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Yeon-mi Park (also stylized as Yeonmi Park) is a 21-year-old (October 4th, 1993) born North Korean defector who escaped her country, North Korea and is currently in South Korea. She was once part of a ruling elite in North Korea. After her escape in 2007, she works as an activist, a reporter, and a speaker, but she also works as a celebrity on talk shows and TV programs for the cause of North Korean refugees.

Park Yeonmi
File:Yeonmi Park in a hanbok.jpg
Born (1993-10-04) 4 October 1993 (age 31)
Hyesan City, North Korea,
Occupation(s)Human rights activist
Talk show host
Celebrity
Reporter
Speaker
Park Yeonmi
Hangul박연미
Revised RomanizationPark Yeon-Mi

North Korean Life

Early Life

Before Park Yeonmi escaped to South Korea, her life was normal in North Korea under the influence of the Kim Regime. Park was born in 1993 in ]in Hyesan, North Korea. She was born to her father who was a civil servant who worked at the Hyesan town hall as part of the ruling Workers Party, and her mother who was a nurse for the North Korean Army. Yeonmi has one sibling, an older sister, Eunmi. She was born during the new reign of Kim Jong Il and the Great Famine, claiming the lives of 2.5 million people. During Kim Jong Il’s reign, citizens were to follow strict rules such as, attending public executions to make an example of those who would dare to betray their country. As a young child, Yeonmi didn’t see anything wrong with the strict rules like public executions. Yeonmi said to The Sun, “I saw lots of executions. I didn't have that much feeling. I justified it that we were killing bad people." Her mother stressed the importance of not doing anything that would cause trouble with the North Korean authorities. The government couldn’t provide the North Korean people life support, so her father acquires gold, silver and nickel from the middlemen of North Korea to illegally trade to the Chinese. Her father is arrested in 2002 and was sentenced to a 17-year sentence at a labor camp known as Kwan-Li-So. Yeonmi’s normal childhood life was shattered when she and her mother heard about his arrest.

Escape from North Korea

Reasons

The North Korean regime has a strong propaganda machine that kept the its citizens in line because of their strict laws, Yeonmi’s father was arrested for illegal trading and he was subjected to harsh labor. Park Yeonmi was taught like other North Koreans to respect the Kim Dynasty she always thought as she said to Al Jazeera, "our leader loves us. He is trying to protect us from the Americans, the evil country," 24 hours a day.” Her views of the Kim Dynasty changed when she watched a pirated DVD of the 1997 movie, the Titanic, which made her realize the oppressive nature of the North Korean government. The movie taught her the true meaning of love and gave her “a taste of freedom.” The realization of the Kim Dynasty’s oppressive nature was furthered revealed when she was invited at 9-years old to witness the execution one of her mother’s friends for selling DVD’s and watching a James Bond movie. The North Korean Government to this day will not tolerate anyone viewing foreign media instead of viewing media approved by the Kim regime and the Worker’s Party.

Passage to Freedom

Yeonmi realized that there are problems occurring in North Korea after watching the Titanic movie, so Yeonmi and her family escaped this country from the oppression of the Kim Regime. Yeonmi’s father bribed his release from Kwan-Li-So in 2005 in order to get medical treatment. He was diagnosed with colon cancer while in the camp. When reunited with his family, they planned their escape to China in order to escape the oppressive government of the Kim Regime. Unfortunately, her older sister, Eunmi left for China early without notifying them. Yeonmi and her family escaped North Korea, by traveling through China with the help of brokers who smuggle North Koreans into China. Chinese and Korean Christian Missionaries also help them into Mongolia. The South Korean Diplomats also help them into South Korea. Yeonmi and her family escaped the oppression of the Kim Dynasty by going through China, Mongolia and into South Korea after.

