Yeonmi Park - Escaping the Horrors of North Korea & the Kim Dynasty | SRS #54

Yeonmi Park is an activist and author who fled to the United States after being a victim of sex trafficking. Park recounts her oppressive childhood in North Korea, starved and without electricity. She remembers how the lights of neighboring countries gave her hope for a better life. She spares no detail when explaining what a society under a ruthless dictator, mass killings, and delusional propaganda looks like. Yeonmi takes us through her harrowing journey being smuggled out of North Korea only to meet a new terrifying reality - the Chinese sex trafficking trade. Park speaks frankly about the realities of survival in captivity and the pain she carries with her still today. We wrap up with her rescue by missionaries and her first brush with freedom in Times Square. Yeonmi illuminates some hard truths and warns of the signs of communism seeping into the United States. ????↘️ Shawn Ryan Show Links ↙️???? Newsletter - https://shawnryanshow.com/pages/newsletter Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/VigilanceElite Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shawn-ryanshow/id1492492083 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5eodRZd3qR9VT1ip1wI7xQ?si=59f9d106e56a4509 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnryanshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryan762 #vigilanceelite #shawnryanshow Yeonmi Park Links: While Time Remains Book - https://amzn.to/3UxPUat Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yeonmi_park/ Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://hvmn.com - USE CODE "SHAWN" https://meetfabric.com/shawn https://mudwtr.com/shawn - USE CODE "SHAWN" https://mypatriotsupply.com 00:00 - Introduction 04:46 - Upbringing 08:51 - You can own nothing 15:07 - Research to make dictator live forever 17:02 - Public executions 21:41 - Religious now 25:37 - Food shortages 32:11 - The Kim’s copied the bible 33:47 - How do you keep cult thoughts at bay? 37:29 - TV in North Korea 41:18 - Phases of starvation 45:19 - Making people criticize each other 56:39 - Trafficked into China 59:18 - “North Koreans are bizarrely innocent people” 1:02:30 - Woman trafficking her trafficked her own daughters 1:04:06 - Trying to find her mother 1:07:59 - China buying North Korean Children for organs 1:08:14 - Trafficking 1:16:31 - Seeing home for the last time 1:19:59 - How does Yeonmi handle these bad memories? 1:24:31 - Reunited with her mother 1:28:22 - More horrors of being trafficked 1:30:21 - Conserving water 1:32:07 - Yeonmi’s father dies 1:35:15 - Escaping a murderer 1:42:30 - Saved by missionaries 1:47:55 - “I always wanted to be a mother” 1:58:29 - American compassion 2:01:00 - Having gratitude 2:10:28 - Learning to date 2:14:15 - United States adopting North Korean tactics 2:22:31 - Pandemic logic 2:29:37 - If North Koreans had guns - 2A