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Yeonmi Park

Human Rights Activist & North Korean Defector

Human Rights Activist & North Korean Defector

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Yeonmi Park Biography

Twenty-one-year-old human rights activist and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. The BBC named her one of their Top Global Women.

Born in Hyesan, North Korea, Yeonmi grew up in a society devoted to the worship of Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and hatred for enemies of his regime. However, after watching a pirated copy of the film Titanic, the veil of tyranny began to fall. Yeonmi had caught a glimpse of a free world that one day she would yearn to join.

In 2002, Yeonmi’s family suffered a crucial blow. Her father, who smuggled gold, nickel, and silver, before being caught, was tortured and sentenced to 10 years in a forced labor camp. After his early release on medical leave, the family decided they had to flee North Korea, but became separated before they could escape together. In 2007, Yeonmi and her mother crossed a frozen river into China, hiding from Chinese authorities who would return them to North Korea. Two years later, they reached the Mongolian border and spent a freezing night in the Gobi desert, dodging patrols and crawling through barbed wire to seek refuge to South Korea.

Yeonmi has taken it upon herself to tell the story of millions, urging the world to recognize the oppressed people of Kim Jong-Un’s reign. She believes that change will come through young people like herself, whose exposure to capitalism and Western media is eroding the authority of the Kim dynasty.

Yeonmi has published an op-ed about North Korea’s “Black Market Generation” in the Washington Post, and has been featured on CNN, CNBC, and the BBC, as well as in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Yeonmi is writing a memoir about her escape from North Korea called In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom to be released in the fall 2015.

Yeonmi Park Videos

  • What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park
    "North Korea is unimaginable," says human rights activist Yeonmi Park, who escaped the country at the age of 13. Sharing the harrowing story of her...
  • BREAKING THE MYTH OF NORTH KOREA| YEONMI PARK | 2018 ...
    As a child, Yeonmi Park lived as part of North Korea's elite until the regime punished her father for selling items to China and banished him and ...
  • Yeonmi Park talks about defecting from North Korea - YouTube
    Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector who has authored a book about her escape — first to China, where she was sold into sexual slavery, ...

Yeonmi Park Books

  • In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

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