China

North Korea is the neighboring country of China, Yeonmi and her family escaped North Korea by crossing the border into China. On the night of March 30, 2007, Yeonmi and her mother crossed a frozen river and then crossed three mountains into the Chinese border with the help of a broker. Yeonmi’s father stayed behind in North Korea because his illness would slow them down. In the Chinese province of Jilin, they tried to find Eunmi by asking the smugglers her whereabouts, but they were unsuccessful and assumed Eunmi was dead. One of the people’s smugglers threatened to report them to the authorities if Yeonmi didn’t have sex with the smuggler. Her mother intervened for her safety by offering herself to the smuggler, who raped her in front of her. A few days later, Yeonmi’s father joined them worrying about their absence because he was worried about his family. They sought shelter at a great-aunt’s home outside of Shenyang, China. Their shelter was in poor condition and they couldn’t pay for running water. That’s when they came to realize, China’s living conditions were as poor as North Korea. On January 2008, her father died at age 45, from the cold and from the colon cancer. To keep their profiles low they bribe a local cremator to destroy his body. Then they buried his remains in a nearby mountain, “there was no funeral. Nothing, I couldn’t even do that for my father. I couldn’t call anyone to say my father had passed away. We couldn’t even give him painkillers, (Yeonmi).” After the burial they rode a bus for two days to a Christian shelter headed by Chinese and South Korean missionaries in the port city of Qingdao, China. The city has a large population of Koreans so they managed to blend in. With the help of the missionaries, they took their chance to flee to South Korea via Mongolia. Yeonmi and her family risked their lives to cross the Chinese border to escape North Korea, they may have lost two of their family members, but the hospitality of the Missionaries gave them the chance to find freedom in South Korea.

Mongolia

Yeonmi and her mother travel to Mongolia from China to board a plane on bound to South Korea, but they must take risks for them to reach Mongolia. In February 2009, after receiving aid from Human Rights activists and Christian missionaries, Yeonmi and her mother journeyed to Mongolia to seek asylum from South Korean diplomats because the diplomats were the only ones in Mongolia who can transport them safely into South Korea. They traveled through the Gobi Dessert. When they reached the Mongolian border, the Mongolian border guards stopped them in their tracks and they threatened to deport them back to China, Yeonmi recalls how at this point she and her mother decided to kill themselves with their own knives, “I thought it was the end of my life. We were saying goodbye to one another (Yeonmi).” Their actions persuaded the guards to let them through, but under custody at a detention center at Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. On April 1st, 2009, Yeonmi and her mother were sent to Ulan Bator’s Chinggis Khaan airport to fly them to Seoul. Yeonmi was relieved to be free at last, the Daily Telegraph reports, “Oh my God, she thought when Mongolian customs officials waved her through. They didn’t stop me.” Yeonmi and her mother risked their own lives trying to reach South Korea via Mongolia, but they’ll have to do what they must to escape North Korean oppression.

South Korea

Yeonmi and her mother made it to South Korea by crossing through China and Mongolia. With the help of brokers, Chinese and Korean missionaries, and South Korean diplomates, Yeonmi and her mother made it to South Korea and they’re getting used to their new life style. Yeonmi and her mother had difficulty adjusting to their new lives in South Korea, but they managed to find jobs as shop assistants and waitress. Yeonmi continued her education. On April 2014, the South Korean intelligence service discovers her sister, Eunmi, who is now 23 living in Seoul Korea; Eunmi escaped to South Korea via China and Thailand. Yeonmi and her mother finally reunite with Eunmi. Yeonmi’s experience of freedom in South Korea is difficult to adjust to, but there are opportunities that await her in her future.

Life After North Korea in South Korea

Life in South Korea gave Yeonmi the opportunity to express her sadness and anger to the North Korean oppression. She used through public media such as talk show podcasts, TV programs, activism, and the news press to talk about the suffering she experienced in North Korea. She advocates for human rights in North Korea and the reunification of the entire Korean peninsula. The Kim Dynasty targets her as not only a defector, but as a threat to their power. Still, her fractured life motivated her to keep going when she said to her detective, “because my name, Park Yeonmi, is my legacy from my father… if I die, I’m okay… I’ve already experienced my freedom (Yeonmi).” Yeonmi’s freedom is compromised by the North Korean regime, but her new career can motivate her to fight North Korean oppression with the media and human rights activism.

Education

Yeonmi works as a human rights activist and a celebrity while continuing her education in South Korea in 2014. Yeonmi enrolls in Dongguk University in Seoul as a third-year student and majors in criminal justice. In her spare time, she taught herself fluent English by watching a Friends series DVD box set and watching YouTube videos. She also took interests in Bastiat, the classical-liberal economics, and the Communist Manifesto. Furthermore, she is widely interested in her freedom to think and do whatever she pleases because being away from North Korea gave her the opportunity to experience freedom. Yeonmi’s new learning experience in South Korea has give her the opportunity to use what she learned from Dongguk University to testify her fractured life in North Korea.

