I hate when people complain about relatively minor things and then say "my suffering is important, it's not a competition". They just need to think about the positives and how lucky we are to be born in our situations, and to make the best of it. Everyone who has a right to complain, knows that it could be worse.
Plus her shirts pretty much see through. I don't know if it's that black Victoria's secret for all making her puppies look that good or she just has some real nice ta tas
@@robertstone9988 *Seriously?* With all of the terrible things she's talking about, you still can't help to comment on her "ta tas"? There's a time and place for everything. This isn't the time or place for comments like that. _You must be an incel._
@@YeshuaDisciple916 no I just really appreciate a nice set of breasteses. If the role was reversed and I was given a speech about the Holocaust or something but I was wearing see-through white leggings but no underwear on I'm pretty sure everybody would be focusing in on my schlong. Matter of fact that's hilarious I wish I could just go around giving super serious speeches about super serious things wearing white see-through leggings and no underwear and just being like what's your guys's problem I'm up here lol.
"Fish in the water don't notice the water they swin in" is such a profound and sad way to describe the things shes seen in her life and how it was all (and still is there) just so normalized I deeply feel her story, I was adopted during the one child policy regimen in china, i was told my mother gave me away because it either that or leave me to die and she refused, this is all i know of her im grateful for her brave sacrifice for my life, thankfully i was much to young to understand what was really happening at the time and very little about my birth family myself, I wish to find them one day and they would want to see me, I hope this woman has a strong support system in her life and a professional to speak to her and hear her, I wish her the most peaceful life for the rest of her days ❤
Why would a fish in water not notice the water it's swimming in? If you're walking on a sidewalk or a trail in nature, do you notice where you're walking? I do.
So glad to see her story spreading. It sounds like something you'd read in a history book, but it's happening right now in our lifetimes, as we stare at our screens surrounded by abundance.
@Cortez Media conditioned her like a Skinner's rat more outrageous she spoke more claps and food she got. Jordan Peterson, Lex, Joe im a fan of all but i need to realize they are just gullible humans like us. Without research they just take the face value just like us.
My brother used to work at Indian embassy in North korea. He used to say in 8 months of his service he has not seen a single person who is close to 5 feet tall. It's a condition of serious starvation.
Previous Chinese generations are like this. The very old. Met an assistants grandmother. 4ft 3in tall. No longer true for the young who can be as tall as the Dutch for healthy young men from middle class families.
It’s insane that what she is detailing is still happening at this very moment, while we all live such sheltered lives never having to even fathom a life like that. Hearing her story was just wow.
Listen vro we didnt earn that for free bro people died for it. George washington spent his life at war and when he finally got the chance to chill at home they begged him back to be first president. Which is quite literally like coming out of retirement to be in both the best and worse jobs that exists. Its a grueling job. Theres no days off for at least 4 years straight unless youre joe biden. You cant just abandon america for a two month vacation
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Most of everyone living in the us currently hasn’t had to worry about flies eating their organs while they drape out of their orifices. Just saying.
It's not happening, where is the evidence? Where's the evidence of the bodies in the streets? The rats? The train she had to push for one month in the snow? JUST A FUCKING SHRED
Yeah but sometimes at 3am after a night of drinking and I cant find my cell phone so i can have the food delivered right to my mouth......I have to actually get up and go drive to like a White Castle or something just to eat again. Does she have to do that?? I didnt think so
@@DaZandersShow it means she's speaks the English language very very well for someone who's first language isn't English... how much of an airhead do you have to be
When she talks of not feeling compassion, and that it haunts her....I hope she knows now that is just trauma. When you are just trying to survive your whole life, you have probably never even been shown compassion. So sad.
*As a child, did she really see a woman publicly executed for watching a Hollywood movie?* She made the claim that she watched a person executed in public for watching a foreign film. Sometimes she says it is James Bond other times a South Korean film. Other North Korean defectors have also said that public executions were stopped several years prior to that date.In a response to Mary Ann Jolley's artcle which exposed her lies & fabrications, Yeonmi denied that she ever claimed such a story : UPDATE: *A Response from Yeonmi Park to Mary Ann Jolley's article in Diplomat* "I want to thank Mary Ann Jolley for caring so much about the terrible situation in North Korea that she would point out any inconsistencies in my quotes and how my story has been reported. Much of the time, there was miscommunication because of a language barrier. I have only learned English in the last year or so, and I’m trying hard to improve every day to be a better advocate for my people. I apologize for any misunderstandings. For example, *I never said that I saw executions in Hyesan. My friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to name it).* *But is it true? Did she never say that? Was it a misunderstanding, the so-called language barrier? Or she is just a fabricator and liar! Let us see :* *When she was nine years old, Park was forced to attend the execution of her classmate’s mother*. Her crime? She had lent a *SOUTH KOREAN* movie to a friend. The townsfolk were gathered in a large STADIUM to watch the punishment. *“She got killed in front of us,”* said Park, now 20 years-old. *“I was standing next to her daughter - my whole school had to go.”* www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic *When she was nine, she was forced to watch her best friend's mother being executed on the STREET before her eyes.* "She was a very nice, gentle mother," she said. "But I knew that lady. She was not that bad. She was not going to destroy our country," she said. *She has witnessed it many times as a child, when her mother used to give her a piggyback ride to the big stadium to watch the public executions, considered a 'celebration' which everybody is under orders to attend.* Along the route, victims are beaten with sticks and a rock placed in their mouths so that all their teeth are broken. Once they get there, they are shot three times - in the knee, the chest and the head. Nobody, not even the closest of family members, is permitted to show any sign of grief. (In an interview with the Irish Independent,Nicola Anderson October 17 2014) www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html *She watched as her friend’s mother was executed.* ....The woman stood accused of watching a contraband *James Bond DVD* and leant it to friends-a crime Yeonmi herself had committed, and one that could only be redeemed in death. It’s more than a decade later and she calmly recalls the shots ringing out, followed by an explosion of blood. Oct. 31, 2014 www.thedailybeast.com/how-titanic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-koreas-totalitarian-state *And yet she repeats this lie many times in following years aftar 2014,* an example : The 27-year-old said she was regularly forced to watch people being executed including her best friend's mum who was killed for watching a western movie. Apr 14 2021 www.the-sun.com/news/2698545/kim-jong-un-hitler-nukes-china-enabler/ "Park does not spare any detail of the atrocities and injustices she endured on her journey to freedom. *After watching her friend’s mother publicly executed* and then herself surviving surgery without anaesthetic or painkillers, Park knew she must try and escape." (Yeonmi Park recounts her harrowing journey to freedom at an event hosted by Walk Free and Perth USAsia Centre. 18 FEB 2019 ) www.walkfree.org/news/2019/yeon-mi-reminds-australia-that-our-freedom-isnt-universal/ NOTE : As a bad liar she changes the place of executaion : street va stadium. And the film : South Korean film vs. James Bond film!! Furthermore , she made up another lie in this regard : “There were different levels of punishment,” says Park. “If you were caught with a Bollywood or Russian movie you were sent to prison for three years but if it was South Korean or American you were executed.” www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic
The fact that she has to go on different programs and tell these stories over and over again and has to relive these moments makes my heart ache for her.
@@austincarter8875 right! She has done *more* than her part on behalf this issue, much more. She’s been telling us about this since at least 2014. I remember, vividly, the first I time I watched an interview with her around 2016. It’s time people with the power to change something start to work on this change. I graduated high school in 2015, never really learned much of anything about North Korea. So when rocket man started making threats, I started seeing stories from defectors, I was terrified for these people. It was like my first dose of “real world” problems. It’s stuck with me ever since. I wish I knew how to help.
I feel like her lack of compassion seeing these things was a coping mechanism - there's nothing she can do so there is just acceptance and it becomes her norm. What an incredible woman.
You only have so many fucks to give in life. And when all your fucks are being spent trying to find food and stay alive, well then not much else is gonna matter
It's definitely a coping mechanism. She likely had to compartmentalize a lot just to keep going. Otherwise, the mind would be overwhelmed by the amount of traumatic events she dealt with on a daily basis. It's so sad that those poor people are suffering through all that even now.
This isn't just starvation, this is literally hell on earth. I don't even think a dystopian novel has been written that is this dystopian. This woman is the strongest person I've ever heard speak.
Read The Gulag Archipelago by Soljenitsin. He's able to describe that hell, and goes beyond, laying bare the human soul. You'll see the deepest mechanics of evil and the purest good and nobility that overcomes it.
It's just so incredible to me that she's lived such a horrific life and was adapted to a norm where there was no compassion for death and that misery and she escaped and TRANSCENDED in self-reflection to discover compassion and the details of that misery from an OUTSIDE perspective of what is normal. This woman is ridiculously intelligent.
Your brain can cope with some fucked up shit and still return to normal afterwards if you're put into the right environment. It's a miracle she survived though. Even describing it to outsiders we probably don't understand it's full brutality.
I agree. The whole time I kept thinking, of course it had to feel like nothing to see that. It was your own brain trying to protect you because how else could you have ever escaped without compartmentalizing it like that?
Only God rescue Her..for His Glory She is doing His will..education us spoil People.. Who need to know No complaints here. ALL PRAISES AND GLORY TO GOD...HALLELUJAH
The organ outside the body thing is legit. My aunt once had surgery and her intestines kept popping out when her stitches busted. And we had to put gloves on and literally put it back inside her. I cannot imagine dogs looking at her like a snack, and no one being in a position to help her either. I’m so sorry for these people and what they go through.
@@kowboy702 did I say that anywhere at all? Or was I saying that intestines popping out and putting them back in is a real thing? Don’t try to shade people if you’re stupid, because now you look even dumber.
@@kowboy702 and what does malnutrition = surgery even mean? I can only imagine how far your tired brain cells had to stretch for that reach, because that ish didn’t make any sense…as you tried to insinuate that’s what I meant 😂 are you high?
finally someone wiuth some sense i been reading these comments like how has no one called this woman out for her lies if my gut was hanging out there is no way i am thinking i am hungry , an earthquake breaks out, great time for a sandwich, fucking hell....@@kowboy702
But she literally lied about all this. She's a proven fraud who gets boosted by right wing media. Not to mention how many of her stories blatantly contradict eachother between interviews. As it turns out, hard to keep a story straight when you're utterly full of shit.
As bill burr would say this is what we should be using the word brave for, not fat people, just to liven the mood a bit. But for real she is really a brave woman more then I am.
I agree. Western media has ties to China and thus won’t want to upset them by having content like this. JRE can air stuff like this without worrying about China
@@hamschh what do you want them to do? NK has hundreds of icbm's aimed at Seoul that would level it at a minutes notice. It's mutually assured destruction to have any major conflict between the 2 countries. That's how the countries are able to exist together.
@Stephanie S Come on now that's such a naive way of lookin at things, no matter how you try to rationalize it there is a difference in the degree of suffering, there are people in this world who suffer way more than others, this doesn't mean everyone else's problems aren't real or they aren't allowed to feel bad about them but it can put things into perspective about how we're still lucky in a lot of ways
@@krazat An you were there!?! Her family is probably bitter she became so successful. That didn't occur to you and your leftist propaganda/agenda though, did it!?! Because hateful leftists don't think. They are brain washed hate filled machines hell bent on one mission, destruction of America. Her life is a testament to what a savior & beautiful country this is and saved so many that are thriving Americans today including yourself, unless your Chinese or some foreign bot trolling comments which it seems. I wonder how much you are paid to leave nasty remarks every other comment but it's clearly ineffective. Interesting how the left didn't hate this woman or spread false allegations /slander her, until she spoke in favor of decent values & praising America, our core founding principles & freedoms, etc. Now it's a full fledged criminal harassment campaign to curtail her rights and shut her up, discredit her, it's rather pathetic!! You were not there. None of us were. She speaks of details and genuine quality. There are those that have reason to be bitter and claim ridiculing things against her. Hollywood is the epicenter of embellishment!! Who are you to judge this lady when you have no clue and didn't witness her life unfolding. People can go from being middle class (they weren't "rich" even for NK standards), to dirt poor and starving, that's very easily done in a nation that doesn't recognize human rights. She embodies & symbolizes the essence of what a genius concept America was and it's immense, unique beauty & the gifts it gives to the world and how it's changed world history forever. Many people on this planet sought refuge here and wouldn't have lived had it not been for America to migrate to. Your hate is misdirected. It shows how low the leftists will stoop attacking this girl and only empowers her more and causes many more to pay attention to her message regarding Freedom & Blessings.
Dude all the media outlets got fucking fooled!!! Yes she escaped North Korea but half the shit she says is made up!!! Man these fucking fools are so gullible.
She says her auntie got executed from watching a Bond movie when she gives a speech at EU. Her dead auntie watches South Korean drama when she gives a speech to South Korea. She also accused Mongolian border patrols for undressing her fully naked when Mongolia is highly supportive for these refugees. Then she admitted to lying(oh i forgot it was other patrols blahblah).
Check out the one he did with abby martin and all the war crimes happening in Gaza and all the dead children and how miserable life there is because of the siege its a big open air prison
As a south Korean, this entire story is just unbelievably shocking. This is a true example of how a dictator with a wrong ideology and faith can just fuck up the entire group of people. I am so happy that she got a chance to escape from there, and I believe the stories she deliver will greatly contribute to increasing public's awareness.
The story isn’t true, she’s a liar, everything she’s saying was the story of different defectors, not herself. Her own mother said they never starved because she’s from the political elite of Pyongyang. She’s profiting off of other peoples suffering.
@@BuRsTiNxMLB if she was, why would she run away tho? I mean I know I wouldn’t if I was wealthy and part of the most powerful group in my country where no one could do anything to us. Like why would I want to run away ?
She is so brave, so resilient and so inspirational. And not to mention absolutely breathtaking. Truly horrifying the things she had to endure. It makes me feel so naive trying to wrap my head around how it’s even possible for anyone to survive what she has. And that people are going through that as I type this. I feel so grateful and absolutely humbled by my “first world problems”.
She's full of it. Her own mom said that their life in North Korea always had access to food and even luxuries (by N Korean standards.) Even Yeonmi said she was in the 1% in North Korea when she first was doing publicity but then flipped her story to seem much worse than it was. She's a grifter. Joe and anyone else is truly dumb as bricks to believe that these malnourished people eating rat stew are out there pushing these heavy trains because there's no electricity...
@@BubuH-cq6km so you think North Korea is a paradise oasis and not a communist hell hole. Wow I was so wrong this whole time. Thanks for clarifying that.
Sure because a place can be either a paradise or something out of a badly written horror movie, there's no in-betweens. Then I guess the US is about paradise after all. Joking aside, North Korea can still be bad while her ridicolous stories are obviously made-up.
Working in South Korea in the military you hear stories like this a lot. People are completely clueless when it comes to knowing how bad it really is over there. This is the tip of the iceberg. There are more heartbreaking stories like these than you all can possibly imagine. This woman is so courageous and you can hear the emotion in her voice, even though she was numb to it when she was there she knows now just how awful it really is.
@@mrgiggly21 my parents were CI agents in the army stationed in Korea. They told me stories of North Korean spies hunting down defectors and kidnapping & torturing them on an almost weekly/monthly basis in South Korea. They truly have no limit of their barbaric actions. Even against young women & children who left to the south just for a better life.
@@F80mthree one that’s fucked two can we drop a bomb on em already like just be like ohhh shiny button my bad that sent all the missiles to north korea but ig that would start some big ass war and shit
@@ronronniemeyers bro tbh i’d have to take prolly a week or two break before every vid cuz i’m pretty sure all the shit she’s seen is fucked. ok so i’m from here but parents are from mexico and haven’t personally seen stuff but everybody that i’ve known has and it’s like every now and than not everyday like hers
I have just finished reading Yeonmi's first book and did a search on RUclips. This book is an incredible story and has left me quite shell shocked. What an incredible and brave human being she is.
@@hollymorgan4214she’s a propagandist, shes been caught in many lies over the years. She’s on the Koch brothers is payroll. Think about it, these people are malnourished to the point that you can see their organs but they are also pushing a f-ing train in freezing weather? Have you seen strongmen competitors attempt to move a train? It’s just about impossible. Bodies floating down the river?? Where are all these bodies coming from if there’s so many starving people? I was suspicious the first time I heard her story, I immediately thought of the lies they told during the gulf war. The “Iraqis are taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on the ground” lie. This is all propaganda, it’s pretty obvious to be honest. The American public are very gullible.
