
Yeah, but even still, people will either believe her or think she's a liar, regardless of how many times she's "exposed". I mean, look at Joe Biden, he's been exposed as a liar many, many times, yet most people on the left ignore that and continue to believe him.
Yeonmi Park once said, "In North Korea, Rats eat the babies, then babies eat those rats." I think that's enough said to discredit how insane her claims are.
And where's the same energy for the Amerikkkan politicians that likewise lie and spew provably false nonsense? Seems we're real good on the internet at getting random people cancelled for dumb shit, but the politicians and investor thieves seem to have no repurcussions ever🤔
@@cpu_1292I think this one may have been a translation issue actually. A lot of wild plants are only edible when they first emerge in the spring, and then as they mature they start building up bitter compounds and getting tougher to the point when they can't really be eaten. It's especially true with greens. She's definitely not the most credible person though so I may be giving her too much credit here.
I remember John Oliver doing a segment on North Korea, and pointing out how because the country is so secretive with how it carries out its authoritarian rule, it's incredibly easy for people in Western countries to believe overly exaggerated claims about the country.
Kim executed senior staff from the previous administration publicly with a flak gun, like it was the freaking middle ages. It's a medieval, feudal kingdom. I think we characterize it pretty accurately.
Of course Oliver wants to downplay the atrocities in North Korea, he doesn't want the similarities made with the left. Same reason why the left is attacking the sound of freedom, a movie about stopping child trafficking. The left is an abhorrent group.
That is true for north korean too. She left when she was a child. She is repeating stories that was told to her to keep the people in line, it's not a journalistic report.
The more I listened to her I just thought it was bizarre that she was so openly talking about all these horrific events that happened to her. It seem like every time I opened up TH-cam she was on a podcast talking about more horrible events. That’s when I started thinking that she might be full of sh*t. It amazes me what people will do for attention. Not to mention there’s so many ways to fact check people nowadays that it seems absolutely ridiculous to go on the Internet and lie over and over and over again.
Same for me, she was all over my feed at first and I thought it seemed a little too open for someone claiming to be risking their life for sharing that ‘info’ publicly. Usually when these people come out sharing their experiences you don’t even see their faces.
nooo you can’t mention that !! north korea is bad, remember? america would neeevverrr have prison camps or let civilians be murdered in the streets, by the hand of the government 😱 north korea all bad, merica all good !
Every power acts that way during war. Not saying it's ok or right, just saying that it isn't just the US. Anti US people love ignoring the terrible shit their own country does or have done. It's human nature after all.
Her lying infuriates me. I had two North Korean students in my classes when I was teaching in South Korea. Due to their experiences there and how those experiences affected their development, both were behind by about a year or two. It broke my heart because they were some of my best students- they always tried their best and were always kind to their classmates, teachers, and school staff. Those kids struggled. That lady clearly didn't. She could be doing so much good right now, but is choosing not to because she's money hungry.
People getting executed for smuggling western products and going to forced labor camps for the smallest thing is true though.. What is she lying about? From what I've heard of her, her stories align with every other survivor I've seen along with all the videos and inside footage documentaries I've seen from there. You start your statement with "she's lying" then you confirm her horrible accounts with your NK-students? The shit she's seen and remember is far worse than you'd think, and the mother might be killed if she says anything negative about NK. I'm 100% sure this is a payed ploy by North Korea to discredit her and call her accounts for "western propaganda" because she's more popularly known than the other survivors. Also, there are video footage of people making bread out of roadside grass and weeds, and there are other survivors whom claimed the same shit long before Yeonmi escaped in 2009.
@@edwardmartin3549 Pardon? Where did you get male students in there? I'm a bit confused. I can only see one comment, but it shows there are 3- this may mean that I'm missing context. If I'm missing context, would someone please put it below? If not, please read on: For their privacy, I won't reveal the gender/sex of either student, but, even then, this wouldn't matter, and I don't know why anyone but them would need to know this information anyway. These are their lives and they know who they are and how they feel about themselves. We have no right to dictate another person's life just because it's different from how we live ours. I find it incredibly strange how people are so defensive about transgender issues when it literally has no affect on you as a person whatsoever. It's the same argument I give with those who have issues with the LGBTQIA+ community and a quote I came up with when discussing this at one time: "It ain't your body; it ain't your bedroom; it ain't your business." To me, too many people have too little going on in their own lives that they have to stick their noses into the lives of people they don't even know who are just trying to live their lives in the truest way they can. Even if you did know the person, I still refer to the quote above. I must say, though, what a miserable way to live- going around and telling people what they should be according to you, when you yourself will never be the perfection you have in your own mind. It all boils down to insecurity in one's self, otherwise, people would know it won't affect them and just let others be. The sad truth is that path where your insecurity dictates every part of your life and you are forcing what you believe are fixes for your own insecurities on others leads to fear, isolation, paranoia, and can go as far as to suicide when you've backed yourself into a corner with it far enough. Hate doesn't just hurt the one being hated, and those who hate can't seem to understand this. Hate is a choice. Why choose it when there are so many more negatives as opposed to choosing love? I truly hope you look for help. Look for peace. Let others live as they know is best for them and focus on you- in doing so, you may find that there are some wonderful trans people out there with tons in common with you that just want to be your friend and nothing more.
In other news Trump is still saying he won the election. Conservatives are also still saying every illness a celebrity gets was caused by the vaccine. Oh and the Trans want your kids.
eh democratic people are able do this because after the word its literally just a person meaning regardless of their politic leaning, if the person is a piece of garbage like this women then they are willing to do that.
I’m surprised how long it took people to catch on to what a liar she is. A lot of defectors lie, but her stories are just outlandish and they keep changing too just like her face.
I feel really cheated. Yeonmi's book had a grave emotional reaction from me, and I shared the book with so many friends because it impacted me so much. I've kept it with me for years because I wanted a reminder of the atrocities that go on in North Korea. Knowing that it's full of lies and half-truths, written by a liar, I guess I have kindling for my next bonfire now.
I mean if you listened critically to what she said and the claims of what she was making, it's kinda obvious she's full of it. I think people like trauma p O rn of it all. When she started discussing race issues in a ridiculous way I just stopped listening to her.
No offense but you would be better off carrying a book around that talks about the atrocities committed by your own country. It's senseless to demonize and/or fear a country on the other side of the world when ours are so monstrous. I'd recommend Michael parenti's black shirts and reds and I've heard settlers is a good book as well but have never personally read it
Looking back it’s obvious she’s been lying for years now, but America has such a distorted view on NK that her lies seem believable through lack of evidence. How is there a program to send USB’s with western shows and movies to the North Koreans if they’re starving and eating rats wearing rags and living in huts? What are they gonna plug those USB’s into?
@@canadiansmartiesyou know you can criticize other countries, while still holding your own up to a standard? Whomever is talked about changes on the conversation, Philly D and by extension his fan base primarily criticize the US for its issues because it’s literally close at home for them. Occasionally talking about other countries doesn’t diminish that, especially if those other countries are active in the wider cultural zeitgeist. What you are doing is classic “whataboutism”, grow up
@@frankwest5388 I'm replying to the guy who carries around a copy of yeonmi parks book. In my opinion that energy would be better used to inform people of our own countries atrocities. It's silly to waste your time running around telling people that North Korea is bad because that is already the popular opinion. I think the people who do this are well meaning however they aren't making any meaningful change. It's an easy way for people to feel like they are doing good while challenging the system you live within is much more difficult and often isn't very rewarding as others don't accept it as easily as pointing fingers at others.
We put HOW much into our military?! They have enough to make sure this man and those families are taken care of the rest of their lives. This is disgusting. Why don’t human lives matter?
The military budget DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. Let me repeat: THE MILITARY BUDGET DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. There is a distinct, separate budget category for money appropriated to Veteran's Affairs. This is why I'm always angry when the reich wing tries to push for more military funding "tO tAKe cArE oF tEh vEtERaNs."
Rich people put money into the military so they can extract resources from other countries to make more money. Human lives never enter into it (edit: they only seem to exit it, come to think about it)
The American economy has been entirely dependent on slaughtering nations' worth of people since World War 2. Without continuing to do actions that have bordered on outright genocide multiple times over the decades the entire country's economy would collapse. The only thing that can change it would be a president committing to completely destroying the military industrial complex and building something new to replace it, but that will require millions of Americans to lose their jobs and find new ones.
I'm sorry what? Being free and being able to do what you want is the same as North Korea? Nah she found out that one of the easiest ways to make money in the US right now is to be a right wing grifter.
@@badwolf3618it is profitable but not as much as the right-wing grifters who have a larger amount of wealthy industries with shitty practices willing to toss money at them. Like the gun industry, and oil among others. That's why there are a lot more right wing grifters than there are left.
@@sybill123ful you are assuming I am mad because I corrected the original commenter. I am not mad. You just wanna assume I am so that you don't have to engage with my argument.
I'M SO GLAD PEOPLE ARE BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS ********. I used to watch her stuff, and then I saw one video where she said, "In the spring, we can't even find a rat to eat." She had the same exact tone as the compulsive liars I've met.
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what it was about her that sent off alarm bells. Her tone. I just recently saw a video of her and I believed it, but... Something didn't sit right with me so I went hunting and found this and so much more.
I first heard of her from Rogan. I remember after she was telling stories about eating rats that just ate her friends somehow Rogan connected it to the govt response to Covid and how it was similar to North Korea. That was when I really started dialing back on my Joe Rogan consumption.
Yeah I'm not a Joe Rogan hater, I've had a soft spot for the guy since News Radio but the way he often just let's people spew blatant lies unquestionably and spins it into a right wing narrative turned me off from his podcast. I still listen from time to time when he has a comedian on but that's about it
I hate Rogan. Always have. He shows up in my TH-cam shorts feed all the time even though I dislike and move on right away. I have no idea how so many people find him entertaining.
Yeeah Rogan has gotten objectively dumber and dumber over the years. Or maybe it's just more obvious now and he's always been dumb hard to say. But yeah I used to watch him all the time and now I never do because he not only brings on really dumb people like Park but often times when he does he also says really really stupid things. He just says stupid shit all the time these days.
I visited North Korea a few years ago. I remember afterwards seeing her talk to Jordan Peterson and making claims about how there is no love in North Korea even between family members and I thought at the time that seemed like a pretty outlandish claim.
That thing about no love between family members is not true. I just watched an older documentary the other day, it was about a South Korean woman who visited NK, and in one part she was in a NK families home. You could see the families love for each other was genuine. There are also stories on TH-cam about NK defectors who wish they could go back because they miss their family so much .
I read a story about the horrors real saviors have gone through and how she using other people's experiences and claiming as her own is utterly disgusting. It undermines real people who have experience the horrors of North Korea. It's pathetic. The fact her stories keep changing up doesn't help her case. I understand she wants the money and fame but the internet remembers. It's only going to come back and bite her. However, I pray those who have escaped continue to share their stories and they have healed.
I’m not saying someone couldn’t be that numb about something but on Rogan show while she talked about how her and her mom were trafficked was like she wasn’t really talking about something happening to her personally. Like if I told someone else’s story. Even if I could have experienced half of that on my own I wouldn’t be able to not have tears talking about it. If the story also included my mom. No shot. You would hear the trauma. How was she not traumatized by it? She showed more feelings when she lied about being robbed because at least some of the story did happen. I wonder if she was punched or just robbed.
@@genericamerican7574you know , you can say she's faking her North Korean experience, but let's not come up with rubbish like she lied about being robbed. The person who robbed her was literally caught and sent to jail for 2 years lmao. Just search up Lecretia Harris
I really used to follow her initially and she was really inspiring.....at the beginning. But the she started grifting 😒😒 She went the most obvious right wing grifting route and I just knew this girl is not being so genuine. Not surprised that this scandal has come about
I've had people take my experiences and told them as if it was their friend's, so I can tell you that it definitely hurts! It isn't an ethical thing to do. However, the situation here is one of giving voice to those who have none, and while it is being done in a selfish manner, for fame, we need to focus on the actual issue at hand, which is the threat to democracy. We need to be able to recognize the signs of a society plunging into destabilization and the legalized destruction of our freedoms. I fear that only those who've witnessed what a society without freedom is, can speak knowledgeably on the matter.
Maybe she misspoke and forget some details? Lots of what she's said about her experiences and life in North Korea is hard to corroborate anyway. Very few know what's really going on in a closed off society like that
Park's lies definitely hurt real survivors & sadly this isn't new since there have been multiple incidents of such liers gaining fame around some tragedies/awful situations considering it's human nature to want to know about a tragedy while real survivors are too traumatized to speak at that moment. However sooner or later, these liers get caught up in their stories as they get addicted to fame & keep exaggerating their stories as they go on.
All true , She's a deceptive and manupulative person, I can't feel a hint of genuine empathy in herself, those crocodile tears and made up fake emotions in most of her interviews are talking. She doesn't seem to care about them, she uses her tale as a self serving way to thrive. Oddly enough, what she denounces is exactly what she seems to be : Corrupted and inhumane
I read Park's first book (In Order to Live) in 2021 for my Human Rights class and hearing all the rhetoric she has been pushing leaves me awe. It is completely opposite to what she explored in her memoir, especially from the political sense. Unless I am misremembering the contents of her book: Park stayed away from exploring political ideology/theory in North Korea and how it may overlap with that of the Western World. Listening and reading what Park has described in the last few years leaves me with mental puzzle as to what type of person Park is. On one hand the experiences Yunmi Park described in her first book (such as the anxiety and fear she lived with for most of her childhood due to starvation and worry over her family being imprisoned) left me with a mountain of respect for her. But with all the red flags that have risen in the last 3-4 years I am lead to believe she is two-faced, pathological liar.
