579: Yeonmi Park | A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show · Jordan Harbinger
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Show Notes
Yeonmi Park (@YeonmiParkNK) is a North Korean defector and activist whose harrowing experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Catch up with part one here!]
What We Discuss with Yeonmi Park:- Why there's a black market for poop in North Korea.
- How the people of North Korea are kept isolated from the outside world to the extent that they use a different calendar, have never heard of Shakespeare, and don't even have words for "oppression" or "love."
- How North Korea's guilt-by-association policy can carry punishment for people who are within several generations of someone perceived as offensive to the regime.
- Why Yeonmi finds being on the North Korean regime's official kill list to be "liberating."
- How long it might take to watch Titanic in a country that only turns on the electricity for State holidays (and the ultimate penalty for getting caught doing so).
- And much more...
Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/579
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