@A Blunt Conservative No that's not what the left wants. Stop buying into those talking points. The left wants a free but fair market, where the wealthy pay their fair share and the middle class are being taken care of. We're not out to punish anybody for being successful. Demanding a better healthcare system and protection from being ripped off at work is not communism. A robust social support system is what Sweden, Norway, France and Germany... already have. That's NOT communism.
Nobody knew the reasons why people were taken away. But it could affect everyone. Therefore, in every house, for such an occasion, a bag with essentials was hung by the door. Once they came for me. As a teacher, I was taken to the camp to teach Chinese and teach propaganda songs to prisoners. The cell had a concrete floor, walls and five video cameras on the ceiling. 20 people huddled on 16 square meters. The prisoners were wearing uniforms and handcuffs. They were all shaved baldly. In the camp, I also worked in a hospital, where I witnessed how prisoners were given medicines unnecessarily, maybe experiments were being carried out to, for example, make women infertile. At one of the meetings, she witnessed how the guards raped a young woman in front of 200 prisoners. Anyone who showed sympathy for her himself became the object of humiliation and torture in a "black" room with an electric chair, where I was also tortured until I lost consciousness. Since I visited the camp, sometimes I cannot even climb onto the bed myself. In the cell, I slept too long on the cold concrete floor, and now I have rheumatism. At 43, I became a sick person, although I was completely healthy before the camp, ”says the book“ Die Kronzeugin ”(The Main Witness) by German writer Alexandra Kavelius and Sairagul Sauytbai about the“ camps ”in Xinjiang. Quanguo has turned the entire region into a police state with checkpoints between cities and within cities - between districts, with a network of cameras with facial recognition, with mandatory ID scanning to enter houses and shopping centers. Everywhere - policemen in uniform and civilian clothes. Forced organ harvesting in China is carried out in relation to representatives of ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities detained in different regions, and they are often not told the reasons for detention or there is no arrest warrant, "- says the conclusion of 12 experts, the most popular organs for seizure are the heart , kidneys, liver and cornea of the eye, and this measure is applied to members of the banned Falun Gong movement, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians.
My god. This poor girl. I cannot consciously comprehend the trauma. You can tell she is heavily traumatized. Im so sorry for what is happening in North Korea. Save these human beings... It's not fair because they grew up there and they can almost never leave. A very few percentage of people escape.
Hyeonseo Lee, a high profile North Korean defector, who was a dear friend of Yeonmi Park has double-defected back to North Korea. So, we can assume that a lot these North Korean defectors stories are just fabrication to get sponsored by Western Christian charities
@@Steveinthailand Not sure where you get your information from but Hyeonseo has not defected back to NK... She's still living in South Korea. We can not assume NK defectors are just looking for charities. People like you can assume that.
*DANCING INTO THE TUNE OF THIS WOMAN : Trash propaganda produced for imperialism and profit.* Yeonmi Park is an actress hired by the US deep state and she has just proven her usefulness , they would likely prefer a more coherent testimonial, but as long as the sheeple eat it up .... . This young lady is being used by political organizations to fearmonger, with an agenda at play here . If you believe all her stories, you are either naive or simple too stupid. There is no way of getting almost any reliable information about North Korea, due to their heavy isolation. Or if there is sources, they are from South Korean and USA media, which either guess or invent things. She's an actor and this channel is meant for spreading American anti-communist propaganda, she is just a Yankee paid liar, the worst is that she does the actor thing very well. Because someone pays money to them and educate them how to speak in public. A VERY well paid North Korean defector. The CIA has directly funded stuff like this before, why do you uncritically trust in it? Again what if the real reason these people can't keep their stories straight is because they are liars and frauds motivated by the desire to obtain money and publicity? Or alternatively, what if they work for some organization or agency hostile to the DPRK, like the CIA, or the Adam Smith Institute? She's supported by the SK intelligence agency to tell a horrific story. It gets policy makers and the international community to sanction NK. Her story has been debunked. She does it for the fame and attention. This is really no different than the story of WMDs, babies thrown from incubators in Kuwait. She gotten a lot of mileage out of this shame. There's a reason viewers are attracted to crazy bizarre exposures about North Korea, regardless of if they're actually true or not. That woman appeared on Valuetainment, Lex Friedman, & Joe Rogan at around the same time (classic fake propaganda spouted by that annoying puppet lyce ducet. This would have been *carefully orchestrated from the beginning making sure the defector had been paid handsomely to tell her lies about the DPRK.* ). Nothing wrong with interviewing people, her claims were accepted without any skepticism on all those shows. If you watch subsequent Joe Rogan episodes, he uses this sleezy interview as "evidence" to push his "China is evil" argument (ie. war with China). Lex Friedman could care less about American-induced famine in Yemen & economic sanctions on poor countries, but started crying & using her claims of famine as proof Kim Jung Un was "evil" (ie. no peace deals with Asians). It's sad because this submissive shilling undermines their claims of being "independent". Controversy sells, but he is missing the point of what the true face of imperialism really is. It is typical behavior from people of settler colonist nations. Little culture means little acceptance of what's going on in the world. The more sensationalist lies that she tells will bring her more profit, though she’s taking a risk by becoming less believable and triggering more people to see through her bullshit with each story she tells. She’s truly a despicable soulless demon whose only real interests in life are money and plastic surgery.
I saw Joe do stand up live last night, the day after he did this podcast with her. He went OFF on communism, the CCP and authoritarianism; more so than I have ever heard him articulate. You can tell this podcast impacted him deeply.
@James Thompson I’ve been a libertarian for years, and i can still tell how much of a moron you are by comparing Sanders to a full blown north korean authoritarian regime. Sanders is not an authoritarian nor is he a communist.
@James Thompson lol Sanders votes like a capitalist. It really doesn't matter what he says or what you think he is. His voting record looks the same as Nancy "we are capitalists" Pelosi. Bernies party is paid for by corporations(capitalist) and bernie made a mill selling his book(capitalist). He told people to vote for biden(capitalist). If you believe Bernie is a socialist or communist then I have a bridge to sell you and the rest of the libertarians in their confirmation biased information bubble.
I just finished this entire podcast. One of his best interviews/conversations to date. People need to wake up soon. Keep going Joe!!! Never stop what you do
@@nicolasrios7382 no, they're authoritarian but they started as communist. Far right Authoritarian regimes don't care about brainwashing the citizens, they just do it and don't care how you feel about it. NK still brainwashes like a cult. It's easier to keep control of the citizens.
"North Korea was like the Hunger Games. When I read the book the Hunger Games I was like oh my god this person copied North Korea". Wow that hits deep for me. Imagine your everyday existence being like the Hunger Games. Yeonmi is a very strong, intelligent, & unstoppable force. She is so inspiring to me I am grateful she did this interview with Joe.
It is pretty funny she says that. You know she had an appearance on a South Korean show where her mother said she thought everyone was lying on that show about North Korea and started making up stuff to go along with the show right? She's doing the same thing with the Hunger Games here, just finding some fiction and then attributing it to her life to profit off of gullible people. It's pretty well documented how she's a narcissist and a liar.
@@superobotmonkey It's crazy. The whole Yeonmi Park thing feels to me like a critique of American society and the effectiveness of it's propaganda more than any revelations about life inside North Korea.
@@Alexander_Grant she seems like a tool for modern American propaganda "men are being attacked for being men" then basically saying we should be complacent with our current overlords because other countries have it worse. America #1🙄
A lot of people don’t realize not only what goes on in North Korea but after the Korean War, South Korea was in a similar state, I only know this because that my mother and her family grew up poor. I feel like no nation with the amount of wealth that is out there should have to go through shit like this. Like why are we fighting instead of feeding people?
@Kwame Nkruma it's unfortunate but her story has changed drastically over time -- this is not at all to say she and her family didn't suffer or that north koreans as a whole are not suffering tremendously, but this woman's credibility should be very low by now from a journalistic standpoint.
I'm currently bulkin up to get bigger and stronger, eating so much I feel like I am about to thorw up sometimes, because that's just how the gym goes. Watching this made my feel like a fucking shithead. Sometimes we just don't know how lucky we are.
In the last two years, I gained a ton of weight after a breakup, job loss and life issues, I think what a privilege it is to have such problems. Wow! She is phenomenal. Humbling.
@@calmingbabysleep1256 Yes sir, we all have problems though, an Elephant has Elephant problems and an ant has ant problems. Which doesn't mean they are not important, take care men and if you need any help just dm me. In words of Mr. Goggins: Stay Hard!
*"How can anyone think this clown is telling the truth."* Yeonmi is a paid, celebrity "witness." The Diplomat did a write up of her about how her stories do not line up, and they have the receipts. It’s is fabricated, unfortunately. I know that perspective is difficult and unfair, it seems, but that’s the point of such a story perfectly tuned over time to appeal to your emotions. If you need more proof look at the Greyzone video with Max Blumenthal, and another further report he did previously. There is a literal TV program in South Korea where North Korean defectors compete with their lavishly embellished escape stories to win.. it’s a game show. Yeonmi Park has personally made almost $1,000,000 telling her story. Her story changes massively. One of the most crucial changes in her story from the initial tv interview is that her father was initially with her when she left N.K.. later she said it was only her mom that was with her, in order to weave in the part where her mom is raped to save her from that assault- a much more heart-wrenching progression. Says she was poor but slips up by saying she grew up with her mum having chanel handbags🥴....how can anyone think this clown is telling the truth. Anything she says is suspect, as she could easily be grifting Rightwing media. The story is she stole other defectors stories. She was a high ranking person in DPRK (according to one version they claimed) and did escape (probably through bribes). She steals other people’s stories to make her story sound more sensational. you will always see someone trying to be over dramatic and get attention and fame by making the story 100 times worst. Did she go through horrible things? We don't know. Did she use other peoples stories and exploit them as her own? Yes, 100 percent. She's definitely from North Korea and she definitely "escaped" but I'm pretty sure she's laying the story on thick because her whole career depends on it. It's her livelihood. She's Korean Elizabeth Holmes. She arrived here in South Korea and used the refugee system in every way, got free education, numerous plastic surgeries including breast implants, appeared on TV to find a rich man, failed, then rehearsed years for the show targeting foreign countries. Even in the DPRK itself she acted and behaved like a spoiled criminal individual, so it's just natural she bragged about it in corrupt, americanized South Korean reality shows, and even more in the US itself. No surprise... However, she does need to be exposed, and the way to do that is to present actual evidence of her family and individual past in the DPRK, her path in South Korea and her natural puppet role in the service of US propaganda in exchange for the fame and money she always craved. Very simple. They never escaped to Mongolia. Her mother never raped, and they were never kidnapped/captured as sex-slaves! And her father never was or died in China! The whole story/ her book is pure fabrication. She lied about her father's death, and got exposed by North Korean government, so she had to admit it (in silence! few people were paying attention to it). Here you go : "But North Korean government came after me and described me that I didn't suffering in North Korea and also they said that my father died in North Korea not in China, and they say that I was an very ambitious girl because he gripping ambitious extremely bad thing and they say you are an ambitious girl, and your father was a bad person, and your mom was immoral person...........But they didn't really come up with a like big thing *except my father died in North Korea* and my father's ashes were in China, and my mother went to China a few months ago and brought my father's ashes to South Korea." (ReasonTV : In Order to Live: Yeonmi Park's North Korean Defector Story Nov 13, 2015) 18:30 ruclips.net/video/cjE7apYAdBM/видео.html
*The market is huge for stories about NK that fit a certain narrative pushed by the imperialists* She seems compromised…… a CIA asset? She’s playing the game quite well. If you’re a minority who looks conventionally attractive and says the same talking points, the GOP and institutional right will hire them on the spot. There's an article about her from 2014 about her contradictions on the diplomat. Now the excuse made then was, Her language barrier with english. The problem with that statement is she told the same lies in Korean on South Korean TV which baffled the host of the show. The best part is she did a full 180 and when investigated, her real story came out. On a South Korean TV show Park Yeonmi told the audience that her family was doing extremely well and that her mother was wearing pants that ‘were all imported from Japan’ and added, ‘My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea.’ They didn't ask her to play any role, that's why it was a shocker to the South Korean public, She did a 180 on what they expected. They never propped her up to be privileged, that crap came out of her mouth after she became famous. So doing a 180 and asking your mom on networked TV "Am I really North Korean, these other people seem poor"!!! *But after she started being coached by a Seoul-based American anti-DPRK think tank Freedom Factory along with other right wing/pro imperialist Think Tanks / NGO's (Atlas Network, Oslo Freedom Forum, Human Right Fundation, etc) who hired/paid/taught her what kind of horror stories she should tell about the DPRK, her narrative completely changed.* That’s when she started claiming she was so poor that she had to survive eating grass, that she saw dead bodies floating in North Korean rivers (where she previously said to have had fun together with her friends), promoting how she was starved while saying she never was poor? and other gibberish. The host lost his composure and looked confused AF. Then having her mom says "oh those stories of her eating grass ect that never happened." HuH??? was the whole crowd, audience and hosts. She then became the media darling for several years and her new narrative turned out to be very lucrative for her. I also noticed that she talks a lot of crap about South Korea and says that she moved to America because they were oppressing her there. I think they were just catching on to her BS and she had to try lower hanging fruit -
To be fair a lot of defectors struggle in South Korea due to discrimination, economic and social problems, etc. a fair amount even want to return to North Korea, and some have. However, I highly doubt Yeonmi faced anything remotely oppressive in South Korea, being a rich girl funded by every alphabet agency in America. It’s likelier that she said something stupid, the South Korean media picked up on it, called her out on her bullshit, and asked her who her CIA handlers are South Korea tends to be sympathetic towards North Korean defectors, especially if they are ardently anti-North Korea. However, Yeonmi’s story is so full of holes that the South Koreans do not take her seriously, nor do they respect her. *All she seems to do is make up grandiose stories to get more clickbait, and to promote a neocon agenda,* rather than actually helping North Korean refugees. Other defectors want nothing to do with her, and she has been reduced to making all of her content in English because she knows that no Koreans will ever take her seriously again, and that only Americans will believe anything she says (much like they believed Saddam ground people into burgers with a meat grinder and had nukes pointed at America). The money is to good to pass up, even if that means lying and embellishments. She is not the first to sell out, but so much was learned from watching her blatantly lie and try to cry without crying throughout the whole show. In a way it's good to have a liar on record when she gets exposed again.
This is one of the reasons I feel horrible for wasting food, just knowing that there is someone out there in the world who would do anything for my scraps of food just breaks me.
It's so tough to think of it... I see some of my friends chuck away food because they are full and I have to bite my tongue.. I guess it's a side effect of good living... People really are disconnected
No! We are too worried about billionaires flying their own personal spaceships into space. Forget about the fact that there are over 30 million starving fellow human beings.
Call it what it is. The most loudicrous bs I ever heard. "Mountain of bodies in hospitals eaten by rats, rats then eaten by kids, kids to hen for, and them eaten by rats too.." Come on ..what are you? 5?
Well, my unpopular opinion is that we, as western countries stop sanctioning North Korea. I understand their government is unstable, but the citizens are the ones suffering the most. Threats of war has driven them war crazed!
It's so heartbreaking to think that everyone who knew this brave woman even her old neighbours have now disappeared to concentration camps and worse. Her story comes at a human cost and needs to be heard.
@@markg9749 So is China's Xi but we are in bed with him. So is the Saudi prince...same for him...see how this works? Pre-sanctions, his father was also a dictator, but his people were not starving! Starvation is a direct impact of US sanctions!
Uncommon amongst uncommon women. Yeonmi park’s story is a must for everyone to hear. Keep in mind she started to learn english 5-6 years ago. That’s mind blowing in and of itself.
We don't know what a priviledge life we are living until you hear about another person's experience. I am in tears just listening to her life's experience and what she and many others have to go through just to survive.
She probably didn’t feel compassion not because she lacks it, but because her whole life shes been in survival mode. What a horrific story to hear though. It makes me appreciate my life here in the USA more 🙏🏼♥️✨
@@fdr100100 the stupidity in youtube comment sections is usually mindblowing but what you said is just outright insane. Those mental gymnastics would put a downsyndrome spiderman to shame
I'm disgusted at our world leaders, no one is calling for Kim and his fellow leaders of the regime to be tried and executed for crimes against humanity.