@@dreamydavidzzz Most of america is fragile white folks who jump from one party to another depending on who is more popular. Most of these ppl were right wing grifters and now act liberal as if she wasnt saying this for years.
I’m glad people are finally bringing up Yeonmi Park‘s exaggerations…there is relatively little information that comes out of North Korea but there’s not NO information--it’s frustrating because there’s no need to exaggerate horrors or hardships, but even with my limited experience studying and visiting the area it was painfully obvious that’s what she was doing-- and it’s harmful for North Korean defectors who often have a very challenging and unenviable adjustment after defecting. And need support not people doubting them because she’s making claims about people having to push trains or whatever.
Lol what did u even get out of writing that? Foreal, everyone be putting time and effort into a comment that 24 people like, but I understand the left needs constant attention so you go girl!!
@@blazemaurice5437 it got 16 more in 50 min. Disparaging the amount of likes on a post to underplay the argument is a fallacy. Not a logical argument. I don't even care what she said I am just one throwing your logic back at you, that people vibe with her comment there for it has merit (a fallacy yes the same one you used, just adding this so you fully understand). And telling you, you suck at debate. Work on your rhetoric before you write an argument. You made positive claims, "left needs constant attention," but you gave no evidence. Even if you claim this single comment as evidence. in a country of 334,240,000 people, with a total voter turn out of 62.8% of all people who can vote in the last election for a turn out of 168,420,000/252,230,000. To follow that up, 51.3% of those voters voted left, so you have around 81,000,000 votes for the left. You have identified 1 person of the 81,000,000 who voted of the left last election for the left as, "needing attention." With evidence of 1/81,000,000 minimum all the way to 1/129,393,990 if we extrapolate our data to the entire population that can vote. Then you have not shown that your statement is true. If you wish to look into trends and how data on trends works I would point you to youtube. This comment would be the size of a small book if I wrote out all of the data proving why 1/81,000,000 is not a trend. Needless to say, it is thousands of times lower then it would need to be to even be supporting evidence. I don't even care about politics, you all just suck at arguing and it's annoying.
@@blazemaurice5437 Could say the same to you. Why even type this out just to complain about nothing? If anyone is attention seeking it’s you. Atleast they had something to add to the topic at hand, unlike you.
You know.. According to this video, Hasan attacks her for underplaying how bad it is in North Korea, and her mother attacks her for exaggeration. Accounts like her's about the place we're told long before she escaped in 09 though, there's even video footage of people making bread using grass, and how currated the few travelers experiences are. Executions and lifetime forced labor verdicts are an everyday occurrence, and there's close to no food for most people. For all you know, her mother might be executed herself if she say's one bad thing on record about NK. Motherfucker, just view a satellite image of the country at night! The only place with electricity is fucking Pyeongyang! The rest of the countries lives with torchlight FFS! How can you be so naive and ignorant that you swallow Kim Young Un's shit like this?!
What pisses me off about the Yeonmi Park situation is that tankies on social media use her lies as a way to justify what North Korea does to defectors and to its citizens. :/
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! I’m a leftist, and I’m horrified by some tankies willingness to be kushy with a dictatorship (and clearly not a dictatorship of the proletariat, which I know they will say as a defense bc they “read theory”). Just because something isn’t as bad as it could be, doesn’t mean it’s amazing or good or equal
Yeah that's why I don't take much of the criticism against her seriously. It's apparent what the motivations are by many who try to discredit everything about her.
It's pretty clear that she's lying and has gone full on American right-wing mouth job. I have known a couple of North Korean defectors. Their stories are horrific but nothing like hers. In fact THEY are highly critical of her.
I’ve been saying that Yeonmi was a liar for years. It’s crazy that she hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s because people like her story, it works perfectly in a fragile right wing persons head. Edit: people have talked super spicy over me saying that she lies.
Her mud stories towards kids has me rolling. This hideous liar wore Chanel bags and other imported stuff during her time in RNK. OF COURSE we all agree living in North Korea is absolutely terrifying and terrible, but now her lavish lifestyle is being supported by the same folks who create a terrible reality for POC.
Yup, the changing of the number of suspects and their sex, the lie about there not being prosecutions against the perpetrators. She’s a grifter, and people ate up all her lies at face value. Then they pretend they didn’t, or double down and play ignorant because “she’s on our side”
You realize it doesn’t matter what her “commercial” story is because she’s literally a defector from North Korea. You guys are making it out to seem like she’s been living in Beverly Hills her whole life. She was a literal slave to the Kim regime irregardless of how spicy her story sounds. To call out a LITERAL VICTIM for lying is gross, she’s literally a refugee. Wasn’t everyone here literally calling people racists and bigots the other day for calling that karlee story a lie? Guess it’s different because Yeonmi has conservative opinions? You guys are literal clowns. This is the epitome of group-think.
I really hope the punch in the face was real. She didn’t deserve getting robbed though. Lying about it being because of a BLM riot was gross. She insisted on referred to them only as riots. I know there were both so questionable what was she doing in a riot?
@@mesiroy1234 what’s your point? Oh well, she’s rich now? Guess that makes what she did okay. 🙄 Those companies who paid her could actually go after her for her lies and win a lawsuit getting their money back. She more or less swindled money.
Yeah, but pretty people don’t really lie, so we should believe *everything* she saids. If you disagree with her, you must be extremely jealous and a Leftist. Try hitting the gym and getting Right-Winged pilled->🦧.
@@mesiroy1234 so you think its cool to sell your soul and sell out your race for money. Cause the alt right will use her and throw her away. You have no actual power in that lane unless youre a white male, they might parade you around and say youre based but the moment they dont need you it why the fuck are you a women or a minority talking.
I think it’s insane that US military stories like that have been so common over the years but we’re so desensitized to terrorism happening in Eastern countries that we don’t look at the details like this. Thank you for covering this, Phil and team.
I wonder if that man who lost part of his arm and hand has some type of crowdfunding campaign? I don't mind pitching in to at least help fix one wrong our country has caused.
America is the terrorist of the world if everyone is honest and take the US definition and labelling of countries and people labe terrorist they would #1.
Truly I don’t under how anyone with common sense wouldn’t immediately understand she’s a lair. She’s says things that are so bombastic and outside the scope of reality it just takes a quick google search.
I mean it IS true she is an NK defector. However she was one of the rich ones over there, her life wasn't what she made it out to be. She probably wanted to make it seem like she suffered more so ppl would feel more sorry for her. Imagine if she said how rich she was over there? That wouldn't win her much sympathy.
Don't get me wrong North Korea is a terrible place, however anyone who thought she was telling the truth on even half the stuff she was saying struck me as gullible.
That’s the problem, republicans have realized that people are gullible and will act based off their emotions and while the “intellectual dark web” is telling them they are “using facts and logic.” It’s a dangerous barrel of explosives waiting for another Jan 6th
Not surprised and predicted. Esp with her interviews everywhere. I was like... something is up as she was getting coverage and my algorightm when it was something a I never looked for.
after her own mother came out and said that the majority of the claims she makes about how she grew up, were completely false, i stopped being able to understand why people believe her…. like phil said she was basically “paris hilton” in north korea, she was part of a very rich affluent family and grew up with wealth. she took the wildest stories, and ran with them.
There was this interview with a guy who was an expert on North Korea who flat out said “Be careful with defectors, while they are truly running away from tremendous hardships they commonly lie and change their stories because they need money and really want a better life. It’s only human, imagine running away from a despotic country and having to live as a vagrant in a completely different country. You would lie too”. This is why I never believed 100% what a defector said, that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve better life it just means you can’t trust everything they say about their past.
This is normal for all who got refugee status in the US and other countries as they think they need to prove it not only to the court but to authorites too, so they contineu to receve their monthly allowance which way higher than their salary back home. USSR refugees were notories with the same kind of stories. even so many of them came in 1990s when USSR was gone already and Yeltsyn et al were praised as democrats of democrats while looting their state owned resources.
Try watching the interview of the former north korea agent defector in vice asia, that guy is the real deal, watch the video where he's still thin, it's more raw and fresh, he doesn't go around shouting defector like this girl
I detect subtle racism there. You shouldn't 100% believe anyone. It has nothing to do with defect or not. Countless Born-n-Raised American also embellish on a DAILY basis.
Came for North Korea defector scandal allegations, stayed for US covering up modern wars crimes happening in my lifetime. Great cover today guys! I definitely got Phill’d in nicely
I used to follow Yeonmi... I slowly started no to trust her after she made a lot of the same similar content, and then changed information to contradict what she said in a previous video... but to find out mostly everything was a lie is truly heartbreaking
Same. I remember the video that made me unsubscribe from her channel was she came out as very pro the 2nd amendment. It was the way she talked about it that made me side eye it and I just couldn't go back to watching her videos the same way. She had definitely started sprinkling her right wings videos thought her videos and I'm upset I got caught up and believed her.
I'm not that crazy about her enough to follow her channel. If you don't talk about your story, you will never get credit for it. Bad things happen to people and they don't talk about it, in fact it could make you look embarrassing. In fact, whatever bad that happens to you makes you a victim or irresponsible of your situation especially in a military environment. If you don't call the police, you're not going to get justice or anything for that matter. If you don't say something, you're going to be ignored. I hope her story is true, especially the Christian missionaries helping people escape. I mean JBP is very interested in her story and that's why I take her seriously it's because so famous and convincing.
@@arisu229 Hoping her story is true because she's famous is a horrible reason to believe her. I don't control you, believe whatever you like, but I hope you can see how that's nonsensical
It’s really impressive that you are covering this bombing story. I can’t imagine it’s a big click generator so I respect your conviction in bringing us important stories instead of just tabloid clickbait. I wasn’t aware of any of the stories you brought us today. Thanks, Phil.
I read a book called "See You Again in Pyongyang," and in it, the author explained that most of the most famous north korean defectors take the most extreme abuses they hear from other women and combine them all into one story. So generally, one person might've experienced a portion of something similar to what happened, but never all of the things.
It doesn't matter if she lied about her own experience or if she lied about how bad it is there. She's talking about others's lives since she has a voice. Everyone online or offline lies. Life in NK is horrific- that's a fact. It doesn't matter if she/someone she knew only had to eat a rat once or daily. IT'S STILL INHUMANE AND HORRIFIC.
It matters A LOT! Yeah, it may be bad over there, but she is speaking from a fraudulent point of view and fools like you keep feeding her ego and pockets because you dont want to see that she is full of crap!
I was enthralled by Yeonmi's TH-cam channel years ago as I found her videos fantastically entertaining. She told stories so well and seemed to have an instinct for how to get to salient and interesting details in a tale and keep her videos well paced and compelling. That being said, I also narrowed my eyes at her very early on, and my gut instinct quietly said, 'something's not right with this woman.' I still don't know what to make of her and would be furious to learn of how much emotional connection and intellectual investment on my part was absolutely worthless due to her being a fraud to some degree. What a waste of time and furthermore, she'd be the one responsible for putting entirely false information into my noggin whilst portraying herself as someone-- and indeed someTHING-- that she's not. It's a horrible thing, to convince people that you're deserving of great respect and a source of first-hand cultural information when you're lying or embellishing shamelessly. I'll keep my wits about me and see what the future holds with regards to Park.
@@clicheguevara5282 Oh HAHAHA! I caught that awful double meaning as I was typing it but left it in because she's just another human and I'd use that turn of phrase for everybody with no ugly pejorative meaning intended whatsoever. I have to tell you though, I draw the line at saying someone looks like a monkey when they're from a certain part of the globe. The world is all so twisted up and people thinking my observation was racist says everything about them and nothing about me. Some people DO look like monkeys-- a bit like how some people look like foxes, teddy bears, mice, pigs, turtles and chickens. Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle, let's have some real talk here. 😉🤷♀😆
The fact that you watched her videos because you found them “entertaining” says a lot about you. It only takes some critical thinking skills and reading a book or two to understand the lies you fed about North Korea (or the DPRK by its official name). Idk what that paragraph is about.
As a veteran I sadly can say that I'm not at all surprised. In 2019 we were woken up to "incoming", (RPGs, mortars, etc...) I stepped out of my tent to see the neighboring one on fire. After the dust settled we were informed of injuries, 3 injured, 1 severe through out his legs and the other 2 were minor injuries (1 of the 2 got a free ear piercing). Taliban hurt, I repeat HURT 3 of our guys, we woke up the day after to Warthogs, Apache's and mortars. We never found out the "tole" but I can very confidentially say it was SIGNIFICANTLY worse than 3 personnel and if I was a betting man the same would probably apply for deaths
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144We are actually really good at war. And secondly that's just how the US works, we deal in "proportional" offense. You sink 6 boats, we drop 2 nukes
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144that cause the civilians don’t want y’all there. You are seen as the invaders. US makes the case worse, they could have figured it out on their own with less people dying and economic disadvantages.
We're talking about a raid being conducted by special forces. Guys who literally train all day everyday and are the elite of the elite. If some idiot drives a van into an active raid and they shoot at him no duh the military is going to have the backs of their operators over some dumb dumb who kept driving despite warning shots.
@@bestieswithtestiesdid you even watch the video? It would have been almost impossible for him to react or know where the gunshots were coming from. Shut up.
@@bestieswithtestiesseems like the report disagrees with your assessment. Let me ask you why you assume that because they’re the elite of the elite that they would never do anything wrong or the military trying have it covered up afterwards? You can’t be so naïve to believe this could not have happened?
