Yeonmi Park
Park Yeon-mi (Korean: 박연미) is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014. She came from an educated, politically connected family that turned to black market trading during North Korea's economic collapse in the 1990s. After her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling, her family faced starvation. They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia. She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe. Park rose to global prominence after she delivered a speech at the One Young World 2014 Summit in Dublin, Ireland — an annual summit that gathers young people from around the world to develop solutions to global problems. Her speech, about her experience escaping from North Korea, received 50 million views in two days on YouTube and social media, with a current total of more than 80 million. Her memoir In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom was published in September 2015. from Wikipedia
2 Books Written
2007. Apres des annees de privations et de harcelement, par une nuit glaciale, Yeonmi, 13 ans, et sa mere reussissent a traverser le fleuve Yalu qui marque la frontiere entre la Coree du Nord et la Chine. Elles laissent derriere elles leur pays natal et ses horreurs: la faim, la delation constante et surtout une repression impitoyable. Mais leur joie n'est que de courte duree. Rien ne les a preparees a ce qui les attend entre les mains des passeurs. Apres plusieurs annees d'epreuves inhumaines et un periple a travers la Chine et la Mongolie, Yeonmi atteint finalement la Coree du Sud.A 23 ans, Yeonmi est desormais une combattante: c'est l'une des plus influentes dissidentes nord-coreennes et une activiste reconnue des droits de l'homme.
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
by Yeonmi Park
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.In While Time Remains , Park sounds the alarm for Americans by highlighting the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.