@@Chris971. She grew up during the North Korean Famine of 1994-98+ when up to 3.5 million people died and everyone was starving because the country simply didn't have close to enough food. A fictional story about that would be to claim that she didn't see frozen bodies in the streets
I normally listen to these podcasts when I’m driving, and once I finish an episode I go about my day. Not this one. This one left such an impact on me that words cannot describe. People NEED to hear her story. It needs to be spread like wildfire.
She is a pathological liar.For money of course. There is an actual video clip of her mother from a Korean show that she admits they were never hungry, or she doesn't understand where these rumors of famine came about as soon he never seen anything to allude to that, thus she doesn't believe they are true.In her presence! But the daughter learned she can make a career out of saying the most loudicrous things to gullible Americans like you. Don't forget to buy her book and make a donation.
@@parapoliticos52 Yeah yeah anything that goes against the Liberal narrative is all propaganda, lies, conspiracies. Even if she lied, she’s bring attention to the atrocities North Korea and China are doing to their own people. Now go back into your scared little bubble ok? Thanks
Hi Yeonmi! Thank you for all the work you do, your message is so important just like your story. I am so sorry the horrors you and your people have lived thru and are currently living through; I don't understand why these atrocities and crimes against humanity have gone on so long and are still going on?!
I could hear the pain in her voice and feel like this is the best work Joe has ever done. Every American needs to hear her story. I pray that things will change. It’s truly disgusting that people live like this.
This is a tough watch but also an eye opener…Thank you Yeonmi Park you are incredibly brave! Puts into perspective how lucky we are in the western world.
A complete lie. Her mother told in an interview that they never starved. She is one of those priveledged NKs escaped to have more pleasure. If you wanna hear the horrors of NK she will tell you all the lies. Hear the real story from real people.
@@Underground.Rabbit North koreans starve for food and don't even know it, while you starve for attention and know about it. which one is a worse curse.
"I don't know how I felt nothing at that point." That does not make you a bad person. It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Your blessings are greater now. You can think beyond your own survival, and help others. Thank you for sharing your painful stories. Bless your soul!
Dear lord after this podcast I will never complain about my life ever again I am truly beyond terrified and in shock smh she is literally a strong individual 😥❤️
Don't vote democrat, or it'll be like that here, don't believe me, look at Chicago, California, Baltimore, Portland & NYC there's poop, aids needles and crazy method out bums everywhere followed by plagues and then death/economic collapse....now while looking at those areas which have been voting blue forever, look also at any red state in comparison and if that don't wake you up then you're beyond hope and natural selection is coming for you...
I know NK is poorer than most countries because of sanctions. However there is no such thing as mountain of dead bodies everywhere like this dumb podcast and defector tales are trying to convey. You can literally look up real footage of north korea from channels like SAO documentary and matt travels. Most of north korea looks better run than most liberal cities in America like san Francisco and downtown la with homeless crisis and poop everywhere on the streets.
@@jonathanroberts2612 Have you been to North Korea? No? Then stfu. There's documentaries and "literal footage" of San Francisco that make it look like a paradise. If your objective is to make it look good then you can make anything look good.
@@jonathanroberts2612 The North Korean government doesn’t allow for you to take videos unless it’s what they allow you to this is someone that’s been in the struggle and knows and North Korean government are trying to paint themselves as a paradise but it’s hell you go live there and keep the same opinion
Complaining isn’t completely bad it’s just normal and it’s perfectly fine to complain about some parts of your life because we all have problems but there are definitely people out there with larger problems, I wouldn’t say your lucky for how your life is now where you live nor would I say you don’t have a right to complain about some parts of your life sometimes, your born in a normal life which is how society should be, just some people are born unlucky and born in literally hell, we need everyone to live a normal life because everyone deserves a normal life, it shouldn’t be lucky to just get a normal life and so I won’t call it lucky because we all deserve a normal life
@@onefortheroad6186 And why are they that way? Are they genetically any different from their parents? Or did they get raised by screens and endless propaganda? Whose fault is that? They're still Americans. We failed them. We all shat on the same toilet seat here.
Also, I am homeless in the United States, I work every day, and luckily I make just enough to stay in a hotel every night and eat once a day. But if I had to see what she has seen, I don’t think I could go on, knowing that people would be walking over my dead body while carrying on a conversation and not affecting them at all. Especially just looking at a young kid like that and that situation. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel lucky being able to eat once a day and most of the time having a bed but still no health insurance. I can’t imagine everything that she has seen. It’s sickening.
As a homeless person, please consider what she is saying and learn media literacy. Your own government does not give a shit about you and the media regularly shits on you, there are people in this country that want you dead. You are being denied a basic human right, while your own fucking government is paying this girl a fuck ton of money to spread propaganda that is easily debunked with basic facts. This is being used as a distraction so people won't think about the horrific conditions in our country, something directly affecting you.
Real life often makes horror movies look like the cartoon network. Glad she made out but great sympathy and prayer to those still live in north Korea. Lets face it , most of us can't do anything. It's not like u can start a go fund me page or something.
Man, this made me realize that we Americans are fortunate for everything we have. We probably won't face anything near what she had witnessed for 13 years. By far Joe's most intense episode I've seen.
We could if we continue to think everything sucks here and we give more power to those "leading the country." I came here to escape poverty and violence, and it drives me crazy how people can't see how wonderful it is here. It needs to be preserved and built up, not given away or "changed." That "change" might not be what you think, just ask Lex Fridman.
we are not fortunate at all we fought bleed and died for every progress we have made we the people built this great place our grandparents and forefathers before this suffered and had hardships so that we would not it was not given to any of us it was built up bought and paid for with blood sweat and tears. when you understand that you will get why when that flag waves millions of us will die before we ever see it fall. the truth is their people have never known better and the only way they will get freedom is with a bloody revolution and maybe with a little help they too will pay the price it takes to live in a world that we do but it doesnt come free freedom isnt free. the thought of freedom is the only thing free to become free the rest is paid for with honor blood and hardships just like all places that obtain freedom. the people have to do it theirselves we have learned our lessons interfering with it once in Korea and vietnam and agian in the middle east the truth is some people like the thought of freedom but dont want to pay for the admission of it.
Michael Scott Moore was intense too. But she's incredibly strong. I'd be worried speaking publicly about this but she doesn't care she's getting awareness out there for what goes on in China and North Korea
This was one that NEEDED to be on RUclips. Everyone needs to see this full interview. Absolutely horrifying. I was crying at work from listening to this.
Jordan Peterson interviewed her about a month ago and was crying for half the podcast. It’s a tragic reality that unfortunately most people never escape.
I rarely comment on videos but as an Indian engineering student I know how blessed and fortunate I really am and how trivial my complaints are when there are human beings like u suffering through this. U r really inspiring especially the way u self reflect presently as an adult on those experiences as a child and where u r now... Kudos..🙌
Please read her book, I'm not shilling for her, I'd happily send you my copy. It's a quick read with more humor and humanity than we'd have any right to expect. And unlike MILLIONS before her and Millions right now, she made it out.
This is the first time I have ever commented on a RUclips video, but wow. How as world we have turned a blind eye to this for so long. God bless this woman and her family. She is the truest example of the resilience of the human spirit I’ve ever heard about. I can only hope this podcast goes viral and we all wake up and demand something be done before this people are wiped off the planet. Great job Joe, this is will undoubtedly be the most significant interview if your career. Truly the Powerful JRE.
We haven’t turned a blind eye that’s thing. we really haven’t known the severity of the situation for all that long when you think about it, because everything that’s comes out of North Korea is controlled by one man and no one else. Makes it a lot harder as well when he’s threatening the countries with nuclear war that threaten him, or his regime, and when trump threatened to “totally wipe them of the map” everybody made it out to be trump trying to start a war and blaming it on his ego, but when In reality he isn’t the one with millions of starving people under his power! It’s not as easy as going over there and giving them food and everything will be fine it’s a lot more complicated than that 🤷♂️
@@minority86 It's NOT up to the United States to take care of N. Korea. But it's up to us to understand this is where the Democratic Party wants to take us!
@Artistic IntentionZ that statement you made "changed your life" is almost exact how her story hit me when I first heard it last year in the height of covid on valuetainment pod cast. I say almost cause not sure it changed my life but it sure put my mind on other stuff besides my petty problems. And more to being a hill billy from TN that's has taken my/our way of life for granted for almost 50 years.
One time I was on a train. And the train broke down. So we had to push the train. Then we were so hungry after pushing the train and couldn’t find even one single rat. And we had to eat the train.
This is one of the most important and heartfelt JRE podcast I have listened to that I can recall. I hope everyone can please find the time to listen to the podcast in it's entirety.
Appreciate every penny. Appreciate every drop of water. Appreciate everything good in your life that you have been blessed with having because there are many people out there who are not fortunate enough to have what you have. For this reason alone, treating those things without respect and appreciation is a terrible thing to do.
*The market is huge for stories about NK that fit a certain narrative pushed by the imperialists* She seems compromised…… a CIA asset? She’s playing the game quite well. If you’re a minority who looks conventionally attractive and says the same talking points, the GOP and institutional right will hire them on the spot. There's an article about her from 2014 about her contradictions on the diplomat. Now the excuse made then was, Her language barrier with english. The problem with that statement is she told the same lies in Korean on South Korean TV which baffled the host of the show. The best part is she did a full 180 and when investigated, her real story came out. On a South Korean TV show Park Yeonmi told the audience that her family was doing extremely well and that her mother was wearing pants that ‘were all imported from Japan’ and added, ‘My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea.’ They didn't ask her to play any role, that's why it was a shocker to the South Korean public, She did a 180 on what they expected. They never propped her up to be privileged, that crap came out of her mouth after she became famous. So doing a 180 and asking your mom on networked TV "Am I really North Korean, these other people seem poor"!!! *But after she started being coached by a Seoul-based American anti-DPRK think tank Freedom Factory along with other right wing/pro imperialist Think Tanks / NGO's (Atlas Network, Oslo Freedom Forum, Human Right Fundation, etc) who hired/paid/taught her what kind of horror stories she should tell about the DPRK, her narrative completely changed.* That’s when she started claiming she was so poor that she had to survive eating grass, that she saw dead bodies floating in North Korean rivers (where she previously said to have had fun together with her friends), promoting how she was starved while saying she never was poor? and other gibberish. The host lost his composure and looked confused AF. Then having her mom says "oh those stories of her eating grass ect that never happened." HuH??? was the whole crowd, audience and hosts. She then became the media darling for several years and her new narrative turned out to be very lucrative for her. I also noticed that she talks a lot of crap about South Korea and says that she moved to America because they were oppressing her there. I think they were just catching on to her BS and she had to try lower hanging fruit -
To be fair a lot of defectors struggle in South Korea due to discrimination, economic and social problems, etc. a fair amount even want to return to North Korea, and some have. However, I highly doubt Yeonmi faced anything remotely oppressive in South Korea, being a rich girl funded by every alphabet agency in America. It’s likelier that she said something stupid, the South Korean media picked up on it, called her out on her bullshit, and asked her who her CIA handlers are South Korea tends to be sympathetic towards North Korean defectors, especially if they are ardently anti-North Korea. However, Yeonmi’s story is so full of holes that the South Koreans do not take her seriously, nor do they respect her. *All she seems to do is make up grandiose stories to get more clickbait, and to promote a neocon agenda,* rather than actually helping North Korean refugees. Other defectors want nothing to do with her, and she has been reduced to making all of her content in English because she knows that no Koreans will ever take her seriously again, and that only Americans will believe anything she says (much like they believed Saddam ground people into burgers with a meat grinder and had nukes pointed at America). The money is to good to pass up, even if that means lying and embellishments. She is not the first to sell out, but so much was learned from watching her blatantly lie and try to cry without crying throughout the whole show. In a way it's good to have a liar on record when she gets exposed again.
She's on JRE podcast (and others)...in the States...well fed and safe. Nevermind her (mascara, lipstick, fashionable). Consider all the people left behind, under the Kim regime, right now.
Push the train..that was my favourite next to the walking begging kid with his intestines out of his body dragging Them behind like a tail. Shows you how stupid people really are. Pushing a train..a machine that weights 5 000 tones(with wagons).That's like 1000 M1a tanks. And we haven't factor the friction with the rails. PUSHING A TRAIN! Good god the world is doomed.
Very much agreed; especially with how vast Joe's audience is. This woman is truly courageous, and her story needs to be heard. I truly can't even comprehend a nightmare like that. One of the comments above from @ThePortraitArt really nailed it on the head: "real life often makes horror movies look like cartoon network." And he's exactly right. Her book will definitely resonate with a large group, but if there is a way for this podcast to be published in its entirety, I could see it sparking something bigger.
@@MetalBaller83 her story of LIES she's already been debunked by reputable news sources EVEN other N Korean Defectors are calling 🐮💩on her story especially since she keeps changing her story a sign of a LIAR
@@BubuH-cq6km I didn’t know that. I just saw this one interview; I didn’t go any deeper on it. Even though she may be a liar with this particular story, the fact remains that these kinds of horrible things do still happen in North Korea. It’s a shame that nothing can really be done about it, and it doesn’t help if those who do escape aren’t truthful about their experiences.
I knew Joe would get her on the show, incredible and insane story, her story and Francis’s story are probably the most life changing stories ever told in the history of JRE. It goes to show how much we take for granted in the country where we can have normal lives.
I think the most crushing realization while listening to this podcast was that her life was “normal” too. Normal for the people of North Korea. I had no clue about how brutal the living conditions are over there 😔
Venezuelan here. It's so incredible how these types of government operate so alike. It's like a script they have. We're just lucky our nightmare began when there was already internet available, otherwise, it would be the exact same thing.
What is it like in Venezuela these days? Has the situation improved somewhat or have things gotten worse over the last year? I'm really sorry for what you are going through, it's so unjust!
My stupid professor was ranting about how amazing Hugo Chavez was and how he's a hero. Look at Venezuela and communism now. Same with USSR, Cuba, and Mao's China. Complete idiot.
@@katharina... It’s always getting worse, today the dictator announced they would be getting rid of 6 more zeros from the local currency. Overall it’s a greatly complicated situation, just thankful it’s not as bad as what’s described in this podcast at least (as of now).
@@dserenity69 Hugo Chavez was just a puppet of Castro and basically gave the country to Cuba. Sadly, if you don’t experience it yourself, you won’t really know. Hell, I know people that doesn’t have anything to eat because of the situation and still support Chavez. It’s crazy.
And we should all try our best so that our kids can have the same thought in the future. [Don't make this some political point when it is about trying to not become debilitatingly cynical.]
Hearing this reminds me of how fortunate I am to live in such comfort. The potential of human indifference within such poverty can lead to such abhorrent conditions it's hard to imagine 😔
We have cities putting spikes on the ground and other flat surfaces to deter homeless a place to sleep out of the weather. We are not that far behind NK. Just look at what the last pReSiDenT mustered up and had attack our capitol. Our propaganda machines need to be put in check or we are right on path to being NK.
This is probably one of the most powerful interviews Joe has given. This young American lady speaks the truth. We should listening and take her words, before everything goes to SHIT!
@@Dreikoo Still american in my book. I hope she feels that way too. Like just Imagine the pain of being from a place so dead and rotten that you can't even have any pride in calling it home. Sad shit, feel for the poor girl.
Do you really believe that a boy has its intestines out of his body like a tale while begging for food? Amazing! Are you a bot or plainly intoxicated by those fake Mellons as bad you aren't paying attention to the incredulous nonsense this hack is spouting
This is by far one of the most insane interviews I’ve heard in a long time. Glad Yeonmi is still speaking side of her story of her over coming so many obstacles and still be here to share it. Update: Chinese/North Koreans bot have invaded my comment section. Feel free to ignores those since it’s SOOOOO FUCKING obvious who they are.
Not to say North Korea is not messed up but I don’t believe this lady. As someone who speaks English as second language, her English is just too perfect given the time when she started learning the language. Google it, there are inconsistencies in her stories as she keeps changing the details over the time. Like when she said she escaped without her dad, in other interview she said she escaped with her mom and dad etc. Other defectors also said her stories are exaggerated. Idk, I would take what she said with a grain of salt. If her stories are true, then north korea is hell on earth, and the leaders need to be assassinated.