Now imagine how the family members, friends, and fellow citizens of the countries bombed (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, etc.) feel about it? They've been telling y'all the truth for decades about the disgusting atrocities the American military is actually commiting right now as we speak only to turn around and hear themselves called the "terrorists" across all major American media publications. Then y'all wonder how people could possibly decide to join Al Qaeda, ISIS, Syrian Military, Iranian Military, Russia's side of the Ukrainian War, etc. and commit what you call "random unprovoked" attacks. Smdh. Y'all treat this like it's a movie when the people on the ground actually experiencing it have to suffer just for your entertainment. To them, y'all are literally comparable to the Capital in the Hunger Games which is ironic considering how popular of a series it is in America.
I’m gutted to hear that Yeonmi Park might be telling fake stories. I’ve been a fan ever since I saw her on Joe Rogan. Assuming the allegations are true, it’s such a shame she felt the need to represent herself and North Korea as something different than the truth smh
This happens all the time. I've noted this with Africans that move to the US. They always find it necessary to exaggerate things like poverty and slums issue.
Rogan…. Jesus wept. That should have been your wake-up call. He’s down with ANY right wing rhetoric and champions outright lies and conspiracy theories that back up his conservative worldview - he does no vetting whatsoever.
People have been calling her out for nearly 10 years especially the koreans. They noted how she said she was eating grain of rice for 10 years, then eat dirt for 10 years, then eat tree barks for 10 years and she's only 20 years old at that time. She couldn't even get her stories straight.
@@antonymwangi4986lol an Asian woman gets exposed for lying so you bring Africans in this LOOL. If you think people fleeing Africa are lying you are delusional and coping hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ever since I learned about how much money goes into scheduling, booking and planning these kinds of podcast or interview appearances I realized that there’s no way for anyone to give a shit about integrity in that industry.
It’s sad to know that the most well known Korean defector with a legendary story (I saw her first with the viral summit video) wasn’t telling the whole truth about it and is now the defacto representative of people who have had to suffer through so much. I watched you TH-cam a few times a few years back for her stories on what N Korea was like and while she was right wing in her opinions, I felt like I couldn’t blame her. If she’d suffered so much under a communist regime, I could see why she’d go to the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s genuinely sad to find this out about her. She’s going beyond right wing and starting into alt right opinions.
It's insane how people don't realize that trying to be martyr for their situation where they DID have unfortunate situations...but then they exaggerate or lie for profit ruins the collective effort. Just like how the ONE time a black woman kidnapping makes national news, it's found to be a grand lie. Now, one of the most prominent North Korean defectors is found to be lying AND influencing right wing movements that she herself may not realize all the issues that come with it is also found lying. That all said, my sympathy can go out to some of these folks. Yes, they were trying to make a profit or cover up a situation or maybe try to bring to light unfortunate cases of discrimination, etc...but one thing that is often missed. It's VERY, VERY hard to realize when your one voice becomes the influential voice for hundreds or thousands. When a random person becomes national news all of a sudden (for example, I never heard of Park until today), that viral moment comes so quickly that it's tough for me to sit here and "yeah she shouldn't have done that". Because, I think it IS difficult to determine when ones comments become the comments of many.
My thoughts and experiences exactly! She started going alt right/conservative REAL hard after she was featured on Joe’s podcast and as soon as she started using the term “woke” I stopped following her immediately. After she had another boom in popularity from his podcast her stories and political views started getting much more ridiculous which I suspected was to pander to his many conservative/alt right viewers who followed her after the show. Oh and I remember one time she posted a reel of her dancing on Instagram and it got taken down because of copyrighted music and she claimed China was trying to “censor” her 🤦♀️
I spent some time watching a number of her videos because I like listening to other survivors. Being a survivor of human trafficking and having been homeless on and off throughout my youth to escape my abusers, I noticed occasionally Yeonmi would drop little sentences here or there that felt borderline shameful. One was something along the lines of "I come here and there are all these homeless here who seem so sad but you have it so EASY." Meanwhile so many of my loved ones, some of the kindest and strongest people in the world, have died from the elements, or at the hands of abusers, or su*cide. She also seriously confuses socialism with dictatorship a lot. Whether you like the idea of socialism or not, I could call myself a doctor but that doesn't make it true. It just felt as I watched that she really didn't have much compassion for the survivors and struggles that are in countries elsewhere. No matter what, you had it easy if you live in North America. That was just my perspective, though.
I hope you are doing ok. I can't even imagine what it was like for you having gone through something like human trafficking, abuse, homelessness, etc... You're definitely a fighter as well as a survivor. Tough as nails. Much respect to and for you 🙏😊
@@chase-warwick. Nobody said it was capitalist you’re imagining things nobody said. It’s probably because you’re a capitalist. And they tend to do that a lot. Capitalism gives people more schizophrenia than other systems. And the voices are meaner. If you go to Third World countries schizophrenics don’t have mean voices in their head but in Hours they do. That’s because our society is dedicated to money and money is inherently evil.
I mean I live in a state with the most homeless people (CA) they pay people to be homeless and now they are kind being allowed to live on the highways. Highway 99 south is a popular one.
@@chase-warwick It's not socialist either because there are no armed worker unions/syndicates which Marx stresses are essential for socialism to exist. Also hereditary rule is completely anathema to socialist thought, as is unpaid/forced labor. NK is, first and foremost, a fascist state with a red star drawn in crayon over it, and it's a shithole like every fascist state ever...
@@thekamotodragonhe’s right NPR is great. Just because they don’t agree with whatever fantasy world you live in doesn’t mean they don’t have journalistic integrity.
@@Baelor-Breakspear Do you know what journalistic integrity means man? It means presenting stories, for journalism, in a way that's unbiased, and truthful to their findings. A good example would be a journalist who gets assigned a story, goes out to where their story is, writes down simply what they see, and then reports on those findings honestly, someone without an agenda, whose only goal is to get the truth about a story and then give the people that truth, THAT'S real journalistic integrity. Idk if you've noticed, but unfortunately almost NO news organization in America fits that description anymore, including NPR. They're obviously biased towards one political side and it's extremely thinly-veiled. Promoting progressive causes 24/7 is not real journalism and I'm saying that as someone who isn't even on the right.
@@thekamotodragon I’m sorry but you’re wrong. Stories should have bias towards the truth and it’s not NPR’s fault that the truth and data usually lines up with the left end of the political spectrum. Science, data and evidence generally have a left wing bias so would it be wrong to report the story this way? No bias towards the truth is a good thing and don’t hate on news agencies because the truth leans left. Facts generally have a left wing bias.
I remember listening to her on a podcast about two years ago and thinking to myself a lot of her stories simply did not make any sense, I'm glad people are pointing out her fraud now.
I dont know what Yeonmi Park has gone through, but it is certainly different than Hyunseo Lee, who actually never sought publicity for the sake of it. She told her story and started living. Yeonmi has gone to seek publicity from her ordeal with an ever changing story.
Are you okay? Like, are your brain cells functioning properly? Not all survivors are the same and the way you spread AWARENESS is to share your story. What she did was BRAVE. What oppressive, third world country have you escaped from? Please tell us how she should have behaved. And no, her words have been cherry picked and manipulated to look exaggerated or untrue. It is so gross.
I saw one interview with Park. Honestly everything she said was just RED FLAG, her story keeps changing and the fact that she compared going to University to living in North Korea, what the actual F? This woman is just straight up crazy.
I assumed that the reading she gravitated towards MAGA thinking was because it’s what she grew up with. North Korea conditions citizens not to think, to just accept propaganda as fact. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I went to university in America as well. The similarities are there. Left wing extremism, compelled speech, separating people by race and class and delivering patronage to those who are approved, censorship, and the climate of fear. Yeonmi is on to something, and the left hates that she's speaking truth to power.
@@sallyostlingshe was also the 1% in NK, her relatives confirmed it. She prob had a stifled life but she had immense riches and did not go without food. She didn't suffer in the same way the average poor NK person did. But she still did suffer.
Read her books and you will see more. She complained about Columbia Univ. because it was so woke and she realized that they are preaching things that are lies and nonsense. People that come from countries like NK instantly recognize these bad things because they had to live with them. I know several people that have immigrated here from places like that and they all say the same thing. America is in danger from this woke mind virus and worse. They are teaching this trash in places like Columbia U. to young people that are sponges for this nonsense.
I can’t stand YeonMi Park but what we need is for somebody to REALLY challenge her on her BS. I saw her interview on Flagrant 2 (no idea why she was on a comedic pod lol) but they just lapped up everything she was saying no matter how insanely unrealistic her claims were…the same thing happened on JRE it was just embarrassing. She needs to be challenged by somebody who is more on the center-right.
@@Johann-uc9snno hard evidence? Like when she said you aren't allowed to learn mathematics in north Korea yet a north Korean scholar literally showed a picture of a mathematics worksheet for kids? This is literally in the video
I bought Yeonmi Park's first book and it breaks my heart she's turned out like this. It seems like she feels ashamed over her economic status, like her suffering wasn't enough compared to other defectors so she just started lying and let the lies spin out of control. Dissapointing.😞
I kind of could understand why she did it, she's one of the most privileged north korean and even then her education level is probably low, hence she's not a desirable to hire by normal jobs. She escaped and then had to become a clown to survive, maybe she start off honest, but as time goes on she realised there's only so much things she can tell since she herself didn't get such treatment. One of the telltale is that her story never ends. There's only so much horrific things you can experience and tell it so perfectly without emotion, especially if those stories involve real people. She just keep making new stories at some point i wonder how many years she can keep this up. I long stopped watched her years before. Used to defend her when people said she's lying..
hmmm, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense. It's like survivors guilt...who knows and I don't know enough about it to speculate anymore, feels wrong.
Yeah. The truth is, a lot of the defectors come from wealthier backgrounds because they simply have the means and tools to escape. It shouldn't be a point of shame. You should just acknowledge it and try to use that power for good.
Thank you for taking time to talk about the Pentagon files, it is really great to see some people care about these things even though those who did commit a crimes will not face consequences .
I came across yeonmi a few years ago, and thought her stories were interesting, but then some of the things she said rubbed me wrong. and at the time I didn't want to doubt her and the struggles of North Korea, but she was pushing some weird narrative during covid and I wasn't sure if maybe she just didn't understand some of the nuances because of where she was from.. but I did stop watching her then. So I guess this story coming up now doesn't surprise me, but rather explains why I was uncomfortable with her then.
Maybe she meant to say "extradited", because the rest of her sentence she said was "You could be executed with 3 generations of your family to prison." She may have just misspoken. Extradited makes more sense in that sentemce than executed.
Then why haven’t she corrected that mistake then after hearing people question it? She absolutely know what execute means, she have used it at other times. If she misspoke she would have corrected herself since she knows the meaning of the word she accidentally said. She didn’t do that so clearly she meant to say executed.
Lets just be real about this, if she wasn't good looking, no one would care about her defection story, and you don't get that good looking being malnourished it just doesn't happen. I had my reservations about her story, i'm sure there is truth sprinkled in it here and there, but ultimately you gotta follow the money, and the motivations behind getting it.
Part of me thought that she must've been from South Korea because of her looks and thought that she was pretending to be North Korean in order to trick others. The other part thought that if she was North Korean, then she had to have been part of the elite, and the only reason they "escaped" was because her family must've pissed off Kim and knew that they would lose everything.
Just want to point out that her multiple plastic surgeries occurred AFTER she defected and became famous. People DID care about her story and IMO, she was prettier back then.
Most of the South Koreans I know already knew she was bullshitting her stories. That’s why she even left South Korea because the shows were putting her discrepancies on blast. However, the western countries put her on a pedestal and gave her the fame and wealth. So she just kept milking it. Not surprised 🤷♂️. Surprised it took this long for people to realize it here.
I instantly discounted Park’s words when she went on a anti woke thing, if you’re worth taking seriously, you can be more specific. Using the word Woke just shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Especially since North Korea isn’t the result of “wokeness”, it’s reactionary totalitarianism. Completely opposed ideals.
They’re comparing wokeness to reactionary totalitarianism in their extremity. Instead of a line, the line of left to right is more like a circle according to some. The centre is at the bottom, and as you get extreme, you get closer to the top. Which is stupid, but yeah.
I've always found "anti-woke" people hilarious because being "woke" just means being aware of societal issues and institutional prejudice...so they're essentially bragging about being ignorant.
The thing with people like her (grifters) is that they will be pro-something until that no longer makes them money or fame. Then they will be anti-something to try to get back into the game. Ultimately, they couldn't care less what they say or do as long as they are famous or at the very least infamous.
About two years ago Yeonmi got exposed for lying about a lot of things, spreading misinformation, etc. I find it really interesting with her stories, because when I watched an interview of her, she said that she escaped being a pleasure woman from Kim jong un.
That’s fascinating, the version I heard had her escape through her mother and her becoming sex workers in China and the two of them earned enough money to escape from there, Kim having no involvement. I’m sure there are other variations as well out there
@@popartpistol Oh wow! No! She said that? In the version I heard, she was a prostitute for wealthy Chinese businessmen who knew they were defectors so they knew she would comply to whatever they wanted
She was 13 when she left the country, right? 13 year olds are not typically known for insightful and nuanced social commentary. Her memories are memories of a kid with all the issues that come with that, the fact it all happened 15 years ago+ being just the top of the iceberg.
I've always thought that Yeonmi lady is a political plant. I don't believe anything that comes out of her mouth since i first caught onto her stories not adding up.
I've always suspected some of her claims were a bit exaggerated but it also sounds like the claims that she is flat out lying are also exaggerated. Regardless of what side you're on this is all just hear-say. People are really blowing this way out of proportion. I'm usually a little skeptical of survivor stories but the only way we will know for sure is when NK finally opens it's borders.
