A now 29-year-old deflected from North Korea when she was a teenager.
However, she was sold for a few hundred dollars and was sex trafficking in China. Then, she became one of the North Koreans to live in America in 2014 and now is an American citizen. However, she remembers the regime very well and sounds the alarm about America.
According to NY Post, They were in Manhattan, living in the freest country you can imagine, and theyre saying theyre oppressed? It doesnt even compute, Yeonmi Park told The Post of students at her alma mater, Columbia University. I was sold for $200 as a sex slave in the 21st century under the same sky. And they say theyre oppressed because people cant follow the pronouns they invent every day?
Her book, titled While Time Remains, points out many of the concerning similarities she sees in Western culture and the regime that she thought was far behind. She points out everything from hypocritical elites to the victim mentality she sees. She tells readers they must keep the darkness at bay and reaches out for help so that nothing happens to her newfound home.
This isnt the first time that shes made headlines. In 2015, a book titled In Order to Live: A North Korean Girls Journey to Freedom became known nationwide because she compared the regime back home to the woke culture she saw at Columbia University.
During a recent interview, she spoke about what it was like to escape actual oppression only to meet elite college students who wanted to have a victim mentality or say they were oppressed to get brownie points. She said, They need to do injustice out of thin air or a problem out of nowhere because they havent experienced anything like what other people are facing in the world.
Perhaps she has a point. When many other countries look at the problems of the United States, were accused of being bored. Maybe if more people in the country knew what it was like to suffer the way many others have, theyd realize how lucky, and not quite oppressed, they are. Im not saying that people arent oppressed, but there is plenty that isnt who they claim to be.
The author also spoke on cancel culture, which reminds her of when she was young and words like hunger were banned. If she said them, her family could be executed. According to her, when we ban what people can say, we start saying what they can think, which is dangerously close to brainwashing.
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