@@hendilim4757 If I recall her story, she claims to have escaped and returned, therefore escaping multiple times. That could be one reason for some discrepancy for instance dad vs mom&dad. As to her English, it has improved greatly, I've heard her on some other videos where it's hard to even understand her, at least to my ear, and her vocabulary has improved too not just her pronunciation.
@Kwame Nkruma hey if i had been through whay she been i be the same. Hell American women do it and they havent been trough anything close to what she has seen
Just listened to the entire podcast and when Ms. Park said her son being born in the United States was like winning the lottery, brought a tear to my eye. Joe I think Ms Park is one of the strongest warriors you have ever had on. Exceptional podcast. May her father rest in peace and my our country go back to what she envisioned in her dark times. So thankful she's an American now.
@@sirenwavemtv8334 becoming a citizen, that’s how you become an American, not just been born, I’m so grateful to have come here 16y ago. I don’t even pass for a mill of she went thru but I know how great is this place.
Check out the one he did with abby martin and the miserable life people live in Gaza It's petty similar too Probably the worst place to live in after north korea
@@sadeksama5057 not the same. Gaza borders both Egypt(largest muslim arab nation in the world) and jewish muslim mixed Israel of wich both are much more open and individualistic than NKs neighbour China. None of the countries want anything to do with ultra nationalistic zealous Hamas.
@@DeVill3007 @Jennifer Delgado I live in Moscow near the North Korean embassy. I remember walking from school to my home and I had to cross the street where on the other side the North Korean embassy is. Before crossing over I see these two short men wearing identical clothes and looking around walking towards the crosswalk. I knew immediately they were North Korean and I confirmed this because I watched them walk into the embassy. When I stood next to them what waiting at the traffic light they took two steps back from me. I was 16 at the time and they looked middle aged but we're much shorter. I can't imagine what you have to do in order to work abroad as a North Korean diplomat in Russia which is a free country.
@@dragospahontu Seriously... How would Kim Jong Un trust them enough to leave the country...? Know what I mean? Maybe they are too brainwashed to disobey? *(edit)* How is living in Moscow by the way?
I have a big... BIG... BIIIIGGGGG... muscles!!! HAHAHA!!! What did you think I was going for? That's so DIRTY of you! GAGAGAGA!!! I am the funniest RUclipsr ever! Maybe that's the reason why I have TWO (!!!) HOT (!) GIRLFRIENDS. Thanks for being alive, dear he
This story shook me. As a child growing up I listened to my grandpa talk about the horrors of the Korean War. The last days of his life he wanted closure from that war and it always made me feel helpless to his war effort. Imagine nothing changes even after the most bloody war in history, that most never known! There has to be an end.
Without a doubt North Korea is an oppressive hell hole, but Yeonmi Park is not considered a reliable source on the matter. She repeatedly contradicts herself and other defectors have plainly stated that her stories are often exaggerations or just downright fabrications. Yeonmi Park herself has had to retract a lot of her own claims, stating that it was due to poor memory because she was very young (she defected when she was 13 years old) or because of language barriers. Initially upon converting to Christianity, she claimed that her escape from North Korea involved climbing tall mountains in freezing -40 degree Celcius without any winter clothing and that she managed to do so because of the warmth and love of Jesus Christ. Of course it turns out there aren't any mountains between where she lived and China, it's mostly flat. She then said what she meant was that they had to climb over hills and didn't know the word for hills in English... but this contradicts the fact that she made those same claims in Korean, her native language. Her own mother, who defected with her, has come out and said that many things that Yeonmi claims are just untrue, such as that she witnessed a public execution of her best friend's mother for watching James Bond (which never happened and Yeonmi has had to retract that statement), that she was forced to eat grass due to starvation (her mom says that was never the case and that their family was actually well off, at least by North Korean standards) and overall just other bogus claims that are not only unsubstantiated by other defectors, but often times contradict her own claims and can verifiably be debunked. So why would she fabricate this? Because she is being incentivized to do so by right-wing think tanks (such as the Atlas Foundation) who are using her as a pretty and innocent face to spread propaganda that left leaning politics will result in a North Korean style authoritarianism. Why should we care if some of what she's saying is exaggerated? Surely North Korea is a horrible place, so what if she's taking certain liberties? Because she's not the only defector, but she's one of the few defectors anyone will listen to because she's willing to bend the truth, create a sensational story that causes the audience to suspend critical thinking, and then when the audience is in a heavy emotional state, push the political agenda that she is being funded to promote. The sad truth is that unless people are willing to create heavily sensationalized narratives of their experience, then no one really bothers to listen to them, so the only people who get attention are the ones willing to play loose with the truth.
Thank you for your kind support everyone ♥️
Stay strong.
Thank you for what you do, we need to get these fascist authoritarians out before they do too much damage
God bless you
Bless you for your strength to go on.
Thank you for bringing this info to ignorant fools like me 🙏 and helping me better my perspective
if i ever feel like complaining about my own life,i will come back to this clip. absolutely heartbreaking
I hate when people complain about relatively minor things and then say "my suffering is important, it's not a competition". They just need to think about the positives and how lucky we are to be born in our situations, and to make the best of it.
Everyone who has a right to complain, knows that it could be worse.
@@mikeskirk same
Yeah, great food and sports and a good childhood is more than enough
Yeah I hear you
Yes. This makes me practice gratitude.
I thought I was having a bad day until I watched this and realized my day went just fine and I should be thankful.
Plus her shirts pretty much see through. I don't know if it's that black Victoria's secret for all making her puppies look that good or she just has some real nice ta tas
@@robertstone9988 *Seriously?* With all of the terrible things she's talking about, you still can't help to comment on her "ta tas"?
There's a time and place for everything. This isn't the time or place for comments like that. _You must be an incel._
Same James, same.
Same, the problem I was obsessing over just got a lot smaller
@@YeshuaDisciple916 no I just really appreciate a nice set of breasteses. If the role was reversed and I was given a speech about the Holocaust or something but I was wearing see-through white leggings but no underwear on I'm pretty sure everybody would be focusing in on my schlong. Matter of fact that's hilarious I wish I could just go around giving super serious speeches about super serious things wearing white see-through leggings and no underwear and just being like what's your guys's problem I'm up here lol.
"Fish in the water don't notice the water they swin in" is such a profound and sad way to describe the things shes seen in her life and how it was all (and still is there) just so normalized I deeply feel her story, I was adopted during the one child policy regimen in china, i was told my mother gave me away because it either that or leave me to die and she refused, this is all i know of her im grateful for her brave sacrifice for my life, thankfully i was much to young to understand what was really happening at the time and very little about my birth family myself, I wish to find them one day and they would want to see me, I hope this woman has a strong support system in her life and a professional to speak to her and hear her, I wish her the most peaceful life for the rest of her days ❤
I love mysteries. I'd love to help you find your birth family. It's not impossible.
Why would a fish in water not notice the water it's swimming in? If you're walking on a sidewalk or a trail in nature, do you notice where you're walking? I do.
👏🏽
@@mattslev Mate, l don't see a fish, l smell a rat.
Lol it's a horrible cliché
So glad to see her story spreading. It sounds like something you'd read in a history book, but it's happening right now in our lifetimes, as we stare at our screens surrounded by abundance.
!!! But how do we help!
Unfortunately she is a liar. Most of the shit didnt happen to her but happened to someone else. Her mom would say: We didnt starve.
Horrible that you try to make people feel guilty for things they have worked for, its not OUR fault, its the North Korean leaders fault.
So what're you doing ?
@Cortez Media conditioned her like a Skinner's rat more outrageous she spoke more claps and food she got. Jordan Peterson, Lex, Joe im a fan of all but i need to realize they are just gullible humans like us. Without research they just take the face value just like us.
this is the definition of brave and stunning. Not that woke weak bs
Lmao if only you were brave instead of spending your life being a fucking "pick up artist"
Imagine seeing someone with intestines hanging out thier butthole begging for food.
@@lamelame1779 progressive spotted
@john bonjovie progressive spotted
@@yungkiwi2894 Republican't who likes his own comments spotted
My brother used to work at Indian embassy in North korea. He used to say in 8 months of his service he has not seen a single person who is close to 5 feet tall. It's a condition of serious starvation.
Previous Chinese generations are like this.
The very old.
Met an assistants grandmother.
4ft 3in tall.
No longer true for the young who can be as tall as the Dutch for healthy young men from middle class families.
@@sammencia7945 very true
there’s embassy’s in NK?!?!?!?
@@er297553
North Korea has an Embassy in India also, And we unfortunately hav Trade & diplomatic relations with that Shithole
@@astaroth282 Lmao
It’s insane that what she is detailing is still happening at this very moment, while we all live such sheltered lives never having to even fathom a life like that. Hearing her story was just wow.
Listen vro we didnt earn that for free bro people died for it. George washington spent his life at war and when he finally got the chance to chill at home they begged him back to be first president. Which is quite literally like coming out of retirement to be in both the best and worse jobs that exists. Its a grueling job. Theres no days off for at least 4 years straight unless youre joe biden. You cant just abandon america for a two month vacation
@@TheAnnoyingBoss Most of everyone living in the us currently hasn’t had to worry about flies eating their organs while they drape out of their orifices. Just saying.
It's not happening, where is the evidence? Where's the evidence of the bodies in the streets? The rats? The train she had to push for one month in the snow? JUST A FUCKING SHRED
@@leopheard Yea sure let’s try to get a camera crew and some analysts in there, and then watch them magically disappear to never be heard from again.
Yeah but sometimes at 3am after a night of drinking and I cant find my cell phone so i can have the food delivered right to my mouth......I have to actually get up and go drive to like a White Castle or something just to eat again. Does she have to do that?? I didnt think so
for a person who doesn't speak English as a first language, she is sooo articulate with her words
very well spoken and thank god for that so that the majority can understand these stories
what is that supposed to mean?
@@DaZandersShow it means she's speaks the English language very very well for someone who's first language isn't English... how much of an airhead do you have to be
@@DaZandersShow She’s a fake fraud and a liar
@@DaZandersShow she's a South Korean spy
When she talks of not feeling compassion, and that it haunts her....I hope she knows now that is just trauma. When you are just trying to survive your whole life, you have probably never even been shown compassion. So sad.
When I heard that, it was hard to compute but I agree with you when you say it came from trauma.
Jordan Peterson points this out with his interview with her.
It’s something that is Americans just don’t even know what it is who are we to act like we know what label that deserves?
anyone who believes this, is a gullible clown that needs to be sent to elementary school again.
*As a child, did she really see a woman publicly executed for watching a Hollywood movie?*
She made the claim that she watched a person executed in public for watching a foreign film. Sometimes she says it is James Bond other times a South Korean film. Other North Korean defectors have also said that public executions were stopped several years prior to that date.In a response to Mary Ann Jolley's artcle which exposed her lies & fabrications, Yeonmi denied that she ever claimed such a story :
UPDATE: *A Response from Yeonmi Park to Mary Ann Jolley's article in Diplomat*
"I want to thank Mary Ann Jolley for caring so much about the terrible situation in North Korea that she would point out any inconsistencies in my quotes and how my story has been reported. Much of the time, there was miscommunication because of a language barrier. I have only learned English in the last year or so, and I’m trying hard to improve every day to be a better advocate for my people. I apologize for any misunderstandings. For example, *I never said that I saw executions in Hyesan. My friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to name it).*
*But is it true? Did she never say that? Was it a misunderstanding, the so-called language barrier? Or she is just a fabricator and liar! Let us see :*
*When she was nine years old, Park was forced to attend the execution of her classmate’s mother*. Her crime? She had lent a *SOUTH KOREAN* movie to a friend. The townsfolk were gathered in a large STADIUM to watch the punishment.
*“She got killed in front of us,”* said Park, now 20 years-old. *“I was standing next to her daughter - my whole school had to go.”* www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic
*When she was nine, she was forced to watch her best friend's mother being executed on the STREET before her eyes.* "She was a very nice, gentle mother," she said. "But I knew that lady. She was not that bad. She was not going to destroy our country," she said.
*She has witnessed it many times as a child, when her mother used to give her a piggyback ride to the big stadium to watch the public executions, considered a 'celebration' which everybody is under orders to attend.*
Along the route, victims are beaten with sticks and a rock placed in their mouths so that all their teeth are broken. Once they get there, they are shot three times - in the knee, the chest and the head. Nobody, not even the closest of family members, is permitted to show any sign of grief. (In an interview with the Irish Independent,Nicola Anderson October 17 2014) www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html
*She watched as her friend’s mother was executed.* ....The woman stood accused of watching a contraband *James Bond DVD* and leant it to friends-a crime Yeonmi herself had committed, and one that could only be redeemed in death. It’s more than a decade later and she calmly recalls the shots ringing out, followed by an explosion of blood. Oct. 31, 2014 www.thedailybeast.com/how-titanic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-koreas-totalitarian-state
*And yet she repeats this lie many times in following years aftar 2014,* an example :
The 27-year-old said she was regularly forced to watch people being executed including her best friend's mum who was killed for watching a western movie. Apr 14 2021 www.the-sun.com/news/2698545/kim-jong-un-hitler-nukes-china-enabler/
"Park does not spare any detail of the atrocities and injustices she endured on her journey to freedom. *After watching her friend’s mother publicly executed* and then herself surviving surgery without anaesthetic or painkillers, Park knew she must try and escape." (Yeonmi Park recounts her harrowing journey to freedom at an event hosted by Walk Free and Perth USAsia Centre. 18 FEB 2019 ) www.walkfree.org/news/2019/yeon-mi-reminds-australia-that-our-freedom-isnt-universal/
NOTE : As a bad liar she changes the place of executaion : street va stadium. And the film : South Korean film vs. James Bond film!!
Furthermore , she made up another lie in this regard :
“There were different levels of punishment,” says Park. “If you were caught with a Bollywood or Russian movie you were sent to prison for three years but if it was South Korean or American you were executed.” www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic
The fact that she has to go on different programs and tell these stories over and over again and has to relive these moments makes my heart ache for her.
She has her own channel where she talks about stuff like this all the time
Unfortunately it’s not her duty. She’s so strong and just wants the world to know that this is happening. The world needs to do something.
@@austincarter8875 right! She has done *more* than her part on behalf this issue, much more. She’s been telling us about this since at least 2014. I remember, vividly, the first I time I watched an interview with her around 2016. It’s time people with the power to change something start to work on this change. I graduated high school in 2015, never really learned much of anything about North Korea. So when rocket man started making threats, I started seeing stories from defectors, I was terrified for these people. It was like my first dose of “real world” problems. It’s stuck with me ever since. I wish I knew how to help.
She is on a mission, and tells her stories ‘happily’. And as she says, Kim kills her, that other people can carry on her stories
Why😂 her whole point is to be a voice for North Korea. The more places she goes to that has a big audience the more people will know about it.
I feel like her lack of compassion seeing these things was a coping mechanism - there's nothing she can do so there is just acceptance and it becomes her norm. What an incredible woman.
You only have so many fucks to give in life. And when all your fucks are being spent trying to find food and stay alive, well then not much else is gonna matter
It's definitely a coping mechanism. She likely had to compartmentalize a lot just to keep going. Otherwise, the mind would be overwhelmed by the amount of traumatic events she dealt with on a daily basis. It's so sad that those poor people are suffering through all that even now.
I think she’s actually lying though, is what it is
I feel like your level of gullibility is a function of the sort of propaganda that she made up😅😅😅
She’s spreading propaganda and is a liar.
This isn't just starvation, this is literally hell on earth. I don't even think a dystopian novel has been written that is this dystopian. This woman is the strongest person I've ever heard speak.
Read The Gulag Archipelago by Soljenitsin. He's able to describe that hell, and goes beyond, laying bare the human soul. You'll see the deepest mechanics of evil and the purest good and nobility that overcomes it.
And she's just a girl from North Korea...
*FUCK THAT*
@@ismarril Oh man. Just looked it up. I knew the word Gulag sounded familiar.
Read Escape from Camp 14.
@@enki647 Beat me to it. Read it about eight years ago. Harrowing.
It's just so incredible to me that she's lived such a horrific life and was adapted to a norm where there was no compassion for death and that misery and she escaped and TRANSCENDED in self-reflection to discover compassion and the details of that misery from an OUTSIDE perspective of what is normal. This woman is ridiculously intelligent.