I'm continuously confused how cancel culture is labeled only a liberla thing. Conservatives have ABSOLUTLEY done that and are doing that now mainly with the love hate they feel on trump
I do believe there is an incentive for Yeonmy to make up things and lie, but the way she lies goes beyond recognition and usefulness. I believe that she might be seeking attention in a psychological way, i think she might be a pathological liar. Pathological liars change and make up thing to a point that stops being useful for what they are telling it, and you can see that in her stories.
Yep, I've had experiences with a compulsive liar and that's is the impression I'm gettin. It's genuinely almost impossible to rely on anything she's saying at all.
Also the money. She knows we the public have N.Korea as this awful country, and we don't know as much as we want to know. So she has a perfect opportunity to exaggerated while pandering to a poltical party, which earns her more money.
Maybe she was conditioned in N Korea to tell people whatever they wanted to hear, just to survive. And she never broke that habit. Idk. Maybe I am a bit sympathetic to her because of the giant bazookas.
@@sangbeom6245yea when I heard they are not together I was like "whaaaaaaaaaaa????" Isn't she supposed to be super humble nearly starved to death. Now I'm hearing divorcee and seeing implants? Lol omg she deserves what's coming her way
0:06 finally you are talking about her, I've been wondering for months if we would ever see her on your show.I use to follow Yeonmi Park, I did for years, but things started to get really weird with her speech with each new video. I do think North Korea is a terrible place to be born in, and we should care more about authoritarian and totalitarian countries, I don't know how we, the rest of the world, let them be, but when It comes to North Korea I just follow other defectors, keep with the documentaries, etc. (edit) The second story is absolutely disgusting and devastating.
North Korea is a blessing for alt right propagandists. Refugees? Nope, their situation isn't as bad as North Korea so they don't need help. Want free healthcare? Move to North Korea then. It's maddening.
Phil thank you so much man I can say that most Americans will never hear of things like this I myself thought I was decently read on the situation in the Middle East, knowing that we have killed many civilians but when the actual details are shown like this video it makes me disgusted to know that the military is just treating these people like insects having absolutely zero care in the world when or how they kill them. I can't imagine what that man is going through and honestly its no wonder why these people hate us in the USA. If they would do even a fraction of the things we have done to them our government probably would have dropped the A bomb on them and went ahead like nothing happened. I hope that man finds some sort of justice and or peace but sadly I know he never will.
I used to follow Yeonmi, even bought her book. I was a “fan” up until around 2019/2020, that’s when I started to notice that she had gotten got by the far right. I felt bad for her, going from one regime to another (obviously can’t conflate the two but still, it’s brainwashing). But it’s sad to say I don’t feel as bad for her anymore because what she’s doing now isn’t out of her control anymore, she has made a conscious CHOICE to be a pick-me for the far right. I can’t feel bad for anyone who chooses to become a grifter. I notice that other defectors seem appalled by her and don’t involve themselves with her anymore and I think that’s for the best. I truly hope she finds peace though, it must be exhausting to live a lie and have to be around people who truly don’t care about you as a person and only care if you’re on the same side they are. Love & light ✌️
I actually ate dog food when I was a child because I was hungry. Not because we were poor, I was just always hungry and anytime we visited people who had a dog, I was curious what kind of food that dog had to eat. Regardless, I was always very hungry with a super charged metabolism because of hyperthyroidism. Just didn’t know it at the time. We did live in a car for a week after my parents lost their business, even then I never felt poor. My partners are honest hard workers and smart, these attributes, coupled with a normal government, anyone can make money.
I recommend everyone here watches: loyal citizens of pyongyang in seoul. The sound doesn’t quite line up but if you can get past that and just read the subtitles, it’s an incredible documentary on what it’s actually like to be a North Korean defector. In the video 2 North Koreans talk about what their home land is like vs the places they were forced (allegedly…bnr) to live in. They are unpaid and from what I could tell were genuine in their experience. The video also contains proof of their claims.
2:20 I'm glad more of this information is coming to light because there are an entire country of people who are starving and on the brink of death facing an incredibly harsh life and she's launched massive book sales and isn't using what she went through to help others get to safety but instead goes to release another book and some of the things she said just seemed so wild at the time it just didn't seem to make any sense but people believed her and tried to be sympathetic.
Her stories are actually mild compared to other survivors. speaking of, many survivors lived trough starvation and saw a plethora of executions for the smallest stuff, YEARS before she escaped in 09. You're gobbeling up Kim Young Un's bullshit and should stop before you long after dictatorship, executions, starvations, poverty and generational forced laborcamp are both confirmed by video, and they're a daily affaire in NK. They don't even have electricity outside Pyeongyang, let alone food and clean water.
we have Nina Špitálníková here in Czech Republic and she STUDIED in North Korea, she has been there two times, she has written books about interviews with refugees and when we went to see her, someone asked if she thinks Yeonmi is lying and she confirmed she lied on many occasions
I'm from asia and I've seen a lot of north korean survivor stories from online or from tedtalks etc years back, and this yeonmi girl has from time to time popped up on my youtube shorts and her stories and the way she talks are pretty much the way republicans talk or how she tells her story are exactly how I see republican related youtube accounts go in youtube, and I can compare this pretty much cause I watch a lot of international news and it doesn't really matter to me how this left and right of america matters to me here in asia but it's a little bit suspicious though because all of the other videos and interviews I've seen of defectors from north korea doesn't have this clean cut way of telling stories where sometimes race immediately the topic of the story or some random rightist point of view that only republicans (as I've seen on news) give out and it's even so specific that it makes it look fake
It disturbes me that the majority of comments are about Yeonmi Park and political positions rather than the US military covering up innocents dying at their hands.
Agreed… We should look into it more. Maybe get some justice for people Obama blew up with his drone strikes in countries we weren’t even at war with for example?
I saw her interview on Joe Rogan and I didn’t buy it, I watched other interviews and the same thing. I questioned myself for doubting her story and I judged myself harshly for it. I’m happy to see that this is coming out, I was on to something. Not to say that she didn’t go through something but that story she makes it just plays into the lapping dogs that is the media.
When she started using the word "woke" and comparing US liberals to NK I instantly knew she was full of shit. Hunger also hasn't been a thing for NK for a while now because a huge chunk(around half I think) of China's foreign aid it gives to NK. China has a vested interest in keeping NK stable as it's a good barrier to any US invasion as SK is a US ally. She hasn't been to NK in over 20 years and in that time we saw China becoming trade partners with the US during Clinton's presidency and becoming a world economic powerhouse. NK probably has gone from a complete shithole to mostly a shithole.
Lying for dollars seems to be a common career choice in America, now.
always has been
There are 3 constants: Death, Taxes and Grifting
I mean when conservatives prove themselves time and time again to be really dumb and love to throw money at people it's not surprising at all that so many people jump on the wagon.
There’s a reason why Canadians always dunk on americans. We’re better than them, in every way
And yet Phil still props up "Bro Tips" Hasan
I've heard she was a grifter for a long time. After hearing her talk about "woke" stuff I immediately agreed. Seems to be what a bunch of politcal grifters are doing nowadays so it's barely suprising to me rn.
The second she said a liberal colleges with blue hairs was worse than NK I knew she was bullshitting
The first warning sign for me was when she began talking about "cancel culture" with a right-wing lens. I then immediately noped out when she started to go on Candace Owens's show.
If she probably talked about Transgender yall would've been fine, and the conservative would be mad at her XD. Both sides are so stupid. XD
@@erenjaeger1738what’re you talking about lmao
@@erenjaeger1738 BoTh sIDeS
I watched an hour and a half TH-cam video that ripped apart her discrepancies and just lies. I used to watch her videos because information about North Korea is so scarce but quickly just by her editing and videos you could tell she exaggerated and catered to the general white republican man. It’s so depressing when people spread misinformation because we have to undo it all and present actual information and fact.
“I was beat by 3 black women”
“I was beat by a man and woman”
No reason her story should change so much. First there’s two people from two sexes. Then there’s three people from one sex.
I’ve been a victim of crime, but even if I don’t remember the number of guys who’ve jumped me, I wouldn’t pretend like I know the exact number or sex of the perpetrators, especially if I’m being interviewed on it.
Then the lie about not prosecuting is just a blatant lie.
It’s sad, because Rogan just spread those lies and never verified or tried to verify the claims.
This is part of the reason i don’t listen to podcasters who have random guests, and no real standard to fact check the things their guests say, which does impact the views and opinions of listeners.
Same here. I was disappointed and unfollowed her after just a few videos - well before the book. Disgusting.
It's just the usual annoying angry liberals, nothing new
@@toonzonly-7955she's a right wing grifter, being a lying slag is just part of the job.
I don't understand why she got popular in the first place considering she looked like your average clout chaser pretend white woman.
Yeonmi Parks story sounded heartbreaking the first hour I heard her talking, then pretty quickly it became obvious she overexaggerates and lies a lot. She has pretty much survived 300 years of torture according to herself. She talks about all these things like only eating 1 grain of rice for 10 years, then eating rats for 10 years and then dirt for 10 years before coming to America, but she was 20 years old.
😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
Yea people defending her obviously never listened to her before.
SHE IS CORRECT. The problem is, that you do not believe her, because you have never been in North Korea. I my younger days I had contacts with a North Korean Friendship Organization, so I can CONFIRM her claims. It was (and is) exactly as bad as she claims. You are an ignorant fool!
In N Korea, 7x7 is 77! Then I knew she was lying.
13 when she left, wasn’t she? Although didn’t she also say she saw a smuggled vhs of titanic when 20 which was the first time she realised that the government lied and that you could love people other than the leader which is crazy as I’m sure she loved her family previously and knew it.
Yeomni Park has been exposed so many times before. I’m glad more people are starting to catch on. She has built a successful brand on lying about a country where people actually suffer. Not only is it bad because she spreads misinformation, but it also raises suspicion towards innocent people who sharing their real stories about their suffering in North Korea.
Yeah, but even still, people will either believe her or think she's a liar, regardless of how many times she's "exposed".
I mean, look at Joe Biden, he's been exposed as a liar many, many times, yet most people on the left ignore that and continue to believe him.
Damn i really believed her
@@paolo3794 same here
"exposed" don't you mean character assassinated because she doesn't subscribe the NPC leftwing narrative?
@@snoopysnoops007 her own mom said she was over exaggerating
Yeonmi Park once said, "In North Korea, Rats eat the babies, then babies eat those rats." I think that's enough said to discredit how insane her claims are.
she also said plants become poisonous once a year
@@cpu_1292seriously?
@@dboone7670please don't be serious. That is a concerning level of "how the what the" that I don't have time to process😨
And where's the same energy for the Amerikkkan politicians that likewise lie and spew provably false nonsense? Seems we're real good on the internet at getting random people cancelled for dumb shit, but the politicians and investor thieves seem to have no repurcussions ever🤔
@@cpu_1292I think this one may have been a translation issue actually. A lot of wild plants are only edible when they first emerge in the spring, and then as they mature they start building up bitter compounds and getting tougher to the point when they can't really be eaten. It's especially true with greens.
She's definitely not the most credible person though so I may be giving her too much credit here.
I remember John Oliver doing a segment on North Korea, and pointing out how because the country is so secretive with how it carries out its authoritarian rule, it's incredibly easy for people in Western countries to believe overly exaggerated claims about the country.
Kim executed senior staff from the previous administration publicly with a flak gun, like it was the freaking middle ages. It's a medieval, feudal kingdom. I think we characterize it pretty accurately.
OK?
Of course Oliver wants to downplay the atrocities in North Korea, he doesn't want the similarities made with the left. Same reason why the left is attacking the sound of freedom, a movie about stopping child trafficking. The left is an abhorrent group.
Except they really do like accordions.
That is true for north korean too. She left when she was a child. She is repeating stories that was told to her to keep the people in line, it's not a journalistic report.
The more I listened to her I just thought it was bizarre that she was so openly talking about all these horrific events that happened to her. It seem like every time I opened up TH-cam she was on a podcast talking about more horrible events. That’s when I started thinking that she might be full of sh*t. It amazes me what people will do for attention. Not to mention there’s so many ways to fact check people nowadays that it seems absolutely ridiculous to go on the Internet and lie over and over and over again.
Same for me, she was all over my feed at first and I thought it seemed a little too open for someone claiming to be risking their life for sharing that ‘info’ publicly. Usually when these people come out sharing their experiences you don’t even see their faces.
OF fans with her doing it with an actor dressed as Kim
Even the other NorKor defectors find her sus and not friends with her also she stole some defector’s stories
What the us military does in other countries is absolutely despicable....
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nooo you can’t mention that !! north korea is bad, remember? america would neeevverrr have prison camps or let civilians be murdered in the streets, by the hand of the government 😱 north korea all bad, merica all good !
Every power acts that way during war. Not saying it's ok or right, just saying that it isn't just the US. Anti US people love ignoring the terrible shit their own country does or have done. It's human nature after all.
Ask that question every time you have bananas and pineapples (google banana wars and Dole Hawaii Queen)
war fucking blows, who knew?
Her lying infuriates me. I had two North Korean students in my classes when I was teaching in South Korea. Due to their experiences there and how those experiences affected their development, both were behind by about a year or two. It broke my heart because they were some of my best students- they always tried their best and were always kind to their classmates, teachers, and school staff. Those kids struggled. That lady clearly didn't. She could be doing so much good right now, but is choosing not to because she's money hungry.