Activism

Since escaping, Park has written and spoken publicly about her life in North Korea, having written for the Washington Post, and has been interviewed by The Guardian. Yeonmi uses outside knowledge from Dongguk University and in her own time and to support her role as a human rights activist. Yeonmi joins human rights organizations to convince the world to support their struggle to free the North Koreans from the Kim Dynasty. Park Yeonmi volunteers to become involved in activist programs such as being a media fellow for the Freedom Factory Corporation, a free market think tank in South Korea. She also became a member of LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), a nonprofit organization that rescues North Korean refugees hiding in China and resettling them to South Korea and America. On June 12-15, 2014, Yeonmi attends LiNK’s first summit at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, she and the other North Korean activists, Joo Yang, and Seongmin worked in sessions and labs, educating participants in the conditions of North Korea and how LiNK can support the refugees. Park Yeonmi takes part in LiNK’s campaign, the Jangmadang. The Jangmadang or the “Black Market Generation” is a campaign that focuses on black marketing in North Korea selling food to the oppressed as well as influencing the North Korean people about their government’s oppression through electronic media, she records her story on video to contribute for the campaign. This campaign stretches from September 25 to December 9, 2014. Park has also been outspoken about tourism in North Korea, as they are encouraged to bow to statues of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, which she sees as " the regime’s propaganda by allowing themselves to be portrayed as if they too love and obey the leader.” Yeonmi works as an activist to direct the world’s attention to the human rights abuse in North Korea.

Celebrity

On My Way To Meet You

Yeonmi works as a celebrity and stars along with other North Korean defectors in a South Korean TV program called, On My Way To Meet You, a chat show mixed with talent quest and musical broadcast. This show is about telling the truth about North Korea and mocks the North Korean regime. She’s giving the South Koreans insight about their life of abuse in the North. The show is broadcasted widely in China and North Korea, although the North Korean government’s propaganda machine tries to sway their citizen’s away by claiming that they’re all South Korean actors pretending to be North Koreans, and they also claimed that the South kidnapped the North Koreans just to force them to say lies about them. As an activist and a celebrity she stars along with the other North Korean defectors to give the world more in-depth about life in North Korea.

North Korea Today

Yeonmi works as a cohost for Casey Lartigue, a talk show host of the podcast, North Korea Today. This podcast discusses about North Korean topics and the life of the refugees after their escape. Yeonmi volunteered for this opportunity to make the world become aware of the repression of the North Korean refugees and how people can take action for their need of freedom. They hosted five episodes of the podcast to show a clear understanding of the positive and negative sides of North Korea. As an activist and a celebrity, Yeonmi works with Casey Lartigue in broadcasting a podcast to provide more in-depth information about North Korean repression to the world in order to gain international support for human rights in North Korea.

Reporter

Yeonmi not only worked as a celebrity and an activist but also as a news reporter to write about the occurring events happening in North Korea. Yeonmi became a reporter for New Focus International, a newspaper company run by former North Korean Propagandist, Jang Jin-Sung. She and the other North Korean defectors use connections from the defectors to receive credible information from North Korea to write and publish articles on North Korean related issues. As a celebrity, an activist and a reporter, Yeonmi uses the press to spread the word of North Korea abuse on human rights and their current events.

Travel Abroad

Ireland

As a celebrity and an activist, Yeonmi travels to Ireland to present herself to the human rights organization to discuss about her life as a North Korean. In October 18th, 2014, Yeonmi attends the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. The One Young World is a non-profit organization that brings together the young generation of the brightest and best people to address the global issues facing their countries, companies and communities to the world, and then the delegates and councilors can develop solutions for these problems. Yeonmi speaks about her life in North Korea and how she escaped the country. Then she pleads to the world to turn their attention towards the human rights abuse of North Korea. Yeonmi attends the One Young World summit to discuss about the human rights issues in North Korea.

Norway

Yeonmi travels to Norway to speak about her life in North Korea, and the methods used to advocate for human rights and change in North Korea. In October 29, 2014, Park Yeonmi was also invited along with some other speakers, such as another North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee, to present themselves to the Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway, a human rights conference that brings together notable people such as activists and prisoners of conscience to networks and exchange ideas to bring awareness for human rights abuses to the world. In her speech, she talks about how the “Black Market Generation” can change North Korea and giving the opportunity to see the outside world. Then she compares George Orwell’s book, the Animal Farm to the Communist Manifesto, saying that reading the two books is the freedom to read opposing ideas and that the North Koreans deserve freedom. At the end of her speech she quotes on one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s sayings, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere (Martin Luther King Jr.),”and then she asks for a global involvement to end the Kim Regime and free the North Koreans. Yeonmi attends the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway to discuss about her involvement with the Jangmadang and the topics on freedom to advocate for human rights and change in North Korea.