I'm just clad she made it. World needs more strong people like Yeonmi Park.
Your brain can cope with some fucked up shit and still return to normal afterwards if you're put into the right environment.
It's a miracle she survived though. Even describing it to outsiders we probably don't understand it's full brutality.
I agree. The whole time I kept thinking, of course it had to feel like nothing to see that. It was your own brain trying to protect you because how else could you have ever escaped without compartmentalizing it like that?
It makes you think that to know how phycopaths react to death is little to non, imagine people in korea’s brain activity to death, thats really sad
Only God rescue Her..for His Glory
She is doing His will..education us spoil People..
Who need to know
No complaints here. ALL PRAISES AND GLORY TO GOD...HALLELUJAH
This is something that needed to be added to RUclips, it just wouldn't have the reach on Spotify. Thank You Joe
She’s a fraud! She has been exposed multiple times, do some research on her
@@HamzaKhan-ky8kf fraud? what has she done?
She has changed her version of her escape many times. Check out her older videos
def smelled funny, like when he asked her if they ate the rats raw
All these people above 👆 trying to discredit her are North Korean bots/trolls. Lame attempt at faking a conversation.
The organ outside the body thing is legit. My aunt once had surgery and her intestines kept popping out when her stitches busted. And we had to put gloves on and literally put it back inside her. I cannot imagine dogs looking at her like a snack, and no one being in a position to help her either. I’m so sorry for these people and what they go through.
Malnutrition == surgery? Okay buddy
@@kowboy702 did I say that anywhere at all? Or was I saying that intestines popping out and putting them back in is a real thing? Don’t try to shade people if you’re stupid, because now you look even dumber.
@@kowboy702 and what does malnutrition = surgery even mean? I can only imagine how far your tired brain cells had to stretch for that reach, because that ish didn’t make any sense…as you tried to insinuate that’s what I meant 😂 are you high?
finally someone wiuth some sense i been reading these comments like how has no one called this woman out for her lies if my gut was hanging out there is no way i am thinking i am hungry , an earthquake breaks out, great time for a sandwich, fucking hell....@@kowboy702
This seriously puts life in to perspective, we are so lucky to be born where we’re born.
Perspective *
protective forsure man
Ah yes I love putting life into protective.
I know you meant "perspective"... but no it doesn't.
Let's go to Walmart and buy products made in China by serfs so they can torture and help torture so that we can "rollback" 😉 prices.
she deserves to live the most lavish, care-free life. this was absolutely heartbreaking.
But she literally lied about all this. She's a proven fraud who gets boosted by right wing media. Not to mention how many of her stories blatantly contradict eachother between interviews. As it turns out, hard to keep a story straight when you're utterly full of shit.
@@formalbug5716 show me proof before you go off on a tangent, please. this is a pretty serious topic.
There would be too much survivor guilt. That is why, she advocates for the people.
Why doesn’t everyone
no she shouldnt, she live a NORMAL life because shes been caught multiple times changing her story, yes she suffered but to lie about it is horrible
She also spoke on Jordan Peterson's podcast. This woman is beyond brave and strong and I thank her for humbling me with her story.
yeah it was hard to listen to, as bad as I thought things were over there they're far worse than that. brave woman
That podcast was an ice cold slap to the face. Horrifying. Just horrid.
The sad part is that she actually was middle or upper class in NK. Imagine what other lower classes went through in comparison. Super sad.
this is what Brave really looks like
As bill burr would say this is what we should be using the word brave for, not fat people, just to liven the mood a bit. But for real she is really a brave woman more then I am.
This will go down as one of the most jaw dropping interviews imo
Have you seen the video
Elon Musk meets Post Malone
It’s hilarious!! 😂 👽
@@blm1256 bruh! 😂 I’m dead! 😆 💀
@@blm1256 you are a bot
@@matthewp5472 yup. You nailed it. I’m a robot that was programmed to recommend funny videos that people will enjoy..
@@blm1256 Ni Hao
This is one of Rogan's most important episodes.
I hope he pushes this everywhere possible.
I agree. Western media has ties to China and thus won’t want to upset them by having content like this. JRE can air stuff like this without worrying about China
@@hamschh what do you want them to do? NK has hundreds of icbm's aimed at Seoul that would level it at a minutes notice. It's mutually assured destruction to have any major conflict between the 2 countries. That's how the countries are able to exist together.
@@hamschh idk how you can even jokingly make the assumption that South Korea isn't angered by this. As though they don't even care? Lol
@@hamschh read about the Korean War.
North Korea has nukes that has even the USA worried.
@@hamschh Because all these horror stories are completely made up. It's all paid for propaganda.
I feel like such a horrible person for ever complaining about anything..
don't worry, it's likely just right wing propaganda that she's spewing, check our her funders
@@pjauthur9869 care to elaborate?
Bruh😅
@Stephanie S Come on now that's such a naive way of lookin at things, no matter how you try to rationalize it there is a difference in the degree of suffering, there are people in this world who suffer way more than others, this doesn't mean everyone else's problems aren't real or they aren't allowed to feel bad about them but it can put things into perspective about how we're still lucky in a lot of ways
Me too
When she was speaking about her mom going to find food and she may never see her again that broke my heart.. God bless Yeonmi.
They were rich in NK though. She’s a liar
@@krazat An you were there!?! Her family is probably bitter she became so successful. That didn't occur to you and your leftist propaganda/agenda though, did it!?! Because hateful leftists don't think. They are brain washed hate filled machines hell bent on one mission, destruction of America. Her life is a testament to what a savior & beautiful country this is and saved so many that are thriving Americans today including yourself, unless your Chinese or some foreign bot trolling comments which it seems. I wonder how much you are paid to leave nasty remarks every other comment but it's clearly ineffective. Interesting how the left didn't hate this woman or spread false allegations /slander her, until she spoke in favor of decent values & praising America, our core founding principles & freedoms, etc. Now it's a full fledged criminal harassment campaign to curtail her rights and shut her up, discredit her, it's rather pathetic!! You were not there. None of us were. She speaks of details and genuine quality. There are those that have reason to be bitter and claim ridiculing things against her. Hollywood is the epicenter of embellishment!! Who are you to judge this lady when you have no clue and didn't witness her life unfolding. People can go from being middle class (they weren't "rich" even for NK standards), to dirt poor and starving, that's very easily done in a nation that doesn't recognize human rights. She embodies & symbolizes the essence of what a genius concept America was and it's immense, unique beauty & the gifts it gives to the world and how it's changed world history forever. Many people on this planet sought refuge here and wouldn't have lived had it not been for America to migrate to. Your hate is misdirected. It shows how low the leftists will stoop attacking this girl and only empowers her more and causes many more to pay attention to her message regarding Freedom & Blessings.
@@krazatsource?
The pain in this woman's voice is heart wrenching.
Yeah she says she didn’t feel anything but deep down she feels it
Lol. She speaks like a doll with no pain or feeling in her voice.
Dude all the media outlets got fucking fooled!!! Yes she escaped North Korea but half the shit she says is made up!!! Man these fucking fools are so gullible.
@@Underground.Rabbit Here’s the guy who thinks everything is a lie
She says her auntie got executed from watching a Bond movie when she gives a speech at EU. Her dead auntie watches South Korean drama when she gives a speech to South Korea. She also accused Mongolian border patrols for undressing her fully naked when Mongolia is highly supportive for these refugees. Then she admitted to lying(oh i forgot it was other patrols blahblah).
This is the most important podcast joe has ever done. Crimes against humanity are perpetually happening there.
Check out the one he did with abby martin and all the war crimes happening in Gaza and all the dead children and how miserable life there is because of the siege its a big open air prison
@Noise Control thats bs
you talk about crimes against humanity and you are from the states i assume? HAHAHA
@Noise Control and actual genocide in North Korea backed by the Chinese government also.
@@sadeksama5057 will do
As a south Korean, this entire story is just unbelievably shocking. This is a true example of how a dictator with a wrong ideology and faith can just fuck up the entire group of people. I am so happy that she got a chance to escape from there, and I believe the stories she deliver will greatly contribute to increasing public's awareness.
The story isn’t true, she’s a liar, everything she’s saying was the story of different defectors, not herself. Her own mother said they never starved because she’s from the political elite of Pyongyang. She’s profiting off of other peoples suffering.
@@BuRsTiNxMLB yeah, but... even if she is a liar, this stuff still happened and is continuing to happen.
@@BuRsTiNxMLB you got any proof to back that up?
@@BuRsTiNxMLB if she was, why would she run away tho? I mean I know I wouldn’t if I was wealthy and part of the most powerful group in my country where no one could do anything to us. Like why would I want to run away ?
I think it’s important to take over North Korea for the sake of future generations life.
She is so brave, so resilient and so inspirational. And not to mention absolutely breathtaking. Truly horrifying the things she had to endure. It makes me feel so naive trying to wrap my head around how it’s even possible for anyone to survive what she has. And that people are going through that as I type this. I feel so grateful and absolutely humbled by my “first world problems”.
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Liar is probably the actual word
She’s spreading propaganda and is a liar.
She's full of it. Her own mom said that their life in North Korea always had access to food and even luxuries (by N Korean standards.) Even Yeonmi said she was in the 1% in North Korea when she first was doing publicity but then flipped her story to seem much worse than it was. She's a grifter. Joe and anyone else is truly dumb as bricks to believe that these malnourished people eating rat stew are out there pushing these heavy trains because there's no electricity...
Would it bother you if she was lying to get cloud? There are many expose videos about her and her changing stories.
One of the most important JRE episodes ever. Share this one as much as you can my freedom loving brothers and sisters.
Agreed!
Have you seen this clip of Lex telling Joe that his new studio setup sucks?!
ruclips.net/video/n2FsHi-C8UE/видео.html
what's important about lies and Propaganda ?
@@BubuH-cq6km so you think North Korea is a paradise oasis and not a communist hell hole. Wow I was so wrong this whole time. Thanks for clarifying that.
Sure because a place can be either a paradise or something out of a badly written horror movie, there's no in-betweens.
Then I guess the US is about paradise after all.
Joking aside, North Korea can still be bad while her ridicolous stories are obviously made-up.
You know it's serious when Joe doesn't bring up DMT
@@cyrusasman6302 your joking 😂 I only seen this clip and assumed he couldn't possibly ask her about DMT 🤣
Have you tried DMZ
@@petert4269 actually have tried it yes 😂
@@cyrusasman6302 no they don’t
@@bigdawgproductions9912 yes they do, when talking about when how she started regaining her humanity and feeling again...
Working in South Korea in the military you hear stories like this a lot. People are completely clueless when it comes to knowing how bad it really is over there. This is the tip of the iceberg. There are more heartbreaking stories like these than you all can possibly imagine. This woman is so courageous and you can hear the emotion in her voice, even though she was numb to it when she was there she knows now just how awful it really is.
bro i knew north korea was fucked but this is like FUCKED FUCKED ive heard some shit but damn i think this right here has to be the top of the list
@@mrgiggly21 my parents were CI agents in the army stationed in Korea. They told me stories of North Korean spies hunting down defectors and kidnapping & torturing them on an almost weekly/monthly basis in South Korea. They truly have no limit of their barbaric actions. Even against young women & children who left to the south just for a better life.
@@mrgiggly21
Yeonmi has many videos on her yt channel
@@F80mthree one that’s fucked two can we drop a bomb on em already like just be like ohhh shiny button my bad that sent all the missiles to north korea but ig that would start some big ass war and shit
@@ronronniemeyers bro tbh i’d have to take prolly a week or two break before every vid cuz i’m pretty sure all the shit she’s seen is fucked. ok so i’m from here but parents are from mexico and haven’t personally seen stuff but everybody that i’ve known has and it’s like every now and than not everyday like hers
I have just finished reading Yeonmi's first book and did a search on RUclips. This book is an incredible story and has left me quite shell shocked. What an incredible and brave human being she is.
You're a sucker!😅😅😅
Gullible
@@nikkiseashores82 who’s gullible?
@@hollymorgan4214she’s a propagandist, shes been caught in many lies over the years. She’s on the Koch brothers is payroll. Think about it, these people are malnourished to the point that you can see their organs but they are also pushing a f-ing train in freezing weather? Have you seen strongmen competitors attempt to move a train? It’s just about impossible. Bodies floating down the river?? Where are all these bodies coming from if there’s so many starving people? I was suspicious the first time I heard her story, I immediately thought of the lies they told during the gulf war. The “Iraqis are taking babies out of incubators and throwing them on the ground” lie. This is all propaganda, it’s pretty obvious to be honest. The American public are very gullible.
She is lying her ass off 😂 quit buying her books she converts the funds into plastic surgery
“Always hungry, never felt full”.. That was a hell of a powerful statement .
@A Blunt Conservative No that's not what the left wants. Stop buying into those talking points. The left wants a free but fair market, where the wealthy pay their fair share and the middle class are being taken care of. We're not out to punish anybody for being successful. Demanding a better healthcare system and protection from being ripped off at work is not communism. A robust social support system is what Sweden, Norway, France and Germany... already have. That's NOT communism.
How is it powerful? That's just a description.
@@backpain100 smoke another dooby there shaggy 😂
Nobody knew the reasons why people were taken away. But it could affect everyone. Therefore, in every house, for such an occasion, a bag with essentials was hung by the door. Once they came for me. As a teacher, I was taken to the camp to teach Chinese and teach propaganda songs to prisoners. The cell had a concrete floor, walls and five video cameras on the ceiling. 20 people huddled on 16 square meters. The prisoners were wearing uniforms and handcuffs. They were all shaved baldly. In the camp, I also worked in a hospital, where I witnessed how prisoners were given medicines unnecessarily, maybe experiments were being carried out to, for example, make women infertile. At one of the meetings, she witnessed how the guards raped a young woman in front of 200 prisoners. Anyone who showed sympathy for her himself became the object of humiliation and torture in a "black" room with an electric chair, where I was also tortured until I lost consciousness. Since I visited the camp, sometimes I cannot even climb onto the bed myself. In the cell, I slept too long on the cold concrete floor, and now I have rheumatism. At 43, I became a sick person, although I was completely healthy before the camp, ”says the book“ Die Kronzeugin ”(The Main Witness) by German writer Alexandra Kavelius and Sairagul Sauytbai about the“ camps ”in Xinjiang.
Quanguo has turned the entire region into a police state with checkpoints between cities and within cities - between districts, with a network of cameras with facial recognition, with mandatory ID scanning to enter houses and shopping centers. Everywhere - policemen in uniform and civilian clothes.
Forced organ harvesting in China is carried out in relation to representatives of ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities detained in different regions, and they are often not told the reasons for detention or there is no arrest warrant, "- says the conclusion of 12 experts, the most popular organs for seizure are the heart , kidneys, liver and cornea of the eye, and this measure is applied to members of the banned Falun Gong movement, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians.
@@surefiremushroomsmicrogreens 🙄
My god. This poor girl. I cannot consciously comprehend the trauma. You can tell she is heavily traumatized. Im so sorry for what is happening in North Korea. Save these human beings... It's not fair because they grew up there and they can almost never leave. A very few percentage of people escape.
Hyeonseo Lee, a high profile North Korean defector, who was a dear friend of Yeonmi Park has double-defected back to North Korea. So, we can assume that a lot these North Korean defectors stories are just fabrication to get sponsored by Western Christian charities
@@Steveinthailand Not sure where you get your information from but Hyeonseo has not defected back to NK... She's still living in South Korea. We can not assume NK defectors are just looking for charities.
People like you can assume that.
*DANCING INTO THE TUNE OF THIS WOMAN : Trash propaganda produced for imperialism and profit.*
Yeonmi Park is an actress hired by the US deep state and she has just proven her usefulness , they would likely prefer a more coherent testimonial, but as long as the sheeple eat it up .... .
This young lady is being used by political organizations to fearmonger, with an agenda at play here . If you believe all her stories, you are either naive or simple too stupid. There is no way of getting almost any reliable information about North Korea, due to their heavy isolation. Or if there is sources, they are from South Korean and USA media, which either guess or invent things. She's an actor and this channel is meant for spreading American anti-communist propaganda, she is just a Yankee paid liar, the worst is that she does the actor thing very well. Because someone pays money to them and educate them how to speak in public. A VERY well paid North Korean defector.