People getting executed for smuggling western products and going to forced labor camps for the smallest thing is true though.. What is she lying about? From what I've heard of her, her stories align with every other survivor I've seen along with all the videos and inside footage documentaries I've seen from there. You start your statement with "she's lying" then you confirm her horrible accounts with your NK-students? The shit she's seen and remember is far worse than you'd think, and the mother might be killed if she says anything negative about NK. I'm 100% sure this is a payed ploy by North Korea to discredit her and call her accounts for "western propaganda" because she's more popularly known than the other survivors. Also, there are video footage of people making bread out of roadside grass and weeds, and there are other survivors whom claimed the same shit long before Yeonmi escaped in 2009.
Male students
@@edwardmartin3549 ?
@@edwardmartin3549 Pardon? Where did you get male students in there? I'm a bit confused. I can only see one comment, but it shows there are 3- this may mean that I'm missing context. If I'm missing context, would someone please put it below? If not, please read on:
For their privacy, I won't reveal the gender/sex of either student, but, even then, this wouldn't matter, and I don't know why anyone but them would need to know this information anyway. These are their lives and they know who they are and how they feel about themselves. We have no right to dictate another person's life just because it's different from how we live ours. I find it incredibly strange how people are so defensive about transgender issues when it literally has no affect on you as a person whatsoever. It's the same argument I give with those who have issues with the LGBTQIA+ community and a quote I came up with when discussing this at one time:
"It ain't your body; it ain't your bedroom; it ain't your business."
To me, too many people have too little going on in their own lives that they have to stick their noses into the lives of people they don't even know who are just trying to live their lives in the truest way they can. Even if you did know the person, I still refer to the quote above.
I must say, though, what a miserable way to live- going around and telling people what they should be according to you, when you yourself will never be the perfection you have in your own mind. It all boils down to insecurity in one's self, otherwise, people would know it won't affect them and just let others be.
The sad truth is that path where your insecurity dictates every part of your life and you are forcing what you believe are fixes for your own insecurities on others leads to fear, isolation, paranoia, and can go as far as to suicide when you've backed yourself into a corner with it far enough. Hate doesn't just hurt the one being hated, and those who hate can't seem to understand this. Hate is a choice. Why choose it when there are so many more negatives as opposed to choosing love?
I truly hope you look for help. Look for peace. Let others live as they know is best for them and focus on you- in doing so, you may find that there are some wonderful trans people out there with tons in common with you that just want to be your friend and nothing more.
How do you know her story isn't true? And just discrediting her opinion that the politics in America are leading towards authoritarian?
Surprise, surprise. Another conservative grifter turns out to actually be a conservative grifter.
She considers her self "woke" and her self proclaimed politics align more with modern day progressives and / or democrats.
In other news Trump is still saying he won the election. Conservatives are also still saying every illness a celebrity gets was caused by the vaccine. Oh and the Trans want your kids.
Whoa deep comment bro
@@ronswanson1410This didn’t require any depth.
eh democratic people are able do this because after the word its literally just a person meaning regardless of their politic leaning, if the person is a piece of garbage like this women then they are willing to do that.
Yeonmi is just learning that the internet is forever.
I’m surprised how long it took people to catch on to what a liar she is. A lot of defectors lie, but her stories are just outlandish and they keep changing too just like her face.
She already made her money. She won.
I feel really cheated. Yeonmi's book had a grave emotional reaction from me, and I shared the book with so many friends because it impacted me so much. I've kept it with me for years because I wanted a reminder of the atrocities that go on in North Korea. Knowing that it's full of lies and half-truths, written by a liar, I guess I have kindling for my next bonfire now.
I mean if you listened critically to what she said and the claims of what she was making, it's kinda obvious she's full of it. I think people like trauma p O rn of it all. When she started discussing race issues in a ridiculous way I just stopped listening to her.
No offense but you would be better off carrying a book around that talks about the atrocities committed by your own country. It's senseless to demonize and/or fear a country on the other side of the world when ours are so monstrous. I'd recommend Michael parenti's black shirts and reds and I've heard settlers is a good book as well but have never personally read it
Looking back it’s obvious she’s been lying for years now, but America has such a distorted view on NK that her lies seem believable through lack of evidence.
How is there a program to send USB’s with western shows and movies to the North Koreans if they’re starving and eating rats wearing rags and living in huts? What are they gonna plug those USB’s into?
@@canadiansmartiesyou know you can criticize other countries, while still holding your own up to a standard? Whomever is talked about changes on the conversation, Philly D and by extension his fan base primarily criticize the US for its issues because it’s literally close at home for them. Occasionally talking about other countries doesn’t diminish that, especially if those other countries are active in the wider cultural zeitgeist.
What you are doing is classic “whataboutism”, grow up
@@frankwest5388 I'm replying to the guy who carries around a copy of yeonmi parks book. In my opinion that energy would be better used to inform people of our own countries atrocities. It's silly to waste your time running around telling people that North Korea is bad because that is already the popular opinion. I think the people who do this are well meaning however they aren't making any meaningful change. It's an easy way for people to feel like they are doing good while challenging the system you live within is much more difficult and often isn't very rewarding as others don't accept it as easily as pointing fingers at others.
We put HOW much into our military?! They have enough to make sure this man and those families are taken care of the rest of their lives. This is disgusting. Why don’t human lives matter?
The military is there to defend oil and US corporate interests.
Life never mattered. Crack open a history book and see for yourself.
The military budget DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. Let me repeat: THE MILITARY BUDGET DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. There is a distinct, separate budget category for money appropriated to Veteran's Affairs. This is why I'm always angry when the reich wing tries to push for more military funding "tO tAKe cArE oF tEh vEtERaNs."
Rich people put money into the military so they can extract resources from other countries to make more money. Human lives never enter into it (edit: they only seem to exit it, come to think about it)
The American economy has been entirely dependent on slaughtering nations' worth of people since World War 2. Without continuing to do actions that have bordered on outright genocide multiple times over the decades the entire country's economy would collapse. The only thing that can change it would be a president committing to completely destroying the military industrial complex and building something new to replace it, but that will require millions of Americans to lose their jobs and find new ones.
I'm sorry what? Being free and being able to do what you want is the same as North Korea?
Nah she found out that one of the easiest ways to make money in the US right now is to be a right wing grifter.
Left-wong grifters are just as profitable. She just picked a side you didn't like.
@@badwolf3618ok believe what you want, no one cares
@@badwolf3618why are you so mad 😂
@@badwolf3618it is profitable but not as much as the right-wing grifters who have a larger amount of wealthy industries with shitty practices willing to toss money at them. Like the gun industry, and oil among others. That's why there are a lot more right wing grifters than there are left.
@@sybill123ful you are assuming I am mad because I corrected the original commenter. I am not mad. You just wanna assume I am so that you don't have to engage with my argument.
I'M SO GLAD PEOPLE ARE BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS ********. I used to watch her stuff, and then I saw one video where she said, "In the spring, we can't even find a rat to eat." She had the same exact tone as the compulsive liars I've met.
Wow
Thank you, I was trying to figure out what it was about her that sent off alarm bells. Her tone. I just recently saw a video of her and I believed it, but... Something didn't sit right with me so I went hunting and found this and so much more.
I first heard of her from Rogan. I remember after she was telling stories about eating rats that just ate her friends somehow Rogan connected it to the govt response to Covid and how it was similar to North Korea. That was when I really started dialing back on my Joe Rogan consumption.
Yeah I'm not a Joe Rogan hater, I've had a soft spot for the guy since News Radio but the way he often just let's people spew blatant lies unquestionably and spins it into a right wing narrative turned me off from his podcast. I still listen from time to time when he has a comedian on but that's about it
I remember having a similar reaction
I hate Rogan. Always have. He shows up in my TH-cam shorts feed all the time even though I dislike and move on right away. I have no idea how so many people find him entertaining.
Yeeah Rogan has gotten objectively dumber and dumber over the years. Or maybe it's just more obvious now and he's always been dumb hard to say. But yeah I used to watch him all the time and now I never do because he not only brings on really dumb people like Park but often times when he does he also says really really stupid things. He just says stupid shit all the time these days.
@@Zei33 What don't you like about listening to his podcast?
I visited North Korea a few years ago. I remember afterwards seeing her talk to Jordan Peterson and making claims about how there is no love in North Korea even between family members and I thought at the time that seemed like a pretty outlandish claim.
she also claims there is only one train in the dprk 😂
That thing about no love between family members is not true. I just watched an older documentary the other day, it was about a South Korean woman who visited NK, and in one part she was in a NK families home. You could see the families love for each other was genuine. There are also stories on TH-cam about NK defectors who wish they could go back because they miss their family so much .
@@weomxd I know that one isn't true because we went to one of their train stations haha.
Sad but true
He made that claim for the very fact that family members rat out other family members instead of them all taking the pain.
I read a story about the horrors real saviors have gone through and how she using other people's experiences and claiming as her own is utterly disgusting. It undermines real people who have experience the horrors of North Korea. It's pathetic. The fact her stories keep changing up doesn't help her case. I understand she wants the money and fame but the internet remembers. It's only going to come back and bite her. However, I pray those who have escaped continue to share their stories and they have healed.
I’m not saying someone couldn’t be that numb about something but on Rogan show while she talked about how her and her mom were trafficked was like she wasn’t really talking about something happening to her personally. Like if I told someone else’s story. Even if I could have experienced half of that on my own I wouldn’t be able to not have tears talking about it. If the story also included my mom. No shot. You would hear the trauma. How was she not traumatized by it? She showed more feelings when she lied about being robbed because at least some of the story did happen. I wonder if she was punched or just robbed.
@@genericamerican7574you know , you can say she's faking her North Korean experience, but let's not come up with rubbish like she lied about being robbed. The person who robbed her was literally caught and sent to jail for 2 years lmao. Just search up Lecretia Harris
I really used to follow her initially and she was really inspiring.....at the beginning. But the she started grifting 😒😒 She went the most obvious right wing grifting route and I just knew this girl is not being so genuine. Not surprised that this scandal has come about
I've had people take my experiences and told them as if it was their friend's, so I can tell you that it definitely hurts! It isn't an ethical thing to do. However, the situation here is one of giving voice to those who have none, and while it is being done in a selfish manner, for fame, we need to focus on the actual issue at hand, which is the threat to democracy. We need to be able to recognize the signs of a society plunging into destabilization and the legalized destruction of our freedoms. I fear that only those who've witnessed what a society without freedom is, can speak knowledgeably on the matter.
Maybe she misspoke and forget some details? Lots of what she's said about her experiences and life in North Korea is hard to corroborate anyway. Very few know what's really going on in a closed off society like that
Park's lies definitely hurt real survivors & sadly this isn't new since there have been multiple incidents of such liers gaining fame around some tragedies/awful situations considering it's human nature to want to know about a tragedy while real survivors are too traumatized to speak at that moment. However sooner or later, these liers get caught up in their stories as they get addicted to fame & keep exaggerating their stories as they go on.
All true , She's a deceptive and manupulative person, I can't feel a hint of genuine empathy in herself, those crocodile tears and made up fake emotions in most of her interviews are talking. She doesn't seem to care about them, she uses her tale as a self serving way to thrive. Oddly enough, what she denounces is exactly what she seems to be : Corrupted and inhumane
‘Survivors’ of what?
You are the lier here
The only people that are hurt are NK living in NK.
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Yeonmi Park has been a good meme of a human being for a good while now, but I'm glad more people are seeing that she's a bit of a talking head
I wish more people would realize the amount of misinformation Joe Rogan helps spread. It's willlllldddd
@@GSP96They know, they don't care.
Not just a talking head. She got tokenized.
@@profshad3429 :(
@@GSP96 sadly some people doesn't care, they believe want they want to believe knowing it's wrong
I read Park's first book (In Order to Live) in 2021 for my Human Rights class and hearing all the rhetoric she has been pushing leaves me awe. It is completely opposite to what she explored in her memoir, especially from the political sense. Unless I am misremembering the contents of her book: Park stayed away from exploring political ideology/theory in North Korea and how it may overlap with that of the Western World. Listening and reading what Park has described in the last few years leaves me with mental puzzle as to what type of person Park is. On one hand the experiences Yunmi Park described in her first book (such as the anxiety and fear she lived with for most of her childhood due to starvation and worry over her family being imprisoned) left me with a mountain of respect for her. But with all the red flags that have risen in the last 3-4 years I am lead to believe she is two-faced, pathological liar.
@@dreamydavidzzz???
@@dreamydavidzzzwhat?
she isn't wrong, liberals are bad fascist and are the reason why the USA and West Europe are trash now.
@@dreamydavidzzz Most of america is fragile white folks who jump from one party to another depending on who is more popular. Most of these ppl were right wing grifters and now act liberal as if she wasnt saying this for years.
I’m glad people are finally bringing up Yeonmi Park‘s exaggerations…there is relatively little information that comes out of North Korea but there’s not NO information--it’s frustrating because there’s no need to exaggerate horrors or hardships, but even with my limited experience studying and visiting the area it was painfully obvious that’s what she was doing-- and it’s harmful for North Korean defectors who often have a very challenging and unenviable adjustment after defecting. And need support not people doubting them because she’s making claims about people having to push trains or whatever.
Lol what did u even get out of writing that? Foreal, everyone be putting time and effort into a comment that 24 people like, but I understand the left needs constant attention so you go girl!!
@@blazemaurice5437 it got 16 more in 50 min. Disparaging the amount of likes on a post to underplay the argument is a fallacy. Not a logical argument. I don't even care what she said I am just one throwing your logic back at you, that people vibe with her comment there for it has merit (a fallacy yes the same one you used, just adding this so you fully understand). And telling you, you suck at debate.