Crticism

Yeonmi’s activist and celebrity career encourages people from South Korea and the world to focus on North Korea’s abuse on human rights and change in North Korea, but there is some people who do not believe in her testimony. Some people such as Swiss born businessman Abt, and a North Korean analyst, Bassett questioned Yeonmi’s backstory. Swiss-born businessman Felix Abt questioned the veracity of Park's account of her life, claiming statements such as seeing dead bodies floating in the river each morning were highly exaggerated. Abt claimed to have not seen floating bodies in rivers but conceded that there may have been floating bodies in rivers during the 1990s when, according to a U.N. official, 600,000 people starved to death. Park stated the statement in question resulted from a misunderstanding by a journalist of what she had said. Michael Bassett, a North Korea analyst, claimed that Park was a liar and a spokesperson being fed a narrative meant to bolster the case for sanctions against the country, and that Park wants to promote the idea that North Korea is still in the 1990's. Park responded by calling Bassett childish and impossible to engage in productive conversation. She noted the numerous reports of brutality out of North Korea and lamented that dismissing defector testimony could stop others from coming forward.Yeonmi defends her backstory and her struggle to make people understand what she’s trying to do for her people so that she and the other North Korean defectors can continue the struggle.

Beliefs

Unification

Yeonmi’s believes that there are positive and negative possibilities for North Korea to be reunified with South Korea. Park Yeonmi doubts that there would be any chance of reunifying the Korean Peninsula because they don’t desire it; the South Koreans discriminate the defectors for being illegal immigrants to South Korea. She believes that there are neither northerners nor southerners in Korea, just Koreans themselves. She also presumes that there's a possibility that there might be a chance for reunification if North Korea dissolves in the same manner as the Soviet Union. Yeonmi believes that the South Koreans can set aside their differences with the North Koreans and North Korea might collapse like the Soviet Union to reunite with South Korea.

North Korea

Yeonmi believes that change might occur in North Korea as long as she and the other North Korean defectors continue to advocate for human rights in North Korea. According to the National Review, Yeonmi presumes that, “the regime adjusts, as the Chinese Communists and the Vietnamese Communists have done. That would allow the North Korean Communists to hang on for untold years longer,” therefore the Kim’s would be able to focus on their people, and then they would be able to become more opened to the world. As long as the Jangmadang remains active, more North Koreans would be able to expose themselves to the outside world, and question their meaning of life. Aside from Yeomi’s hope for Korean unification, she presumes that North Korea can change like the other communist states in Asia to be more open to the world and progressive.

Kim Jong-Un

Yeonmi considers Kim Jong-Un as a cruel leader to the North Korean people for continuing the abuse of his own people. Park Yeon-mi considers Kim Jong-Un as according to Al Jazeera (Qatar), the same as his forefathers berating him as, “a criminal for killing 80 people in one day for watching a movie or reading the bible. This young man is so cruel. He ordered that people who attempt escape should be shot.” According to the Telegraph, Yeonmi believes that he must be punished for not just oppressing them, but toying with the lives of his own people, because she’s determined to raise awareness of his terror, the people deserve better than the life they’re living in and that as long as the people draw their attention to her cause nothing lasts forever. Yeonmi believes that Kim Jong-Un is nothing like his forefathers as he constantly abuses her people and she demands freedom for the citizens North Korea.

See also

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External links

Works Cited

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  • Gupta, Priyanka. "Escaping North Korea: one refugee's story." Al Jazeera (Qatar) 17 Oct. 2014: Points of View Reference Center. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.
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  • "Marked woman; As a young girl, Yeonmi Park endured with her family a perilous flight from the horrors of life in North Korea. Now an activist in the south, she knows she is still not safe from the murderous regime of Kim Jong–un. Tom Phillips hears her harrowing story. Photographs by JeongMee Yoon." Daily Telegraph (London, England) 2014: Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 2 Nov. 2014,
  • Nordlinger, Jay. "Witness From Hell." National Review 66.21 (2014): 41. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 1 Nov. 2014.
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