The CIA has directly funded stuff like this before, why do you uncritically trust in it? Again what if the real reason these people can't keep their stories straight is because they are liars and frauds motivated by the desire to obtain money and publicity? Or alternatively, what if they work for some organization or agency hostile to the DPRK, like the CIA, or the Adam Smith Institute? She's supported by the SK intelligence agency to tell a horrific story. It gets policy makers and the international community to sanction NK. Her story has been debunked. She does it for the fame and attention. This is really no different than the story of WMDs, babies thrown from incubators in Kuwait. She gotten a lot of mileage out of this shame. There's a reason viewers are attracted to crazy bizarre exposures about North Korea, regardless of if they're actually true or not.
That woman appeared on Valuetainment, Lex Friedman, & Joe Rogan at around the same time (classic fake propaganda spouted by that annoying puppet lyce ducet. This would have been *carefully orchestrated from the beginning making sure the defector had been paid handsomely to tell her lies about the DPRK.* ). Nothing wrong with interviewing people, her claims were accepted without any skepticism on all those shows. If you watch subsequent Joe Rogan episodes, he uses this sleezy interview as "evidence" to push his "China is evil" argument (ie. war with China). Lex Friedman could care less about American-induced famine in Yemen & economic sanctions on poor countries, but started crying & using her claims of famine as proof Kim Jung Un was "evil" (ie. no peace deals with Asians). It's sad because this submissive shilling undermines their claims of being "independent".
Controversy sells, but he is missing the point of what the true face of imperialism really is. It is typical behavior from people of settler colonist nations. Little culture means little acceptance of what's going on in the world.
The more sensationalist lies that she tells will bring her more profit, though she’s taking a risk by becoming less believable and triggering more people to see through her bullshit with each story she tells. She’s truly a despicable soulless demon whose only real interests in life are money and plastic surgery.
@@deliadeliani9742 Okay buddy...
@@surenaanerus7387 Okay buddy.
I saw Joe do stand up live last night, the day after he did this podcast with her. He went OFF on communism, the CCP and authoritarianism; more so than I have ever heard him articulate. You can tell this podcast impacted him deeply.
@irishmetalfan Yep it’s $30 to see Rogan and Hinchcliffe at the local club here in Austin. It’s a fun time
@James Thompson I’ve been a libertarian for years, and i can still tell how much of a moron you are by comparing Sanders to a full blown north korean authoritarian regime. Sanders is not an authoritarian nor is he a communist.
@James Thompson lol Sanders votes like a capitalist. It really doesn't matter what he says or what you think he is. His voting record looks the same as Nancy "we are capitalists" Pelosi. Bernies party is paid for by corporations(capitalist) and bernie made a mill selling his book(capitalist). He told people to vote for biden(capitalist). If you believe Bernie is a socialist or communist then I have a bridge to sell you and the rest of the libertarians in their confirmation biased information bubble.
@@tomhines3404 if Joe went off on the CCP the. I wonder what Tony had to say during his set 😐
@James Thompson If you can't tell the difference between Bernie Sanders and Kim Jong-Un, your education system has failed you.
Speechless, one of the strongest woman I’ve ever heard .
@Cortez your a North Korean Bot
@Cortez Oh man, I had no idea you had firsthand experience in North Korea that trumps her firsthand experience. Can you explain how you got out?
@Cortez communist are pathetic! Especially NK. I mean they are eating rats! Too bad China stepped in or we would’ve ended this in the 50’s
Love her channel
@Cortez Somehow you managed to twist this inside your sick head to connect it to the covid vaccine. Fool seek help.
I just finished this entire podcast. One of his best interviews/conversations to date. People need to wake up soon. Keep going Joe!!! Never stop what you do
It's top 10 for me. It hit me so deeply.
@@siddasloth3292 I hear you man.. I really feel like something
What can be done?
@@michaelmartin1520 The world needs to open a can of whoop ass on china ASAP
@@jackferro1953 bro u will see in 20 years...
Wow and that ending I swear joe was about to start tearing, I know I was
I could never imagine an entire country in this day and age being in this condition. There aren't even horror movies made that are this scary.
This will be future America if the far left agenda is completed.
@@JoseGonzalez-wt1do bruh North Korea is far right authoritarian please stop comparing North Korea to mf Democrats
@@nicolasrios7382 Yeah, I'm sure the Workers Party of Korea is right wing.
Where did you go to school? Just curious....
@@nicolasrios7382 no, they're authoritarian but they started as communist. Far right Authoritarian regimes don't care about brainwashing the citizens, they just do it and don't care how you feel about it. NK still brainwashes like a cult. It's easier to keep control of the citizens.
Wait for it, the US is going this way
"North Korea was like the Hunger Games. When I read the book the Hunger Games I was like oh my god this person copied North Korea".
Wow that hits deep for me. Imagine your everyday existence being like the Hunger Games. Yeonmi is a very strong, intelligent, & unstoppable force. She is so inspiring to me I am grateful she did this interview with Joe.
It is pretty funny she says that. You know she had an appearance on a South Korean show where her mother said she thought everyone was lying on that show about North Korea and started making up stuff to go along with the show right? She's doing the same thing with the Hunger Games here, just finding some fiction and then attributing it to her life to profit off of gullible people. It's pretty well documented how she's a narcissist and a liar.
@@Alexander_Grant single piece of lucid dissent in these comments, it's like the twilight zone
@@superobotmonkey It's crazy. The whole Yeonmi Park thing feels to me like a critique of American society and the effectiveness of it's propaganda more than any revelations about life inside North Korea.
@@Alexander_Grant she seems like a tool for modern American propaganda "men are being attacked for being men" then basically saying we should be complacent with our current overlords because other countries have it worse. America #1🙄
@@Alexander_Grant So how long have you worked for the propaganda department?
SO incredibly powerful. Hands down one of the best JRE conversations. I’m encouraging everyone to listen.
@Cortez found the North Korean shill 👆
@Cortez ya sound like an insufferable boob sir
@Cortez it's hard to believe but it's TRUE, thank God or your luck whatever you're into, that you were born in place where this reality isn't.
A lot of people don’t realize not only what goes on in North Korea but after the Korean War, South Korea was in a similar state, I only know this because that my mother and her family grew up poor. I feel like no nation with the amount of wealth that is out there should have to go through shit like this. Like why are we fighting instead of feeding people?
@Kwame Nkruma very true... she's a sell out
Thank you for having her as a guest. She is a voice that needs to be heard.
@Titus Telesco get a life tetnus
meanwhile south korean president moon shook hand with kim john-un.
both of them should be in jail.
@Kwame Nkruma it's unfortunate but her story has changed drastically over time -- this is not at all to say she and her family didn't suffer or that north koreans as a whole are not suffering tremendously, but this woman's credibility should be very low by now from a journalistic standpoint.
thank her for
the b00b job!!
@@kuyre2239 Your darkness is weak, the light she sheds will penetrate you, and I dont think you're into that
I'm currently bulkin up to get bigger and stronger, eating so much I feel like I am about to thorw up sometimes, because that's just how the gym goes. Watching this made my feel like a fucking shithead. Sometimes we just don't know how lucky we are.
so sad
In the last two years, I gained a ton of weight after a breakup, job loss and life issues, I think what a privilege it is to have such problems. Wow! She is phenomenal. Humbling.
@@calmingbabysleep1256 Yes sir, we all have problems though, an Elephant has Elephant problems and an ant has ant problems. Which doesn't mean they are not important, take care men and if you need any help just dm me. In words of Mr. Goggins: Stay Hard!
*"How can anyone think this clown is telling the truth."*
Yeonmi is a paid, celebrity "witness." The Diplomat did a write up of her about how her stories do not line up, and they have the receipts. It’s is fabricated, unfortunately. I know that perspective is difficult and unfair, it seems, but that’s the point of such a story perfectly tuned over time to appeal to your emotions. If you need more proof look at the Greyzone video with Max Blumenthal, and another further report he did previously. There is a literal TV program in South Korea where North Korean defectors compete with their lavishly embellished escape stories to win.. it’s a game show. Yeonmi Park has personally made almost $1,000,000 telling her story.
Her story changes massively. One of the most crucial changes in her story from the initial tv interview is that her father was initially with her when she left N.K.. later she said it was only her mom that was with her, in order to weave in the part where her mom is raped to save her from that assault- a much more heart-wrenching progression.
Says she was poor but slips up by saying she grew up with her mum having chanel handbags🥴....how can anyone think this clown is telling the truth. Anything she says is suspect, as she could easily be grifting Rightwing media.
The story is she stole other defectors stories. She was a high ranking person in DPRK (according to one version they claimed) and did escape (probably through bribes). She steals other people’s stories to make her story sound more sensational. you will always see someone trying to be over dramatic and get attention and fame by making the story 100 times worst. Did she go through horrible things? We don't know. Did she use other peoples stories and exploit them as her own? Yes, 100 percent.
She's definitely from North Korea and she definitely "escaped" but I'm pretty sure she's laying the story on thick because her whole career depends on it. It's her livelihood.
She's Korean Elizabeth Holmes. She arrived here in South Korea and used the refugee system in every way, got free education, numerous plastic surgeries including breast implants, appeared on TV to find a rich man, failed, then rehearsed years for the show targeting foreign countries.
Even in the DPRK itself she acted and behaved like a spoiled criminal individual, so it's just natural she bragged about it in corrupt, americanized South Korean reality shows, and even more in the US itself. No surprise... However, she does need to be exposed, and the way to do that is to present actual evidence of her family and individual past in the DPRK, her path in South Korea and her natural puppet role in the service of US propaganda in exchange for the fame and money she always craved. Very simple.
They never escaped to Mongolia. Her mother never raped, and they were never kidnapped/captured as sex-slaves! And her father never was or died in China! The whole story/ her book is pure fabrication. She lied about her father's death, and got exposed by North Korean government, so she had to admit it (in silence! few people were paying attention to it). Here you go :
"But North Korean government came after me and described me that I didn't suffering in North Korea and also they said that my father died in North Korea not in China, and they say that I was an very ambitious girl because he gripping ambitious extremely bad thing and they say you are an ambitious girl, and your father was a bad person, and your mom was immoral person...........But they didn't really come up with a like big thing *except my father died in North Korea* and my father's ashes were in China, and my mother went to China a few months ago and brought my father's ashes to South Korea." (ReasonTV : In Order to Live: Yeonmi Park's North Korean Defector Story Nov 13, 2015)
18:30 ruclips.net/video/cjE7apYAdBM/видео.html
*The market is huge for stories about NK that fit a certain narrative pushed by the imperialists*
She seems compromised…… a CIA asset? She’s playing the game quite well. If you’re a minority who looks conventionally attractive and says the same talking points, the GOP and institutional right will hire them on the spot.
There's an article about her from 2014 about her contradictions on the diplomat. Now the excuse made then was, Her language barrier with english. The problem with that statement is she told the same lies in Korean on South Korean TV which baffled the host of the show. The best part is she did a full 180 and when investigated, her real story came out.
On a South Korean TV show Park Yeonmi told the audience that her family was doing extremely well and that her mother was wearing pants that ‘were all imported from Japan’ and added, ‘My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea.’
They didn't ask her to play any role, that's why it was a shocker to the South Korean public, She did a 180 on what they expected. They never propped her up to be privileged, that crap came out of her mouth after she became famous. So doing a 180 and asking your mom on networked TV "Am I really North Korean, these other people seem poor"!!!
*But after she started being coached by a Seoul-based American anti-DPRK think tank Freedom Factory along with other right wing/pro imperialist Think Tanks / NGO's (Atlas Network, Oslo Freedom Forum, Human Right Fundation, etc) who hired/paid/taught her what kind of horror stories she should tell about the DPRK, her narrative completely changed.* That’s when she started claiming she was so poor that she had to survive eating grass, that she saw dead bodies floating in North Korean rivers (where she previously said to have had fun together with her friends), promoting how she was starved while saying she never was poor? and other gibberish. The host lost his composure and looked confused AF. Then having her mom says "oh those stories of her eating grass ect that never happened." HuH??? was the whole crowd, audience and hosts.
She then became the media darling for several years and her new narrative turned out to be very lucrative for her.
I also noticed that she talks a lot of crap about South Korea and says that she moved to America because they were oppressing her there. I think they were just catching on to her BS and she had to try lower hanging fruit -
To be fair a lot of defectors struggle in South Korea due to discrimination, economic and social problems, etc. a fair amount even want to return to North Korea, and some have. However, I highly doubt Yeonmi faced anything remotely oppressive in South Korea, being a rich girl funded by every alphabet agency in America. It’s likelier that she said something stupid, the South Korean media picked up on it, called her out on her bullshit, and asked her who her CIA handlers are
South Korea tends to be sympathetic towards North Korean defectors, especially if they are ardently anti-North Korea. However, Yeonmi’s story is so full of holes that the South Koreans do not take her seriously, nor do they respect her. *All she seems to do is make up grandiose stories to get more clickbait, and to promote a neocon agenda,* rather than actually helping North Korean refugees. Other defectors want nothing to do with her, and she has been reduced to making all of her content in English because she knows that no Koreans will ever take her seriously again, and that only Americans will believe anything she says (much like they believed Saddam ground people into burgers with a meat grinder and had nukes pointed at America).
The money is to good to pass up, even if that means lying and embellishments. She is not the first to sell out, but so much was learned from watching her blatantly lie and try to cry without crying throughout the whole show.
In a way it's good to have a liar on record when she gets exposed again.
JOE PLS MAKE A PLAYLIST OF FULL EPISODES ONLY PLEASE!!!!!
This is one of the reasons I feel horrible for wasting food, just knowing that there is someone out there in the world who would do anything for my scraps of food just breaks me.
sudan is even worse, deserts as far as the eye can see, children drinking cow blood instead of water, oil cheaper than water..
Honestly, or I’ll try and make it in to compost or feed the animals
It's so tough to think of it... I see some of my friends chuck away food because they are full and I have to bite my tongue.. I guess it's a side effect of good living... People really are disconnected
@@kanavkohli794 and their parents are idiots to give birth in such an environment 🙄
@Morris Shark it’s politics and power
This episode really puts life in perspective
That's way everytime I want to complain about something I check myself and remember how rich and abundant I am
🟦 SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE JOE ROGAN🟦
I can't get enough of it on spotify
That's really funny because she is a FRAUD: ruclips.net/video/LUtY7tMiozM/видео.html
@@donbilligatti3004 She is a FRAUD. Even her mother exposed some of her lies: ruclips.net/video/LUtY7tMiozM/видео.html
This was a lot but needed 😢😣😣❤
Yeonmi getting emotional - “Somehow rats eating human eyes first, for some reason…”
Joe whispers- *PROBABLY BECAUSE THEIR SOFT…EASY TO EAT*
Thats some Dwight Schrute shit, right there.
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Loved that. Hope it didn't f to much with her, but that comment accentuates the horrific nature of it all.
"It's probably because they contain a precursor to DMT....."
She looks so weird with those bulging eyes 👀
This is a must watch. One of Joe’s most impactful podcasts.
No! We are too worried about billionaires flying their own personal spaceships into space. Forget about the fact that there are over 30 million starving fellow human beings.
not podcast, episode
I recommend listening to Lex interview her on his podcast about a month ago.
@@mobpsycho5207 The Joe Rogan Experience is no longer a podcast? Spotify calls it a Podcast maybe their wrong :(
Have you seen the video
Elon Musk meets Post Malone
It’s hilarious! 😂 😆
this is a historic podcast, calling it
Without a doubt.
BIG FACTS this is the spark that will wake the "woke"
Call it what it is. The most loudicrous bs I ever heard. "Mountain of bodies in hospitals eaten by rats, rats then eaten by kids, kids to hen for, and them eaten by rats too.."
Come on ..what are you? 5?
@@parapoliticos52 She's not the first person to speak of the horrors of North Korea. Glad you have life so good that you cant imagine this being true.
@@parapoliticos52 heard the same from all the defectors.. Same thing during the nazi regime.
Well, my unpopular opinion is that we, as western countries stop sanctioning North Korea. I understand their government is unstable, but the citizens are the ones suffering the most. Threats of war has driven them war crazed!
It's so heartbreaking to think that everyone who knew this brave woman even her old neighbours have now disappeared to concentration camps and worse. Her story comes at a human cost and needs to be heard.