Work on your rhetoric before you write an argument. You made positive claims, "left needs constant attention," but you gave no evidence. Even if you claim this single comment as evidence. in a country of 334,240,000 people, with a total voter turn out of 62.8% of all people who can vote in the last election for a turn out of 168,420,000/252,230,000. To follow that up, 51.3% of those voters voted left, so you have around 81,000,000 votes for the left. You have identified 1 person of the 81,000,000 who voted of the left last election for the left as, "needing attention."
With evidence of 1/81,000,000 minimum all the way to 1/129,393,990 if we extrapolate our data to the entire population that can vote. Then you have not shown that your statement is true. If you wish to look into trends and how data on trends works I would point you to youtube. This comment would be the size of a small book if I wrote out all of the data proving why 1/81,000,000 is not a trend. Needless to say, it is thousands of times lower then it would need to be to even be supporting evidence.
I don't even care about politics, you all just suck at arguing and it's annoying.
@@blazemaurice5437and what have you gotten out of your comment, that, so far no one has liked?
@@blazemaurice5437 Could say the same to you. Why even type this out just to complain about nothing? If anyone is attention seeking it’s you.
Atleast they had something to add to the topic at hand, unlike you.
You know.. According to this video, Hasan attacks her for underplaying how bad it is in North Korea, and her mother attacks her for exaggeration. Accounts like her's about the place we're told long before she escaped in 09 though, there's even video footage of people making bread using grass, and how currated the few travelers experiences are. Executions and lifetime forced labor verdicts are an everyday occurrence, and there's close to no food for most people. For all you know, her mother might be executed herself if she say's one bad thing on record about NK.
Motherfucker, just view a satellite image of the country at night! The only place with electricity is fucking Pyeongyang! The rest of the countries lives with torchlight FFS!
How can you be so naive and ignorant that you swallow Kim Young Un's shit like this?!
Lying about experiences in N. Korea is doing a huge disservice to other people who have escaped and survived and the rest of the country.
disservice how? I don't understand how her telling us how bad North Korea is hurting anyone here OR there?
What pisses me off about the Yeonmi Park situation is that tankies on social media use her lies as a way to justify what North Korea does to defectors and to its citizens. :/
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! I’m a leftist, and I’m horrified by some tankies willingness to be kushy with a dictatorship (and clearly not a dictatorship of the proletariat, which I know they will say as a defense bc they “read theory”). Just because something isn’t as bad as it could be, doesn’t mean it’s amazing or good or equal
@@Carebearritual exactly, I feel the same way about all of this. :/
Lift the genocidal US sanctions, and the lives of the Korean people will change drastically for the better.
Yeah that's why I don't take much of the criticism against her seriously. It's apparent what the motivations are by many who try to discredit everything about her.
It's pretty clear that she's lying and has gone full on American right-wing mouth job.
I have known a couple of North Korean defectors. Their stories are horrific but nothing like hers. In fact THEY are highly critical of her.
I’ve been saying that Yeonmi was a liar for years. It’s crazy that she hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s because people like her story, it works perfectly in a fragile right wing persons head.
Edit: people have talked super spicy over me saying that she lies.
Her mud stories towards kids has me rolling. This hideous liar wore Chanel bags and other imported stuff during her time in RNK. OF COURSE we all agree living in North Korea is absolutely terrifying and terrible, but now her lavish lifestyle is being supported by the same folks who create a terrible reality for POC.
Yup, the changing of the number of suspects and their sex, the lie about there not being prosecutions against the perpetrators.
She’s a grifter, and people ate up all her lies at face value.
Then they pretend they didn’t, or double down and play ignorant because “she’s on our side”
You realize it doesn’t matter what her “commercial” story is because she’s literally a defector from North Korea. You guys are making it out to seem like she’s been living in Beverly Hills her whole life. She was a literal slave to the Kim regime irregardless of how spicy her story sounds. To call out a LITERAL VICTIM for lying is gross, she’s literally a refugee. Wasn’t everyone here literally calling people racists and bigots the other day for calling that karlee story a lie? Guess it’s different because Yeonmi has conservative opinions? You guys are literal clowns. This is the epitome of group-think.
relax bandwagoner. you been saying nothing for years 😂
I really hope the punch in the face was real. She didn’t deserve getting robbed though.
Lying about it being because of a BLM riot was gross. She insisted on referred to them only as riots. I know there were both so questionable what was she doing in a riot?
She’s actually helping the dictatorship by making discredited allegations. 🤦🏻♀️
A bunch of "Communism Bad, Capitalism/Fascism good" propaganda
But she made million
@@mesiroy1234 what’s your point? Oh well, she’s rich now? Guess that makes what she did okay. 🙄 Those companies who paid her could actually go after her for her lies and win a lawsuit getting their money back. She more or less swindled money.
Yeah, but pretty people don’t really lie, so we should believe *everything* she saids. If you disagree with her, you must be extremely jealous and a Leftist. Try hitting the gym and getting
Right-Winged pilled->🦧.
@@mesiroy1234 so you think its cool to sell your soul and sell out your race for money. Cause the alt right will use her and throw her away. You have no actual power in that lane unless youre a white male, they might parade you around and say youre based but the moment they dont need you it why the fuck are you a women or a minority talking.
I remember hearing Yeonmi's story, and I thought she was so brave for sharing. What a piece of work.
I think it’s insane that US military stories like that have been so common over the years but we’re so desensitized to terrorism happening in Eastern countries that we don’t look at the details like this. Thank you for covering this, Phil and team.
Arabs are ike cockroaches
It's funny that we condemn terrorism so much without acknowledging or at least compensating for our own terrorist actions in another country.
I wonder if that man who lost part of his arm and hand has some type of crowdfunding campaign? I don't mind pitching in to at least help fix one wrong our country has caused.
America is the terrorist of the world if everyone is honest and take the US definition and labelling of countries and people labe terrorist they would #1.
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The Yeonmi Park Scandal i called months ago and everyone called me BS
Now you can be the person who laughed last but laughed the loudest😂
Ive heard people call yeonmi a liar for years but this is the first time ive ever heard anyone CLEARLY and concisely explain why
Truly I don’t under how anyone with common sense wouldn’t immediately understand she’s a lair. She’s says things that are so bombastic and outside the scope of reality it just takes a quick google search.
@@haileys5224exactly, such BS from that woman. Her face doesn’t even look right lol
@@jennifercooljeo6552she started getting plastic surgery after she gained more recognition
@@jennifercooljeo6552plastic surgery
I mean it IS true she is an NK defector. However she was one of the rich ones over there, her life wasn't what she made it out to be. She probably wanted to make it seem like she suffered more so ppl would feel more sorry for her. Imagine if she said how rich she was over there? That wouldn't win her much sympathy.
I always thought it was fishy that she was pushing her image so much without worrying about being caught. Glad I was right
Same! Gotta stick with my gut 😉 it's a shame. You don't want to think that of someone who is a "victim".
She still escaped and could get caught and says she can’t travel to certain countries with nk embassy
Don't get me wrong North Korea is a terrible place, however anyone who thought she was telling the truth on even half the stuff she was saying struck me as gullible.
There are other survivors with MUCH more realistic and consistent testimonies, to be sure
Yeah, I've always known she was bullshitting because I'm smarter than other people
That’s the problem, republicans have realized that people are gullible and will act based off their emotions and while the “intellectual dark web” is telling them they are “using facts and logic.” It’s a dangerous barrel of explosives waiting for another Jan 6th
Not surprised and predicted. Esp with her interviews everywhere. I was like... something is up as she was getting coverage and my algorightm when it was something a I never looked for.
after her own mother came out and said that the majority of the claims she makes about how she grew up, were completely false, i stopped being able to understand why people believe her…. like phil said she was basically “paris hilton” in north korea, she was part of a very rich affluent family and grew up with wealth. she took the wildest stories, and ran with them.
There was this interview with a guy who was an expert on North Korea who flat out said “Be careful with defectors, while they are truly running away from tremendous hardships they commonly lie and change their stories because they need money and really want a better life. It’s only human, imagine running away from a despotic country and having to live as a vagrant in a completely different country. You would lie too”. This is why I never believed 100% what a defector said, that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve better life it just means you can’t trust everything they say about their past.
This is normal for all who got refugee status in the US and other countries as they think they need to prove it not only to the court but to authorites too, so they contineu to receve their monthly allowance which way higher than their salary back home. USSR refugees were notories with the same kind of stories. even so many of them came in 1990s when USSR was gone already and Yeltsyn et al were praised as democrats of democrats while looting their state owned resources.
@@iam8401 No such thing as democrats of democrats since democrats in America is considered as to the right.
@@sleepyearth Your comment is nonsensical.
Try watching the interview of the former north korea agent defector in vice asia, that guy is the real deal, watch the video where he's still thin, it's more raw and fresh, he doesn't go around shouting defector like this girl
I detect subtle racism there.
You shouldn't 100% believe anyone. It has nothing to do with defect or not.
Countless Born-n-Raised American also embellish on a DAILY basis.
Came for North Korea defector scandal allegations, stayed for US covering up modern wars crimes happening in my lifetime. Great cover today guys! I definitely got Phill’d in nicely
Yet DeFranco regularly defends the US and NATO
I used to follow Yeonmi... I slowly started no to trust her after she made a lot of the same similar content, and then changed information to contradict what she said in a previous video... but to find out mostly everything was a lie is truly heartbreaking
Hopefully you got some insight into how people like that work making it easier to spot in the future.
Same. I remember the video that made me unsubscribe from her channel was she came out as very pro the 2nd amendment. It was the way she talked about it that made me side eye it and I just couldn't go back to watching her videos the same way. She had definitely started sprinkling her right wings videos thought her videos and I'm upset I got caught up and believed her.
I'm not that crazy about her enough to follow her channel. If you don't talk about your story, you will never get credit for it. Bad things happen to people and they don't talk about it, in fact it could make you look embarrassing. In fact, whatever bad that happens to you makes you a victim or irresponsible of your situation especially in a military environment. If you don't call the police, you're not going to get justice or anything for that matter. If you don't say something, you're going to be ignored. I hope her story is true, especially the Christian missionaries helping people escape. I mean JBP is very interested in her story and that's why I take her seriously it's because so famous and convincing.
@@arisu229 Hoping her story is true because she's famous is a horrible reason to believe her. I don't control you, believe whatever you like, but I hope you can see how that's nonsensical
It’s really impressive that you are covering this bombing story. I can’t imagine it’s a big click generator so I respect your conviction in bringing us important stories instead of just tabloid clickbait. I wasn’t aware of any of the stories you brought us today. Thanks, Phil.
I read a book called "See You Again in Pyongyang," and in it, the author explained that most of the most famous north korean defectors take the most extreme abuses they hear from other women and combine them all into one story. So generally, one person might've experienced a portion of something similar to what happened, but never all of the things.
It doesn't matter if she lied about her own experience or if she lied about how bad it is there. She's talking about others's lives since she has a voice. Everyone online or offline lies. Life in NK is horrific- that's a fact. It doesn't matter if she/someone she knew only had to eat a rat once or daily. IT'S STILL INHUMANE AND HORRIFIC.
It matters A LOT! Yeah, it may be bad over there, but she is speaking from a fraudulent point of view and fools like you keep feeding her ego and pockets because you dont want to see that she is full of crap!
She’s just a political puppet now for conservatives. She gets paid a bag to go to those republican events and exaggerate the fuck out of her stories.
Oh man I've thought Park was sketchy for years, I'm so glad people are finally questioning her story.
I was enthralled by Yeonmi's TH-cam channel years ago as I found her videos fantastically entertaining. She told stories so well and seemed to have an instinct for how to get to salient and interesting details in a tale and keep her videos well paced and compelling. That being said, I also narrowed my eyes at her very early on, and my gut instinct quietly said, 'something's not right with this woman.' I still don't know what to make of her and would be furious to learn of how much emotional connection and intellectual investment on my part was absolutely worthless due to her being a fraud to some degree. What a waste of time and furthermore, she'd be the one responsible for putting entirely false information into my noggin whilst portraying herself as someone-- and indeed someTHING-- that she's not. It's a horrible thing, to convince people that you're deserving of great respect and a source of first-hand cultural information when you're lying or embellishing shamelessly. I'll keep my wits about me and see what the future holds with regards to Park.
So you "narrowed your eyes" at an Asian person, eh?
Sounds pretty racist to me....
(j/k raughing out roud)
@@clicheguevara5282 Oh HAHAHA! I caught that awful double meaning as I was typing it but left it in because she's just another human and I'd use that turn of phrase for everybody with no ugly pejorative meaning intended whatsoever. I have to tell you though, I draw the line at saying someone looks like a monkey when they're from a certain part of the globe. The world is all so twisted up and people thinking my observation was racist says everything about them and nothing about me. Some people DO look like monkeys-- a bit like how some people look like foxes, teddy bears, mice, pigs, turtles and chickens. Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle, let's have some real talk here. 😉🤷♀😆
The fact that you watched her videos because you found them “entertaining” says a lot about you. It only takes some critical thinking skills and reading a book or two to understand the lies you fed about North Korea (or the DPRK by its official name). Idk what that paragraph is about.
@@RandomPerson-ft2dx Whatever you say champ.
As a veteran I sadly can say that I'm not at all surprised. In 2019 we were woken up to "incoming", (RPGs, mortars, etc...) I stepped out of my tent to see the neighboring one on fire. After the dust settled we were informed of injuries, 3 injured, 1 severe through out his legs and the other 2 were minor injuries (1 of the 2 got a free ear piercing). Taliban hurt, I repeat HURT 3 of our guys, we woke up the day after to Warthogs, Apache's and mortars. We never found out the "tole" but I can very confidentially say it was SIGNIFICANTLY worse than 3 personnel and if I was a betting man the same would probably apply for deaths
Man that explains why we lose war so much. We can’t get the civilians on our side
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144Go look up the outcomes of every war america has been in and see the outcomes. You are quite misinformed.
