UPDATE 01 (23/01/2024): Hello, everyone. You may notice that the intro segment for this video has been muted, and that's because it is! I recently received a copyright claim from the friends over at the Elite Alliance Music on behalf of one Alexander Tolstov. Even though I was taken aback by this claim, considering that I found this track under the name "Princess Lia - The Box," I decided that the hassle of resolving this issue was not worth the effort. I would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Moving forward, I will be more careful where I source the music tracks for my future videos. Yeonmi Park - An Alternate Reality (feat. Your Local Witch) [2] Coming in Q2 2024 Stay tuned.
"Mongolian border patrols tried to rape me". Mongolia was the actual route for many refugees to make escape to South Korean embassy. Because of the false allegations now they will sometimes send them to North Korean embassy. Thank You Yeonmi Park.
@@TankEngine75 it’s reality people like this video creator think that human nature is naturally good. It’s not. People are selfish and self serving. I don’t think Naomi is lying because most of her claims were from when she was a child you expect a child to fully understand every child understand everything going on when your a child!?!? This is prime example of American Wokism and real grifters try to defend themselves by trying to point and claim those who point out their lunacy as the crazy ones.
It's probably how she makes her money. She doesn't have to work as long as she keeps making videos talking about how horrible Communism is, on behalf of America. 🥴🇺🇸 Because aside from the book deal... where else is her money coming from? She wrote ONE book. And it wasnt Harry Potter. Her book wouldn't have sustained her forever. She probably cashes checks from the U.S. govt every month. How does she afford her fancy apartment & wardrobe otherwise? It's the only explanation, for real.
I've noticed in the course of my life that people from terrible, traumatic situations tend to swing towards the extreme on the opposite end. It's severe black and white thinking. They struggle with finding and accepting balance. Balance is actually perceived as dangerous and the opposite extreme is seen as safety. So her severe swing from a totalitarian NK to supporting hypercapitalism in America doesn't surprise me.
I think you're missing the point. For all we know they could be hard core communists or social Democrats but these are vulnerable people from an isolated country living in a new world with little friends or family connections. At any point they could be denied citizenship or deported back. So of course alot of them will exaggerate the turn around.
You’re right. It’s weird as hell how she’s constantly praising capitalism. But honestly, to someone who has had the experiences she claims to have had, why wouldn’t she? She knows no nuance, because her situation doesn’t allow for it...that is, IF she is telling the truth about everything. I suppose we still don’t know.
Criticism of North Korean defectors isn't being pro North Korea or ignoring their very prominent and real human rights violations (to put it mildly). Hope more people realise this one simple thing.
Yeah. I noticed that some of her videos were weird. At one point I think she claimed there was a coup and that Pak Jong-chon (he was Vice Chairman of WPK CMC I believe at the time) became the new "supreme leader". And her opinions are clearly very right-wing as she has bad experience with many leftist policies such as free and universal healthcare or education and so on. I get why she is scared of the left-wing, but she is sus sometimes. (I am a progressive leftist to be clear)
I used to follow her diligently. I'm nonpolitical so it didn't bother me when she appeared on right wing platforms. But throughout the years, the alterations to her story and escape, inconsistencies and nonchalance over the flaws in western countries. Its unavoidable that she is become a grifter and is indulging in her fame and infamy. But there is no denying that she went through hardships and shouldnt have experienced it. Yet I wish she chose a path less dirty than the one she is on now.
@@praneetarao I've noticed she's gotten very into Western looks and makeup. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but it does fit with how she sees herself as a celebrity.
@@praneetarao She started with plastic surgery with the resettlement subsidies provided to her in South Korea, and even after coming to the United States, she had dozens of plastic surgery (including boobs job) with the money she earned through the sympathy and compassion of the American people, so of course her appearance has changed.
It’s a lot easier for me to speak to the people in my home then it would be for you to considering you don’t know where to get in, how to get in, what language we speak et cetra. You can apply this logic to this topic. As much as it’s exceedingly rare There is still ways to contact folks in NK and being from there herself It makes it a lot easier She’s detailed how it works even Phones come in illegally over the Chinese border then they have to take burst short phone calls along a massive hike to basically prevent getting caught while still remaining within reception zones..
