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With the fervour of the newly-converted Yeonmi after several years adjusting to life in South Korea which seems to have some of the most racist people in the world living in it, went to Costa Rica, a missionary herself with an American group.
She finally gives in to rape when a big Chinese "gangster" offers to help her entire family if she sleeps with him. As Yeonmi Park mentions in her book, “We all travel our own desserts, no matter where you come from. No one, and I seriously mean this, nobody in this world should ever experience the shits that Yeonmi and her family go through to achieve their freedom. Park is now studying criminal justice in South Korea and working as an activist, most recently speaking at the One Young World summit in Dublin and at the UN Human Rights session on North Korea. In the meantime, the love theme is casually inserted in the story, when a rich, smart, cool and older (I am running out of adjectives) kid falls for the 13 year Park, despite the social class gap.Following precarious years of hardship and malnutrition, Yeonmi at the age of only 13 escaped from her country with her mother in March 2007. I’d read previously of the struggles first encountered by North Koreans during their assimilation into South Korean life, however I wasn’t fully aware of the prejudices, and also the lack of understanding, that Yeonmi faces on encountering native South Koreans. One is left to wonder what would be best for North Koreans, especially since most appear less than truly happy, if one is to believe the accounts that Park offers herein. Yeonmi's experiences provide valuable insights into the lives of those living under oppressive regimes, and her story encourages readers to be more compassionate and aware of the struggles faced by others. But after five years of practicing being free, I know now that my favorite color is spring green and my hobby is reading books and watching documentaries.
She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe. What follows is the now typical, and harrowing, tale of starvation and desperation to survive in a country that doesn’t care for their own outside of the elite. At the same time she's also letting us know that in the darkest situation, there’s always hope to be found. When viewed in its entirety: escape, survival, and victory - this story definitely has a miraculous component.While video chatting she meets a nice South Korean guy who flies to China to simply help her with some money. Yeomi Park is born into a subsistence-level existence in North Korea which is reduced to almost lower than that when her father, a smuggler of metals, is sent to a labour camp.
They were both sold on again and became friends with another North Korean illegal immigrant and planned their escape. But Yeonmi's struggles were only just beginning as her mother was almost immediately raped and then they were bought and sold, and abused by successive waves of human traffickers. Until that time, Yeonmi "had always thought that being free meant being able to wear jeans and watch whatever movies I wanted without worrying about being arrested. They need to control you through your emotions, making you a slave to the state by destroying your individuality, and your ability to react to situations based on your own experience of the world.
Because I wrote it not only using my own memory, but using my mother’s memory, my sister’s memory, using the memories of the people who escaped with us. Park rose to global prominence after she delivered a speech at the One Young World 2014 Summit in Dublin, Ireland — an annual summit that gathers young people from around the world to develop solutions to global problems. Park explores the treachery that awaited her in China and a life that paralleled the agony of North Korea when she found herself being trafficked.
But we are repeating history – there are thousands of testimonies, you can see the concentration camps from satellite photos, so many people are dying. There were times when I wondered whether, if it wasn’t for the constant hunger, I would be better off in North Korea, where all my thinking and all my choices were taken care of for me". There are links to articles exposing “inconsistencies” in her story, questioning her intentions and authenticity because she can’t keep her story straight. However, her father has a great sense for business, and starts smuggling gold and such out of North Korea.She said she buried her father alone at 3 am yet her mom says they paid two people to help them bury the body. While many take freedom for granted, Park offers an interesting perspective of South Korean freedom, which might provide much sobriety for the reader. As far as the book goes, whether it's true or not, these things happen to people escaping North Korea - women and children are sold, people are beaten and tortured, people ate grass, people witnessed executions and loved ones starving to death.
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