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144We are actually really good at war. And secondly that's just how the US works, we deal in "proportional" offense. You sink 6 boats, we drop 2 nukes
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144that cause the civilians don’t want y’all there. You are seen as the invaders. US makes the case worse, they could have figured it out on their own with less people dying and economic disadvantages.
I don't know that all military mistakes deserve punitive actions but pretending they didn't happen or justifying things is wild to me.
We're talking about a raid being conducted by special forces. Guys who literally train all day everyday and are the elite of the elite. If some idiot drives a van into an active raid and they shoot at him no duh the military is going to have the backs of their operators over some dumb dumb who kept driving despite warning shots.
@@bestieswithtestiesdude, you can be a bootlicker and still agree that mass murdering civilians overseas is wrong. Come on now
@@bestieswithtestiesdid you even watch the video? It would have been almost impossible for him to react or know where the gunshots were coming from. Shut up.
@@bestieswithtestiesseems like the report disagrees with your assessment. Let me ask you why you assume that because they’re the elite of the elite that they would never do anything wrong or the military trying have it covered up afterwards?
You can’t be so naïve to believe this could not have happened?
Now imagine how the family members, friends, and fellow citizens of the countries bombed (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, etc.) feel about it? They've been telling y'all the truth for decades about the disgusting atrocities the American military is actually commiting right now as we speak only to turn around and hear themselves called the "terrorists" across all major American media publications. Then y'all wonder how people could possibly decide to join Al Qaeda, ISIS, Syrian Military, Iranian Military, Russia's side of the Ukrainian War, etc. and commit what you call "random unprovoked" attacks. Smdh. Y'all treat this like it's a movie when the people on the ground actually experiencing it have to suffer just for your entertainment. To them, y'all are literally comparable to the Capital in the Hunger Games which is ironic considering how popular of a series it is in America.
I’m gutted to hear that Yeonmi Park might be telling fake stories. I’ve been a fan ever since I saw her on Joe Rogan. Assuming the allegations are true, it’s such a shame she felt the need to represent herself and North Korea as something different than the truth smh
This happens all the time. I've noted this with Africans that move to the US. They always find it necessary to exaggerate things like poverty and slums issue.
Rogan…. Jesus wept. That should have been your wake-up call. He’s down with ANY right wing rhetoric and champions outright lies and conspiracy theories that back up his conservative worldview - he does no vetting whatsoever.
People have been calling her out for nearly 10 years especially the koreans. They noted how she said she was eating grain of rice for 10 years, then eat dirt for 10 years, then eat tree barks for 10 years and she's only 20 years old at that time.
She couldn't even get her stories straight.
Bro, she loves you. She loves all the suckers. That’s what makes con artists tick.
@@antonymwangi4986lol an Asian woman gets exposed for lying so you bring Africans in this LOOL. If you think people fleeing Africa are lying you are delusional and coping hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So wait…..a person that conservatives love, turns out to be a fraud? Shocking
As surprising as the left openly mutilating children and pushing pedo shiii
I know -- those conservative frauds. They're goona be your daddy too!
If your world view is dependent on denying reality of course you are going to love people who lie to you.
At this point frauding conservatives is looking like a good career path.
@@thanatos454 how am I denying reality?
Ever since I learned about how much money goes into scheduling, booking and planning these kinds of podcast or interview appearances I realized that there’s no way for anyone to give a shit about integrity in that industry.
It’s sad to know that the most well known Korean defector with a legendary story (I saw her first with the viral summit video) wasn’t telling the whole truth about it and is now the defacto representative of people who have had to suffer through so much.
I watched you TH-cam a few times a few years back for her stories on what N Korea was like and while she was right wing in her opinions, I felt like I couldn’t blame her. If she’d suffered so much under a communist regime, I could see why she’d go to the opposite end of the spectrum.
It’s genuinely sad to find this out about her. She’s going beyond right wing and starting into alt right opinions.
we can blame her, she knows exactly what shes promoting and where it leads, she just decided she wanted to be one of the ones on top.
We can and we will. No excuses for being right-wing.
It's insane how people don't realize that trying to be martyr for their situation where they DID have unfortunate situations...but then they exaggerate or lie for profit ruins the collective effort.
Just like how the ONE time a black woman kidnapping makes national news, it's found to be a grand lie. Now, one of the most prominent North Korean defectors is found to be lying AND influencing right wing movements that she herself may not realize all the issues that come with it is also found lying.
That all said, my sympathy can go out to some of these folks. Yes, they were trying to make a profit or cover up a situation or maybe try to bring to light unfortunate cases of discrimination, etc...but one thing that is often missed. It's VERY, VERY hard to realize when your one voice becomes the influential voice for hundreds or thousands. When a random person becomes national news all of a sudden (for example, I never heard of Park until today), that viral moment comes so quickly that it's tough for me to sit here and "yeah she shouldn't have done that". Because, I think it IS difficult to determine when ones comments become the comments of many.
@@TimeLord675 I can name one. Having a dem president
My thoughts and experiences exactly! She started going alt right/conservative REAL hard after she was featured on Joe’s podcast and as soon as she started using the term “woke” I stopped following her immediately. After she had another boom in popularity from his podcast her stories and political views started getting much more ridiculous which I suspected was to pander to his many conservative/alt right viewers who followed her after the show. Oh and I remember one time she posted a reel of her dancing on Instagram and it got taken down because of copyrighted music and she claimed China was trying to “censor” her 🤦♀️
I used to watch The Philip DeFranco show when I was 13 and I'm now 29.
So happy to see you're still doing this thing man.
Yeonmi has been known to be a liar for a long time so this is nice to finally see being blown open
Just like Trump, I really don't think she can stop herself from lying. it's a compulsion that gets her in trouble again and again.
@@AgeismGoesBothWays if she is a NK defector it’s possible it’s trauma but it’s also likely entitlement since she was essentially North Korean Elite
I spent some time watching a number of her videos because I like listening to other survivors. Being a survivor of human trafficking and having been homeless on and off throughout my youth to escape my abusers, I noticed occasionally Yeonmi would drop little sentences here or there that felt borderline shameful. One was something along the lines of "I come here and there are all these homeless here who seem so sad but you have it so EASY." Meanwhile so many of my loved ones, some of the kindest and strongest people in the world, have died from the elements, or at the hands of abusers, or su*cide. She also seriously confuses socialism with dictatorship a lot. Whether you like the idea of socialism or not, I could call myself a doctor but that doesn't make it true. It just felt as I watched that she really didn't have much compassion for the survivors and struggles that are in countries elsewhere. No matter what, you had it easy if you live in North America. That was just my perspective, though.
I hope you are doing ok. I can't even imagine what it was like for you having gone through something like human trafficking, abuse, homelessness, etc... You're definitely a fighter as well as a survivor. Tough as nails. Much respect to and for you 🙏😊
@@chase-warwick. Nobody said it was capitalist you’re imagining things nobody said. It’s probably because you’re a capitalist. And they tend to do that a lot. Capitalism gives people more schizophrenia than other systems. And the voices are meaner. If you go to Third World countries schizophrenics don’t have mean voices in their head but in Hours they do. That’s because our society is dedicated to money and money is inherently evil.
I mean I live in a state with the most homeless people (CA) they pay people to be homeless and now they are kind being allowed to live on the highways. Highway 99 south is a popular one.
@@AngelSaintCloud it’s OK all that money we could’ve spent on them is at least going to Ukraine to help fight a war that we should have no part in
@@chase-warwick It's not socialist either because there are no armed worker unions/syndicates which Marx stresses are essential for socialism to exist. Also hereditary rule is completely anathema to socialist thought, as is unpaid/forced labor. NK is, first and foremost, a fascist state with a red star drawn in crayon over it, and it's a shithole like every fascist state ever...
NPR: one of the few remaining institutions with true journalistic integrity. Massive props to them for championing this man’s case.
LMAO propaganda at it's finest. The left will go down in history like the Nazi's.
NPR, "journalistic integrity" LOL.
@@thekamotodragonhe’s right NPR is great. Just because they don’t agree with whatever fantasy world you live in doesn’t mean they don’t have journalistic integrity.
@@Baelor-Breakspear Do you know what journalistic integrity means man? It means presenting stories, for journalism, in a way that's unbiased, and truthful to their findings. A good example would be a journalist who gets assigned a story, goes out to where their story is, writes down simply what they see, and then reports on those findings honestly, someone without an agenda, whose only goal is to get the truth about a story and then give the people that truth, THAT'S real journalistic integrity.
Idk if you've noticed, but unfortunately almost NO news organization in America fits that description anymore, including NPR. They're obviously biased towards one political side and it's extremely thinly-veiled. Promoting progressive causes 24/7 is not real journalism and I'm saying that as someone who isn't even on the right.
@@thekamotodragon I’m sorry but you’re wrong. Stories should have bias towards the truth and it’s not NPR’s fault that the truth and data usually lines up with the left end of the political spectrum. Science, data and evidence generally have a left wing bias so would it be wrong to report the story this way? No bias towards the truth is a good thing and don’t hate on news agencies because the truth leans left. Facts generally have a left wing bias.
Hasan was my first eye opener on her lies. She’s literally just making stuff up to get money. It’s annoying.
You needed Hasan the simpleton to point out to you that this woman is a grifter? Okay.
Hasan is just as much as a grifter, and anyone who tries to make money off taking a side in the "culture war" is
Isn't he a grifter himself. A socialist millionaire that got his spot of fame due to nepotism?
Here come the antis. His name is like a trigger word for uncharitable people
@@djbobby224do you know what a grifter is,..,.. serious question
I remember listening to her on a podcast about two years ago and thinking to myself a lot of her stories simply did not make any sense, I'm glad people are pointing out her fraud now.
What fraud do you saw?
I dont know what Yeonmi Park has gone through, but it is certainly different than Hyunseo Lee, who actually never sought publicity for the sake of it. She told her story and started living. Yeonmi has gone to seek publicity from her ordeal with an ever changing story.
Are you okay? Like, are your brain cells functioning properly? Not all survivors are the same and the way you spread AWARENESS is to share your story. What she did was BRAVE. What oppressive, third world country have you escaped from? Please tell us how she should have behaved. And no, her words have been cherry picked and manipulated to look exaggerated or untrue. It is so gross.
I saw one interview with Park. Honestly everything she said was just RED FLAG, her story keeps changing and the fact that she compared going to University to living in North Korea, what the actual F? This woman is just straight up crazy.
She's also landed in privilege. Married a rich American, who I have to imagine is MAGA.
I assumed that the reading she gravitated towards MAGA thinking was because it’s what she grew up with. North Korea conditions citizens not to think, to just accept propaganda as fact. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I went to university in America as well. The similarities are there. Left wing extremism, compelled speech, separating people by race and class and delivering patronage to those who are approved, censorship, and the climate of fear. Yeonmi is on to something, and the left hates that she's speaking truth to power.
@@sallyostlingshe was also the 1% in NK, her relatives confirmed it. She prob had a stifled life but she had immense riches and did not go without food. She didn't suffer in the same way the average poor NK person did. But she still did suffer.
Read her books and you will see more. She complained about Columbia Univ. because it was so woke and she realized that they are preaching things that are lies and nonsense. People that come from countries like NK instantly recognize these bad things because they had to live with them. I know several people that have immigrated here from places like that and they all say the same thing. America is in danger from this woke mind virus and worse. They are teaching this trash in places like Columbia U. to young people that are sponges for this nonsense.
I can’t stand YeonMi Park but what we need is for somebody to REALLY challenge her on her BS. I saw her interview on Flagrant 2 (no idea why she was on a comedic pod lol) but they just lapped up everything she was saying no matter how insanely unrealistic her claims were…the same thing happened on JRE it was just embarrassing. She needs to be challenged by somebody who is more on the center-right.
Because she is propagating the right's (centre or far right) agenda.
Why someone who is not aware of north korea shod challenge her? Because everyone who knows nk knows that she's legit
Yet nobody really gave any hard evidence that she is lying.
@@bellatordei3440your comment makes no sense
@@Johann-uc9snno hard evidence? Like when she said you aren't allowed to learn mathematics in north Korea yet a north Korean scholar literally showed a picture of a mathematics worksheet for kids? This is literally in the video
I bought Yeonmi Park's first book and it breaks my heart she's turned out like this. It seems like she feels ashamed over her economic status, like her suffering wasn't enough compared to other defectors so she just started lying and let the lies spin out of control. Dissapointing.😞
I kind of could understand why she did it, she's one of the most privileged north korean and even then her education level is probably low, hence she's not a desirable to hire by normal jobs.
She escaped and then had to become a clown to survive, maybe she start off honest, but as time goes on she realised there's only so much things she can tell since she herself didn't get such treatment.
One of the telltale is that her story never ends. There's only so much horrific things you can experience and tell it so perfectly without emotion, especially if those stories involve real people. She just keep making new stories at some point i wonder how many years she can keep this up.
I long stopped watched her years before. Used to defend her when people said she's lying..
hmmm, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense. It's like survivors guilt...who knows and I don't know enough about it to speculate anymore, feels wrong.
Yeah. The truth is, a lot of the defectors come from wealthier backgrounds because they simply have the means and tools to escape. It shouldn't be a point of shame. You should just acknowledge it and try to use that power for good.
@@jeanneann3545what you said about telling the story without emotion is something I’ve noticed as well. It doesn’t seem normal.