It's even more heartbreaking to know that our tax dollars are causing starvation!
@Rocko As many as my tax money covers :)
He is an Evil Dictator who needs to be stopped , We should Go in with Nato and Liberate The Koreans from This TYRANT...!!
@@markg9749 So is China's Xi but we are in bed with him. So is the Saudi prince...same for him...see how this works? Pre-sanctions, his father was also a dictator, but his people were not starving! Starvation is a direct impact of US sanctions!
Yet we praise the LGBTQ community for being “brave”😔
I really wanna give her a hug. The dread and sadness in her story. I can’t even imagine going thru even half of the things she’s seen.
@@ninjawannabe87 bro what
@@ninjawannabe87 holy fucking down astronomical and catalysmic
@@ninjawannabe87 relax dude. You doing too much.
She is a scam, look into it
@@ninjawannabe87 bruh LMFAOOO
Uncommon amongst uncommon women. Yeonmi park’s story is a must for everyone to hear. Keep in mind she started to learn english 5-6 years ago. That’s mind blowing in and of itself.
@Cortez stop copying and pasting the same thing on multiple comments!
5/6 years to learn English is impressive? Maybe it's impressive for an American to learn another language...
@Cortez Very well said. A lot of people aren't even thinking about reality anymore.
@Cortez because you've been there right?
@@michaelorr7808 not about her and that article has no sources and taking dprk’s video as evidence is super shady
We don't know what a priviledge life we are living until you hear about another person's experience. I am in tears just listening to her life's experience and what she and many others have to go through just to survive.
She probably didn’t feel compassion not because she lacks it, but because her whole life shes been in survival mode. What a horrific story to hear though. It makes me appreciate my life here in the USA more 🙏🏼♥️✨
The enormity of it was simply more than a little girl can cognize. She didn't feel it because she couldn't internalize it.
its more like her story is fake actually, do you think a person who escaped such conditions would do all that plastic surgery?
not likely
@@fdr100100 the stupidity in youtube comment sections is usually mindblowing but what you said is just outright insane. Those mental gymnastics would put a downsyndrome spiderman to shame
No shit sherlock
@@mratlas7876 Must numb your feelings.
This was so rough on Joe he didn't even get around to telling her what he eats.
Was waiting for him to mention the Elk meat
Gonna be drinking milk after seeing those..well hung...
He didn’t dare ask if she’s ever smoked DMT
He was to busy staring at the milkers
😂😂😂😂
This podcast is the wildest shit i’ve ever heard in my life. Holy fuck. Straight up chills.
Omg I can't 🤮🤢
This is the Left DREAM society. They are salivating over the new ideas they just heard.
For real.
Welp....
I'm scared
I'm disgusted at our world leaders, no one is calling for Kim and his fellow leaders of the regime to be tried and executed for crimes against humanity.
I'm crying right now...
Holy cow. Hearing this firsthand gives me chills.
Have you seen the video
Elon Musk meets Post Malone
It’s hilarious!!
👽 😂
@@brittanym2080 LMAO!! OK THAT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY FUNNY!!
@@Chris971. She grew up during the North Korean Famine of 1994-98+ when up to 3.5 million people died and everyone was starving because the country simply didn't have close to enough food. A fictional story about that would be to claim that she didn't see frozen bodies in the streets
because you are a Pleb and would buy a condo on Mars you and Rogan just got Punked ruclips.net/video/wiCSd_9vgVw/видео.html
I normally listen to these podcasts when I’m driving, and once I finish an episode I go about my day. Not this one. This one left such an impact on me that words cannot describe. People NEED to hear her story. It needs to be spread like wildfire.
She is a pathological liar.For money of course. There is an actual video clip of her mother from a Korean show that she admits they were never hungry, or she doesn't understand where these rumors of famine came about as soon he never seen anything to allude to that, thus she doesn't believe they are true.In her presence!
But the daughter learned she can make a career out of saying the most loudicrous things to gullible Americans like you.
Don't forget to buy her book and make a donation.
@@parapoliticos52 Yeah yeah anything that goes against the Liberal narrative is all propaganda, lies, conspiracies. Even if she lied, she’s bring attention to the atrocities North Korea and China are doing to their own people. Now go back into your scared little bubble ok? Thanks
@@parapoliticos52 jealous?
@@parapoliticos52 Found the chinese propaganda agent ;)
@@parapoliticos52 people want a story to feel concerned for to make themselves feel good
“Fish in the water don’t notice the water.”
Damnnnnnnn
@not #ot good for you
That effed me up
You dont notice the air do you...
pea brain
peas in a pod don't notice the pod
Hi Yeonmi! Thank you for all the work you do, your message is so important just like your story. I am so sorry the horrors you and your people have lived thru and are currently living through; I don't understand why these atrocities and crimes against humanity have gone on so long and are still going on?!
Once a lie starts, it doesn't stop itself.
I could hear the pain in her voice and feel like this is the best work Joe has ever done. Every American needs to hear her story. I pray that things will change. It’s truly disgusting that people live like this.
I agree. Every person globally needs to hear it, not just Americans.
you mean hear this story of a paid CIA Propagandist? 😂😅🤣they just Punked you and Rogan ruclips.net/video/wiCSd_9vgVw/видео.html
This is a tough watch but also an eye opener…Thank you Yeonmi Park you are incredibly brave! Puts into perspective how lucky we are in the western world.
A complete lie. Her mother told in an interview that they never starved. She is one of those priveledged NKs escaped to have more pleasure. If you wanna hear the horrors of NK she will tell you all the lies. Hear the real story from real people.
@@Underground.Rabbit Your kind aren't welcome here. This is not a safe space.
To col. Hans landa
@@Underground.Rabbit how many comments are you going to troll?
@@Underground.Rabbit North koreans starve for food and don't even know it, while you starve for attention and know about it. which one is a worse curse.
"I don't know how I felt nothing at that point."
That does not make you a bad person. It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Your blessings are greater now. You can think beyond your own survival, and help others. Thank you for sharing your painful stories. Bless your soul!
Agree. None of us have the emotional capacity to feel horrified every single day.
@Cortez Wats ur point
@Cortez this couldn’t be story’s from earlier times in her life, possibly other instances in her life?
@Cortez Please elaborate. Honestly don't know what you are talking about but I think people would be willing to hear you out at least.
This is Yeonmi telling a very different story: how rich they were and how her mother had Chanel handbags ruclips.net/video/mz3nziy1xO0/видео.html
5:38 "Yeah, Oh yeah, Of course they were catching them with their hands" I love it. She is so real.
I nominate this podcast for an Emmy Award for engaging and amazing stories. There should be awards for podcasts.
Why? Stories are probably just stories
This podcast is super heavy. Definitely one of Joes most memorable.
@@jamesm6469 that is a very privileged statement james . These are real people being tortured , and awareness is all that can save them at this point
@@jamesm6469 stories are probably just stories? What? Why would you say that if you have no reason to not believe her. How insensitive
@@bambaking6265 thank you
Dear lord after this podcast I will never complain about my life ever again I am truly beyond terrified and in shock smh she is literally a strong individual 😥❤️
Don't vote democrat, or it'll be like that here, don't believe me, look at Chicago, California, Baltimore, Portland & NYC there's poop, aids needles and crazy method out bums everywhere followed by plagues and then death/economic collapse....now while looking at those areas which have been voting blue forever, look also at any red state in comparison and if that don't wake you up then you're beyond hope and natural selection is coming for you...
I know NK is poorer than most countries because of sanctions. However there is no such thing as mountain of dead bodies everywhere like this dumb podcast and defector tales are trying to convey. You can literally look up real footage of north korea from channels like SAO documentary and matt travels.
Most of north korea looks better run than most liberal cities in America like san Francisco and downtown la with homeless crisis and poop everywhere on the streets.
@@jonathanroberts2612 Have you been to North Korea? No? Then stfu. There's documentaries and "literal footage" of San Francisco that make it look like a paradise. If your objective is to make it look good then you can make anything look good.
@@jonathanroberts2612 The North Korean government doesn’t allow for you to take videos unless it’s what they allow you to this is someone that’s been in the struggle and knows and North Korean government are trying to paint themselves as a paradise but it’s hell you go live there and keep the same opinion
Complaining isn’t completely bad it’s just normal and it’s perfectly fine to complain about some parts of your life because we all have problems but there are definitely people out there with larger problems, I wouldn’t say your lucky for how your life is now where you live nor would I say you don’t have a right to complain about some parts of your life sometimes, your born in a normal life which is how society should be, just some people are born unlucky and born in literally hell, we need everyone to live a normal life because everyone deserves a normal life, it shouldn’t be lucky to just get a normal life and so I won’t call it lucky because we all deserve a normal life
This episode should be watched mandatory in all American schools to let all these spoiled kids know how good they actually have it.
Not just spoiled kids. Spoiled people.
@ It's the boomers fault. They danced and partied while they did nothing about all of the problems they left for us. Worst damned generation ever.
@@shenglongx We're on the path there ourselves. Won't be long if we don't do something perfectly rational but objectively drastic.
Entitled, lazy brats that don't want to work and think the world owes them. They cant get right.
@@onefortheroad6186 And why are they that way? Are they genetically any different from their parents? Or did they get raised by screens and endless propaganda? Whose fault is that? They're still Americans. We failed them. We all shat on the same toilet seat here.
Also, I am homeless in the United States, I work every day, and luckily I make just enough to stay in a hotel every night and eat once a day. But if I had to see what she has seen, I don’t think I could go on, knowing that people would be walking over my dead body while carrying on a conversation and not affecting them at all. Especially just looking at a young kid like that and that situation. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel lucky being able to eat once a day and most of the time having a bed but still no health insurance. I can’t imagine everything that she has seen. It’s sickening.
As a homeless person, please consider what she is saying and learn media literacy. Your own government does not give a shit about you and the media regularly shits on you, there are people in this country that want you dead. You are being denied a basic human right, while your own fucking government is paying this girl a fuck ton of money to spread propaganda that is easily debunked with basic facts. This is being used as a distraction so people won't think about the horrific conditions in our country, something directly affecting you.
Real life often makes horror movies look like the cartoon network. Glad she made out but great sympathy and prayer to those still live in north Korea. Lets face it , most of us can't do anything. It's not like u can start a go fund me page or something.
What can you do not everyone is a privileged american amirite
@@Blenif omg my privileges
Not surprised when an entire generation emasculates themselves and gets cucked.
Oh wait then you end up like Korea.
@@Blenif Trump was literally the only president actually tried working on doing something about it.
@@Blenif meaning yes you CAN do something. You vote for the leaders who are willing to try, even if the media pretends they’re a “racist”
@@Snarf_Le_Wombat bro what
Man, this made me realize that we Americans are fortunate for everything we have. We probably won't face anything near what she had witnessed for 13 years. By far Joe's most intense episode I've seen.
We could if we continue to think everything sucks here and we give more power to those "leading the country." I came here to escape poverty and violence, and it drives me crazy how people can't see how wonderful it is here. It needs to be preserved and built up, not given away or "changed." That "change" might not be what you think, just ask Lex Fridman.
we are not fortunate at all we fought bleed and died for every progress we have made we the people built this great place our grandparents and forefathers before this suffered and had hardships so that we would not it was not given to any of us it was built up bought and paid for with blood sweat and tears. when you understand that you will get why when that flag waves millions of us will die before we ever see it fall. the truth is their people have never known better and the only way they will get freedom is with a bloody revolution and maybe with a little help they too will pay the price it takes to live in a world that we do but it doesnt come free freedom isnt free. the thought of freedom is the only thing free to become free the rest is paid for with honor blood and hardships just like all places that obtain freedom. the people have to do it theirselves we have learned our lessons interfering with it once in Korea and vietnam and agian in the middle east the truth is some people like the thought of freedom but dont want to pay for the admission of it.
Michael Scott Moore was intense too. But she's incredibly strong. I'd be worried speaking publicly about this but she doesn't care she's getting awareness out there for what goes on in China and North Korea
We will if we continue to let our government take our rights away
@@dirkdiggler7253 eating rats? seeing dead people everyday on the streets? no wifi? no electricity?I could go on. But yeah “the government”
This was one that NEEDED to be on RUclips. Everyone needs to see this full interview. Absolutely horrifying. I was crying at work from listening to this.
Jordan Peterson interviewed her about a month ago and was crying for half the podcast. It’s a tragic reality that unfortunately most people never escape.
Spotify costs nothing Sam
She was demonetized and on the brink of being banned by RUclips.
Lex has a podcast with her too. His take is also what happened to his family in Russia too
@Kwame Nkruma , well, one thing is for sure, you're lying and you've been doing this all the time.
I rarely comment on videos but as an Indian engineering student I know how blessed and fortunate I really am and how trivial my complaints are when there are human beings like u suffering through this.
U r really inspiring especially the way u self reflect presently as an adult on those experiences as a child and where u r now... Kudos..🙌
She doesn't know how to not lie
shes been debunked multiple times by other Koreans. shes just a grifter
proof?@@eyecontrol4900
That TPUSA money is too good
Loser
I knew one compulsive lier. A great person and all, but always telling made up stories.
Joe's exhale at the very end is about all I could muster after hearing that as well.
I was thinking the same!
Please read her book, I'm not shilling for her, I'd happily send you my copy. It's a quick read with more humor and humanity than we'd have any right to expect. And unlike MILLIONS before her and Millions right now, she made it out.
This is the first time I have ever commented on a RUclips video, but wow. How as world we have turned a blind eye to this for so long. God bless this woman and her family. She is the truest example of the resilience of the human spirit I’ve ever heard about. I can only hope this podcast goes viral and we all wake up and demand something be done before this people are wiped off the planet. Great job Joe, this is will undoubtedly be the most significant interview if your career. Truly the Powerful JRE.
We haven’t turned a blind eye that’s thing. we really haven’t known the severity of the situation for all that long when you think about it, because everything that’s comes out of North Korea is controlled by one man and no one else. Makes it a lot harder as well when he’s threatening the countries with nuclear war that threaten him, or his regime, and when trump threatened to “totally wipe them of the map” everybody made it out to be trump trying to start a war and blaming it on his ego, but when In reality he isn’t the one with millions of starving people under his power! It’s not as easy as going over there and giving them food and everything will be fine it’s a lot more complicated than that 🤷♂️
What happened to staying out of other countries problems? Why is it up to the U.S to do something?
@@minority86 It's NOT up to the United States to take care of N. Korea. But it's up to us to understand this is where the Democratic Party wants to take us!
@@k9spjack I know
she is a liar
It’s amazing to see how respectful Joe Rogan is in this interview. This interview is so important and hopefully will reach so many people.
Hes always respectful. Hes a very kind, calm and gentle human.
yeah sure he will get bernie next week to talk how socialism is great
@Artistic IntentionZ that statement you made "changed your life" is almost exact how her story hit me when I first heard it last year in the height of covid on valuetainment pod cast. I say almost cause not sure it changed my life but it sure put my mind on other stuff besides my petty problems. And more to being a hill billy from TN that's has taken my/our way of life for granted for almost 50 years.
@@bitreaktor 🤣🤣 the irony right. We have this lady with the reality and Bernie with a fantasy story of it.
it is not amazing it is a standard behavior when talking to survivor
One time I was on a train. And the train broke down. So we had to push the train. Then we were so hungry after pushing the train and couldn’t find even one single rat. And we had to eat the train.
Joe: Woah, you had to eat the train?? That’s fucking wild man…
@@smittening4508 a fucking Kodiak bear could do it easy
@@smittening4508 Jamie pull up the train full of bears on DMT
That’s on youtube
@@smittening4508 you have no soul
This is one of the most important and heartfelt JRE podcast I have listened to that I can recall. I hope everyone can please find the time to listen to the podcast in it's entirety.
When it's on RUclips... I will, I'm not downloading Spotify
Lol bro stfu it’s a free app yall love complaining that he moved to a free app that you can skip the adds on and still get the video.
The fact that you’re like “I’d rather not hear this information becuase I won’t download an app” is exactly why YOU should listen to her story
@@BaconNMegs lmao privilege at it's finest. If only he could spend 1 day in north korea
@@manlikederek925 you can access spotify in the webbrowser, no download required. Need an account though.
Appreciate every penny. Appreciate every drop of water. Appreciate everything good in your life that you have been blessed with having because there are many people out there who are not fortunate enough to have what you have. For this reason alone, treating those things without respect and appreciation is a terrible thing to do.