I did too and I agree about your theory.
Thank you for taking time to talk about the Pentagon files, it is really great to see some people care about these things even though those who did commit a crimes will not face consequences .
Barakat's story is heartbreaking. And then they wonder why so many people has anti-US sentiment.
I came across yeonmi a few years ago, and thought her stories were interesting, but then some of the things she said rubbed me wrong. and at the time I didn't want to doubt her and the struggles of North Korea, but she was pushing some weird narrative during covid and I wasn't sure if maybe she just didn't understand some of the nuances because of where she was from.. but I did stop watching her then. So I guess this story coming up now doesn't surprise me, but rather explains why I was uncomfortable with her then.
Even if we accept that “war is dirty”. Idk how any can defend how the US Government responds to aftermath.
Maybe she meant to say "extradited", because the rest of her sentence she said was "You could be executed with 3 generations of your family to prison." She may have just misspoken. Extradited makes more sense in that sentemce than executed.
Then why haven’t she corrected that mistake then after hearing people question it? She absolutely know what execute means, she have used it at other times. If she misspoke she would have corrected herself since she knows the meaning of the word she accidentally said. She didn’t do that so clearly she meant to say executed.
It is insane how the US is never held accountable for its war crimes
Who’s going to lock them up
Every country has gotten away with war crimes
They control the world economy, so they’ll never be
you mean the war crimes to countries that want everyone obey or be dead?! I‘m so soo sooo sad!
Wonder why police feel so entitled...
Lets just be real about this, if she wasn't good looking, no one would care about her defection story, and you don't get that good looking being malnourished it just doesn't happen.
I had my reservations about her story, i'm sure there is truth sprinkled in it here and there, but ultimately you gotta follow the money, and the motivations behind getting it.
Part of me thought that she must've been from South Korea because of her looks and thought that she was pretending to be North Korean in order to trick others.
The other part thought that if she was North Korean, then she had to have been part of the elite, and the only reason they "escaped" was because her family must've pissed off Kim and knew that they would lose everything.
That's a little sexist of you, don't you think? 😂😮😅
@@CerealKYIts not being sexist, its being real
Just want to point out that her multiple plastic surgeries occurred AFTER she defected and became famous. People DID care about her story and IMO, she was prettier back then.
@@LahvTM apparently the money and attention got better when she lied 🤥
Most of the South Koreans I know already knew she was bullshitting her stories. That’s why she even left South Korea because the shows were putting her discrepancies on blast. However, the western countries put her on a pedestal and gave her the fame and wealth. So she just kept milking it. Not surprised 🤷♂️. Surprised it took this long for people to realize it here.
Does the CIA send you the whole script or do they send you the key talking points?
I instantly discounted Park’s words when she went on a anti woke thing, if you’re worth taking seriously, you can be more specific. Using the word Woke just shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Especially since North Korea isn’t the result of “wokeness”, it’s reactionary totalitarianism. Completely opposed ideals.
They’re comparing wokeness to reactionary totalitarianism in their extremity. Instead of a line, the line of left to right is more like a circle according to some. The centre is at the bottom, and as you get extreme, you get closer to the top.
Which is stupid, but yeah.
I've always found "anti-woke" people hilarious because being "woke" just means being aware of societal issues and institutional prejudice...so they're essentially bragging about being ignorant.
According to her, her son said that sharing is caring so she yelled at him and didn't want to let him go to school anymore
The thing with people like her (grifters) is that they will be pro-something until that no longer makes them money or fame. Then they will be anti-something to try to get back into the game. Ultimately, they couldn't care less what they say or do as long as they are famous or at the very least infamous.
Y’all just now figuring out Park is a liar???
I came to say the same thing 😂 she has been a joke in my circle for awhile
Not really, those Hasan clips are old.
Immense respect to you and your team for these stories today Phil. They're so important.
About two years ago Yeonmi got exposed for lying about a lot of things, spreading misinformation, etc. I find it really interesting with her stories, because when I watched an interview of her, she said that she escaped being a pleasure woman from Kim jong un.
That’s fascinating, the version I heard had her escape through her mother and her becoming sex workers in China and the two of them earned enough money to escape from there, Kim having no involvement. I’m sure there are other variations as well out there
@@heath6802oh lord, was that her story about being sex slaves for a family of intellectually disabled people? Her stories are absurd.
@@popartpistol Oh wow! No! She said that? In the version I heard, she was a prostitute for wealthy Chinese businessmen who knew they were defectors so they knew she would comply to whatever they wanted
@@heath6802 she told the story about the family on JRE. She loves a tall tale!
She was 13 when she left the country, right? 13 year olds are not typically known for insightful and nuanced social commentary. Her memories are memories of a kid with all the issues that come with that, the fact it all happened 15 years ago+ being just the top of the iceberg.
I've always thought that Yeonmi lady is a political plant. I don't believe anything that comes out of her mouth since i first caught onto her stories not adding up.
I've always suspected some of her claims were a bit exaggerated but it also sounds like the claims that she is flat out lying are also exaggerated. Regardless of what side you're on this is all just hear-say. People are really blowing this way out of proportion. I'm usually a little skeptical of survivor stories but the only way we will know for sure is when NK finally opens it's borders.
Thank you for covering these two stories, esp. the Pentagon files about the government casually murdering civilians.
Im glad to see people are starting to hear the real story of Yeonmi’s past
I'm continuously confused how cancel culture is labeled only a liberla thing. Conservatives have ABSOLUTLEY done that and are doing that now mainly with the love hate they feel on trump
True they tried to cancel the Barbie movie
I do believe there is an incentive for Yeonmy to make up things and lie, but the way she lies goes beyond recognition and usefulness. I believe that she might be seeking attention in a psychological way, i think she might be a pathological liar.
Pathological liars change and make up thing to a point that stops being useful for what they are telling it, and you can see that in her stories.
Yep, I've had experiences with a compulsive liar and that's is the impression I'm gettin. It's genuinely almost impossible to rely on anything she's saying at all.
Also the money. She knows we the public have N.Korea as this awful country, and we don't know as much as we want to know. So she has a perfect opportunity to exaggerated while pandering to a poltical party, which earns her more money.
nah she’s just grifting
Maybe she was conditioned in N Korea to tell people whatever they wanted to hear, just to survive. And she never broke that habit.
Idk. Maybe I am a bit sympathetic to her because of the giant bazookas.
@@timothysmcnamara5925 most likely not. Or that would be way more NK defectors doing the same.
I feel bad for Yeonmi's son. If what she says about her personal life is true, she sounds like a god awful mother.
Its will be same for Kim Kardashian's son..
Married divorced to get citizenship and take half
@@stealthnuke1stop caping for her you simp
She’s a racist lying tramp, I’m glad she’s finally getting exposed
@@sangbeom6245yea when I heard they are not together I was like "whaaaaaaaaaaa????" Isn't she supposed to be super humble nearly starved to death. Now I'm hearing divorcee and seeing implants? Lol omg she deserves what's coming her way
0:06 finally you are talking about her, I've been wondering for months if we would ever see her on your show.I use to follow Yeonmi Park, I did for years, but things started to get really weird with her speech with each new video. I do think North Korea is a terrible place to be born in, and we should care more about authoritarian and totalitarian countries, I don't know how we, the rest of the world, let them be, but when It comes to North Korea I just follow other defectors, keep with the documentaries, etc. (edit) The second story is absolutely disgusting and devastating.
North Korea is a blessing for alt right propagandists. Refugees? Nope, their situation isn't as bad as North Korea so they don't need help. Want free healthcare? Move to North Korea then. It's maddening.
Now that she’s being seen as a conservative we have people like this guy, with a negative opinion. Otherwise, he’s have her on his show as well.
EXACTLY
I literally seen a video of her saying that she had to eat bugs and rodents. Now hearing she was lying is so gross.
Phil thank you so much man I can say that most Americans will never hear of things like this I myself thought I was decently read on the situation in the Middle East, knowing that we have killed many civilians but when the actual details are shown like this video it makes me disgusted to know that the military is just treating these people like insects having absolutely zero care in the world when or how they kill them. I can't imagine what that man is going through and honestly its no wonder why these people hate us in the USA. If they would do even a fraction of the things we have done to them our government probably would have dropped the A bomb on them and went ahead like nothing happened. I hope that man finds some sort of justice and or peace but sadly I know he never will.
I used to follow Yeonmi, even bought her book. I was a “fan” up until around 2019/2020, that’s when I started to notice that she had gotten got by the far right. I felt bad for her, going from one regime to another (obviously can’t conflate the two but still, it’s brainwashing). But it’s sad to say I don’t feel as bad for her anymore because what she’s doing now isn’t out of her control anymore, she has made a conscious CHOICE to be a pick-me for the far right. I can’t feel bad for anyone who chooses to become a grifter. I notice that other defectors seem appalled by her and don’t involve themselves with her anymore and I think that’s for the best. I truly hope she finds peace though, it must be exhausting to live a lie and have to be around people who truly don’t care about you as a person and only care if you’re on the same side they are. Love & light ✌️
"It's like saying in America you can be executed for a speeding ticket." Man, I got some bad news for ya...
Evidently has never seen a traffic cop's bodycam...
I actually ate dog food when I was a child because I was hungry. Not because we were poor, I was just always hungry and anytime we visited people who had a dog, I was curious what kind of food that dog had to eat. Regardless, I was always very hungry with a super charged metabolism because of hyperthyroidism. Just didn’t know it at the time. We did live in a car for a week after my parents lost their business, even then I never felt poor. My partners are honest hard workers and smart, these attributes, coupled with a normal government, anyone can make money.
I am recovering from a hangover. Your sunday videos are nice suprises to start the week :) Thank you, phil!
The standard Phillip DeFranco experience: Hear about a celebrity for the first time because of something terrible they did.
I recommend everyone here watches: loyal citizens of pyongyang in seoul. The sound doesn’t quite line up but if you can get past that and just read the subtitles, it’s an incredible documentary on what it’s actually like to be a North Korean defector.
In the video 2 North Koreans talk about what their home land is like vs the places they were forced (allegedly…bnr) to live in. They are unpaid and from what I could tell were genuine in their experience. The video also contains proof of their claims.
2:20 I'm glad more of this information is coming to light because there are an entire country of people who are starving and on the brink of death facing an incredibly harsh life and she's launched massive book sales and isn't using what she went through to help others get to safety but instead goes to release another book and some of the things she said just seemed so wild at the time it just didn't seem to make any sense but people believed her and tried to be sympathetic.
Her stories are actually mild compared to other survivors. speaking of, many survivors lived trough starvation and saw a plethora of executions for the smallest stuff, YEARS before she escaped in 09. You're gobbeling up Kim Young Un's bullshit and should stop before you long after dictatorship, executions, starvations, poverty and generational forced laborcamp are both confirmed by video, and they're a daily affaire in NK. They don't even have electricity outside Pyeongyang, let alone food and clean water.
Wtf is your problem?
we have Nina Špitálníková here in Czech Republic and she STUDIED in North Korea, she has been there two times, she has written books about interviews with refugees and when we went to see her, someone asked if she thinks Yeonmi is lying and she confirmed she lied on many occasions
I'm from asia and I've seen a lot of north korean survivor stories from online or from tedtalks etc years back, and this yeonmi girl has from time to time popped up on my youtube shorts and her stories and the way she talks are pretty much the way republicans talk or how she tells her story are exactly how I see republican related youtube accounts go in youtube, and I can compare this pretty much cause I watch a lot of international news and it doesn't really matter to me how this left and right of america matters to me here in asia but it's a little bit suspicious though because all of the other videos and interviews I've seen of defectors from north korea doesn't have this clean cut way of telling stories where sometimes race immediately the topic of the story or some random rightist point of view that only republicans (as I've seen on news) give out and it's even so specific that it makes it look fake
Damn it, no wonder so many people around the world hate us 😢
I wasn’t personally in North Korea when she lived there so I can’t question her story
It disturbes me that the majority of comments are about Yeonmi Park and political positions rather than the US military covering up innocents dying at their hands.
Agreed… We should look into it more. Maybe get some justice for people Obama blew up with his drone strikes in countries we weren’t even at war with for example?
I saw her interview on Joe Rogan and I didn’t buy it, I watched other interviews and the same thing. I questioned myself for doubting her story and I judged myself harshly for it.
I’m happy to see that this is coming out, I was on to something.
Not to say that she didn’t go through something but that story she makes it just plays into the lapping dogs that is the media.
When she started using the word "woke" and comparing US liberals to NK I instantly knew she was full of shit. Hunger also hasn't been a thing for NK for a while now because a huge chunk(around half I think) of China's foreign aid it gives to NK. China has a vested interest in keeping NK stable as it's a good barrier to any US invasion as SK is a US ally. She hasn't been to NK in over 20 years and in that time we saw China becoming trade partners with the US during Clinton's presidency and becoming a world economic powerhouse. NK probably has gone from a complete shithole to mostly a shithole.
Yeonmi barely escaped North Korea with her breast implants.
Wow... The washington post found inconsistencies with someone on the right. Stunning
If the Yeonmi Park story is interesting cause if it’s true she’s a fraud. Well damn.
We've been known she's a liar......
Obviously she’s a fraud… rich in NK and found a way out and made up a bunch of stories about NK now she’s making up shit about Americans.
@@GSP96Have we "been known" English as well? Christ AAVE is raping American grammar
@@anguishedcarpethave a little fun. shakespeare wrote sentences like that. you'd know if you were literate
@@anguishedcarpetwell that sentence was confusing
I thought I left my YT on 2x, but no, that's the regular speed