Yes. Gratitude is the key to happiness.
Nah, let's complain and say we are discriminated against and demand free stuff instead
*The market is huge for stories about NK that fit a certain narrative pushed by the imperialists*
She seems compromised…… a CIA asset? She’s playing the game quite well. If you’re a minority who looks conventionally attractive and says the same talking points, the GOP and institutional right will hire them on the spot.
There's an article about her from 2014 about her contradictions on the diplomat. Now the excuse made then was, Her language barrier with english. The problem with that statement is she told the same lies in Korean on South Korean TV which baffled the host of the show. The best part is she did a full 180 and when investigated, her real story came out.
On a South Korean TV show Park Yeonmi told the audience that her family was doing extremely well and that her mother was wearing pants that ‘were all imported from Japan’ and added, ‘My mum even carried around a Chanel bag in North Korea.’
They didn't ask her to play any role, that's why it was a shocker to the South Korean public, She did a 180 on what they expected. They never propped her up to be privileged, that crap came out of her mouth after she became famous. So doing a 180 and asking your mom on networked TV "Am I really North Korean, these other people seem poor"!!!
*But after she started being coached by a Seoul-based American anti-DPRK think tank Freedom Factory along with other right wing/pro imperialist Think Tanks / NGO's (Atlas Network, Oslo Freedom Forum, Human Right Fundation, etc) who hired/paid/taught her what kind of horror stories she should tell about the DPRK, her narrative completely changed.* That’s when she started claiming she was so poor that she had to survive eating grass, that she saw dead bodies floating in North Korean rivers (where she previously said to have had fun together with her friends), promoting how she was starved while saying she never was poor? and other gibberish. The host lost his composure and looked confused AF. Then having her mom says "oh those stories of her eating grass ect that never happened." HuH??? was the whole crowd, audience and hosts.
She then became the media darling for several years and her new narrative turned out to be very lucrative for her.
I also noticed that she talks a lot of crap about South Korea and says that she moved to America because they were oppressing her there. I think they were just catching on to her BS and she had to try lower hanging fruit -
To be fair a lot of defectors struggle in South Korea due to discrimination, economic and social problems, etc. a fair amount even want to return to North Korea, and some have. However, I highly doubt Yeonmi faced anything remotely oppressive in South Korea, being a rich girl funded by every alphabet agency in America. It’s likelier that she said something stupid, the South Korean media picked up on it, called her out on her bullshit, and asked her who her CIA handlers are
South Korea tends to be sympathetic towards North Korean defectors, especially if they are ardently anti-North Korea. However, Yeonmi’s story is so full of holes that the South Koreans do not take her seriously, nor do they respect her. *All she seems to do is make up grandiose stories to get more clickbait, and to promote a neocon agenda,* rather than actually helping North Korean refugees. Other defectors want nothing to do with her, and she has been reduced to making all of her content in English because she knows that no Koreans will ever take her seriously again, and that only Americans will believe anything she says (much like they believed Saddam ground people into burgers with a meat grinder and had nukes pointed at America).
The money is to good to pass up, even if that means lying and embellishments. She is not the first to sell out, but so much was learned from watching her blatantly lie and try to cry without crying throughout the whole show.
In a way it's good to have a liar on record when she gets exposed again.
My heart completely shatters for this woman. Her story moved me to tears.
So anyone who comes on the podcast is automatically telling the truth? You fall for the fake news like a sheep
Alright I'll put the lotion down and turn the volume up then
@@davidb9779 lol so shes a capitalist spy paid to spread lies about the wonders of communism.
Its like she's ALMOST as brave as Simone Biles 😂
She's on JRE podcast (and others)...in the States...well fed and safe. Nevermind her (mascara, lipstick, fashionable). Consider all the people left behind, under the Kim regime, right now.
That was very hard to watch and listen to, I’m truly heart broken
I’m glad she has brought to light from the depths of darkness. There is no “bad day”, after hearing her story.
Other defectors have claimed most of what she says is probably false. She regularly works for the NED (an extension of the CIA). It's lies
@@ststst981 Nonsense. You don't believe that when the train didn't work they pushed the train, you know instead of just walking.
@@dickjohnson9582 What the fuck does that even supposed to mean?
@@dickjohnson9582 She’s talking about a subway car and she’s not saying they pushed it the whole way, from one destination to another. Grow a brain
Push the train..that was my favourite next to the walking begging kid with his intestines out of his body dragging Them behind like a tail. Shows you how stupid people really are. Pushing a train..a machine that weights 5 000 tones(with wagons).That's like 1000 M1a tanks. And we haven't factor the friction with the rails.
PUSHING A TRAIN!
Good god the world is doomed.
Joe should release this full podcast on RUclips so it reaches more people
Contracts won’t allow it unfortunately
oh I;m sure Rogan will probably pull it all down after he realizes he was Punked by her and the CIA 😅😂ruclips.net/video/wiCSd_9vgVw/видео.html
Very much agreed; especially with how vast Joe's audience is. This woman is truly courageous, and her story needs to be heard. I truly can't even comprehend a nightmare like that. One of the comments above from @ThePortraitArt really nailed it on the head: "real life often makes horror movies look like cartoon network." And he's exactly right. Her book will definitely resonate with a large group, but if there is a way for this podcast to be published in its entirety, I could see it sparking something bigger.
@@MetalBaller83 her story of LIES she's already been debunked by reputable news sources EVEN other N Korean Defectors are calling 🐮💩on her story especially since she keeps changing her story a sign of a LIAR
@@BubuH-cq6km I didn’t know that. I just saw this one interview; I didn’t go any deeper on it. Even though she may be a liar with this particular story, the fact remains that these kinds of horrible things do still happen in North Korea. It’s a shame that nothing can really be done about it, and it doesn’t help if those who do escape aren’t truthful about their experiences.
Crying and feeling ashamed of myself is not enough to describe how I feel. Thanks Yeonmi and Joe for this podcast….I'm speechless.
Always consistent, she ain’t lying 100%
I knew Joe would get her on the show, incredible and insane story, her story and Francis’s story are probably the most life changing stories ever told in the history of JRE. It goes to show how much we take for granted in the country where we can have normal lives.
I think the most crushing realization while listening to this podcast was that her life was “normal” too. Normal for the people of North Korea. I had no clue about how brutal the living conditions are over there 😔
Have to agree! Francis’s story also really got to me, what a journey they both had.
who’s Francis? do you have a link to that interview?
Well put!
@@TAZS Francis Ngonnou maybe ?
Venezuelan here. It's so incredible how these types of government operate so alike. It's like a script they have. We're just lucky our nightmare began when there was already internet available, otherwise, it would be the exact same thing.
What is it like in Venezuela these days? Has the situation improved somewhat or have things gotten worse over the last year? I'm really sorry for what you are going through, it's so unjust!
My stupid professor was ranting about how amazing Hugo Chavez was and how he's a hero. Look at Venezuela and communism now. Same with USSR, Cuba, and Mao's China. Complete idiot.
@@katharina... It’s always getting worse, today the dictator announced they would be getting rid of 6 more zeros from the local currency. Overall it’s a greatly complicated situation, just thankful it’s not as bad as what’s described in this podcast at least (as of now).
@@dserenity69 Hugo Chavez was just a puppet of Castro and basically gave the country to Cuba. Sadly, if you don’t experience it yourself, you won’t really know. Hell, I know people that doesn’t have anything to eat because of the situation and still support Chavez. It’s crazy.
Exactly, it's like the same roadmap. I am from Myanmar and I am just finding out how the stories are all alike.
I just want to hug this lady. She’s a freaking warrior
Plus great cans
Look up
Joe Rogan gets mad at Alex Jones
It’s hilarious!
Same. I couldn’t even imagine what it was like for her and her family. I’m glad she’s in a better situation.
oh me to 0-0
Her story is probably fake.
I am in tears. I am so proud of your spirit and your wisdom born of adversity. God bless you and keep you.
This just fucked up my day dude. But I needed to hear it. I am so so thankful to be born in the united states. Even with all our issues .
Well, I hate to tell you, but this shit is coming here to America REAL SOON. I'd stock up on food if you can.
And we should all try our best so that our kids can have the same thought in the future.
[Don't make this some political point when it is about trying to not become debilitatingly cynical.]
@@wilb6657 never in a million years. Because the rest of the world has access to Internet. North Koreans don't
@@yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998 yea but government can control the internet, look no further than china...
Listen to her on Dr. Jordan Peterson's podcast for a more in depth and life changing lesson.
Hearing this reminds me of how fortunate I am to live in such comfort. The potential of human indifference within such poverty can lead to such abhorrent conditions it's hard to imagine 😔
We have cities putting spikes on the ground and other flat surfaces to deter homeless a place to sleep out of the weather. We are not that far behind NK. Just look at what the last pReSiDenT mustered up and had attack our capitol. Our propaganda machines need to be put in check or we are right on path to being NK.
@@indiolush just leave already.
@@indiolush
🤣🤣🤣 and you write that while drinking your latte at Starbucks. Fuck outta here!
@@elel2608 like you've never had a drink from SB before... get the Hell out here...
@Kwame Nkruma or maybe she struggles with body image issues. Females typically have higher rates of body dysmorphia.
This is probably one of the most powerful interviews Joe has given. This young American lady speaks the truth. We should listening and take her words, before everything goes to SHIT!
She hasn't even gotten citizenship yet sadly. She's just more American in spirit than a lot of actual citizens.
Agreed. Joe Rogan gets better all the time. Incredible interview. I cannot stop thinking about North Korea.
@@Dreikoo Still american in my book. I hope she feels that way too. Like just Imagine the pain of being from a place so dead and rotten that you can't even have any pride in calling it home. Sad shit, feel for the poor girl.
Do you really believe that a boy has its intestines out of his body like a tale while begging for food?
Amazing!
Are you a bot or plainly intoxicated by those fake Mellons as bad you aren't paying attention to the incredulous nonsense this hack is spouting
@@parapoliticos52 yeah starving and the baps on her then maybe she fleed young
This is absolutely heartbreaking 💔 😭
This is by far one of the most insane interviews I’ve heard in a long time. Glad Yeonmi is still speaking side of her story of her over coming so many obstacles and still be here to share it.
Update: Chinese/North Koreans bot have invaded my comment section. Feel free to ignores those since it’s SOOOOO FUCKING obvious who they are.
@Cian MacGana how so
She does a much better interview with Jordan Peterson
Check it out
Not to say North Korea is not messed up but I don’t believe this lady. As someone who speaks English as second language, her English is just too perfect given the time when she started learning the language. Google it, there are inconsistencies in her stories as she keeps changing the details over the time. Like when she said she escaped without her dad, in other interview she said she escaped with her mom and dad etc. Other defectors also said her stories are exaggerated. Idk, I would take what she said with a grain of salt. If her stories are true, then north korea is hell on earth, and the leaders need to be assassinated.
@@hendilim4757 If I recall her story, she claims to have escaped and returned, therefore escaping multiple times. That could be one reason for some discrepancy for instance dad vs mom&dad. As to her English, it has improved greatly, I've heard her on some other videos where it's hard to even understand her, at least to my ear, and her vocabulary has improved too not just her pronunciation.
@Kwame Nkruma hey if i had been through whay she been i be the same. Hell American women do it and they havent been trough anything close to what she has seen
Just listened to the entire podcast and when Ms. Park said her son being born in the United States was like winning the lottery, brought a tear to my eye. Joe I think Ms Park is one of the strongest warriors you have ever had on. Exceptional podcast. May her father rest in peace and my our country go back to what she envisioned in her dark times. So thankful she's an American now.
How is she an American
@@sirenwavemtv8334 becoming a citizen, that’s how you become an American, not just been born, I’m so grateful to have come here 16y ago. I don’t even pass for a mill of she went thru but I know how great is this place.
@@diegodesouza9697 right but just because you consider yourself an American due to your citizenship doesn’t mean she does
@@sirenwavemtv8334 you are right, I thought you mean she couldn’t be an American. It was my bad.
@@diegodesouza9697 nw
what an incredible person . Hands down, one of the best guest ever.
Absolutely.
Check out the one he did with abby martin and the miserable life people live in Gaza
It's petty similar too
Probably the worst place to live in after north korea
@@sadeksama5057 not the same. Gaza borders both Egypt(largest muslim arab nation in the world) and jewish muslim mixed Israel of wich both are much more open and individualistic than NKs neighbour China. None of the countries want anything to do with ultra nationalistic zealous Hamas.
@@DeVill3007 @Jennifer Delgado I live in Moscow near the North Korean embassy. I remember walking from school to my home and I had to cross the street where on the other side the North Korean embassy is.
Before crossing over I see these two short men wearing identical clothes and looking around walking towards the crosswalk. I knew immediately they were North Korean and I confirmed this because I watched them walk into the embassy.
When I stood next to them what waiting at the traffic light they took two steps back from me. I was 16 at the time and they looked middle aged but we're much shorter.
I can't imagine what you have to do in order to work abroad as a North Korean diplomat in Russia which is a free country.
@@dragospahontu
Seriously...
How would Kim Jong Un trust them enough to leave the country...?
Know what I mean?
Maybe they are too brainwashed to disobey?
*(edit)*
How is living in Moscow by the way?
In Turkey you pay for the ice cream and then the ice cream man pretends to give you the ice cream and then takes it away and you starve
Such tyranny, and the rest of the world just watches. Let's pray for 🙏
Well played, well played. 👏
'In Turkey we genocided Armenians and act like that never happened '
The most important person to visit any podcast this year. Her bravery and spirit is stronger than what most humans have in an entire lifetime.
I have a big... BIG... BIIIIGGGGG... muscles!!! HAHAHA!!! What did you think I was going for? That's so DIRTY of you! GAGAGAGA!!! I am the funniest RUclipsr ever! Maybe that's the reason why I have TWO (!!!) HOT (!) GIRLFRIENDS. Thanks for being alive, dear he
This story shook me. As a child growing up I listened to my grandpa talk about the horrors of the Korean War. The last days of his life he wanted closure from that war and it always made me feel helpless to his war effort. Imagine nothing changes even after the most bloody war in history, that most never known! There has to be an end.
Stop invading people?
park is fraud. look it up
Without a doubt North Korea is an oppressive hell hole, but Yeonmi Park is not considered a reliable source on the matter. She repeatedly contradicts herself and other defectors have plainly stated that her stories are often exaggerations or just downright fabrications. Yeonmi Park herself has had to retract a lot of her own claims, stating that it was due to poor memory because she was very young (she defected when she was 13 years old) or because of language barriers. Initially upon converting to Christianity, she claimed that her escape from North Korea involved climbing tall mountains in freezing -40 degree Celcius without any winter clothing and that she managed to do so because of the warmth and love of Jesus Christ. Of course it turns out there aren't any mountains between where she lived and China, it's mostly flat. She then said what she meant was that they had to climb over hills and didn't know the word for hills in English... but this contradicts the fact that she made those same claims in Korean, her native language.
Her own mother, who defected with her, has come out and said that many things that Yeonmi claims are just untrue, such as that she witnessed a public execution of her best friend's mother for watching James Bond (which never happened and Yeonmi has had to retract that statement), that she was forced to eat grass due to starvation (her mom says that was never the case and that their family was actually well off, at least by North Korean standards) and overall just other bogus claims that are not only unsubstantiated by other defectors, but often times contradict her own claims and can verifiably be debunked.
So why would she fabricate this? Because she is being incentivized to do so by right-wing think tanks (such as the Atlas Foundation) who are using her as a pretty and innocent face to spread propaganda that left leaning politics will result in a North Korean style authoritarianism.
Why should we care if some of what she's saying is exaggerated? Surely North Korea is a horrible place, so what if she's taking certain liberties? Because she's not the only defector, but she's one of the few defectors anyone will listen to because she's willing to bend the truth, create a sensational story that causes the audience to suspend critical thinking, and then when the audience is in a heavy emotional state, push the political agenda that she is being funded to promote.
The sad truth is that unless people are willing to create heavily sensationalized narratives of their experience, then no one really bothers to listen to them, so the only people who get attention are the ones willing to play loose with the truth.
That was not the most bloodiest war lol there was a genocide in africa that killed 2 million people
@@Shel230 don’t forget the big WW2