I’d also like to note that not much changes for the citizens of NK. You work, starve and praise Kim. Occasionally you all come out to pretend to be a real place because Dennis rodman is coming to town 😂
@@Canzary and she revealed that for the sake of podcast endangering the lives of who’s literally giving her infos 🧐? And for a really short time like 30sec she got that much info bout what’s happening inside the government?¿ somethings seems very off if you use " common sense " further questioning her validity I used to admire her…..
Please keep in mind, Yeonmi Park’s story(ies), no matter how false or exaggerated they might be, do not apply to all North Koreans. The experiences of one individual North Korean defector do not speak for all North Koreans, and just because Yeonmi has lied and exaggerated her story does not mean that all North Korean defectors are lying about or exaggerating their experiences.
Lmao idk man america as a tendance of paying people to lie for propaganda e.g that girl ask to invade Iraq who wasn't even Iraqi and white Cubans who have never lived in Cuba saying how bad things are there without even knowing anything about Cuba, but yea some defectors are true and have valid points
@@blondezeke6640 There’s North Korean defectors in South Korea, Japan, Europe, etc, and their experiences are all pretty much the same. Also, look at a satellite image of the Korean Peninsula at night, it shows that there’s a MASSIVE disparity between the quality of life for North Koreans and South Koreans. There’s more than enough resources and evidence to show that most of what North Korean defectors say is true.
I watched her channel a little bit last year, but she lost me pretty quickly. At first I was very sympathetic towards her when I listened to her stories, but I started noticing things that didn't make sense. She addressed some peoples' complaints about workers' rights(or was it healthcare or sth like that) with "If you don't like the USA then go live in North Korea" as if people cannot criticize their country ever. I noticed from some of her statements that she lacked compassion for poor people in the US. You would think someone who had to struggle with food would feel sorry for others with the same problem, but no. Then she also made a video about Squid Game and tried to make it about NK. Like, from all the things she could choose... It is a SK show about south korean people dealing with poverty in their capitalist country, not about Kim Jung Un regime or wthatever the hell. I guess she really needed to come up with content that day.
I’m not surprised about the lack of sympathy for other poor people who go hungry. I have relatives who grew up in poverty and used to go to bed hungry but eventually was able to get good job and became well off. They look down on poor people who go hungry and their reasoning was that “they are poor because they don’t work hard to better their circumstances. They didn’t well study in school to get good jobs. And they don’t work hard to get out of their situation” Nevermind the fact that every person’s situation is different….. but they just say everything else is just “excuse”….I don’t understand this mentality but I guess because they manage to get out of that situation so they think other people can too
One of the characters in squid game is from the North and was a pretty major character. North Korean defectors in South Korea suffer tremendously which is a big problem in South Korean society as North Koreans are in poverty in the south so North Korea is relevant within squid game.
@@tjb5522 You are right about the NK character's importance to the story, perhaps I oversimplified my summery of the series too much. However I'd argue that even her story is more about trying to survive in SK and struggling with that. But that's besides the point. In her video Yeonmi was saying that this series shows how the North Korean society works, which I cannot agree with. As this series is literally a critique of South Korean problems (regardless of whether you agree with this critique).
I just want to point that South Korea isn’t a capitalist country. Corporations aren’t capitalist, they are collectively owned businesses (contrary to capitalism which promotes individual ownership), and are states in their own right. In South Korea’s case the corporate state is a result of heavy government intervention in the economy which has led to a centralisation of the means of production the hands of the corporation and the government. The way the South Korean and North Korean economies operate are a lot more similar that you would think. Being poor in North Korean and poor in South Korea are due to the similar reasons, a centralisation of power into the state.
@@StetoGuy Sure, sure. Crony Capitalism is when bad things happen and Capitalism is when "good" things happen. Piss off will you, Capitalist apologists. This is all just Capitalism. This is the natural outcome of Capitalism. Face it! Let me ask you: how do you make a living ? What is your job?
She’s the pinnacle example of oppression olympics gold medalist, using her own experience to diminish anyone else’s oppression that she doesn’t understand nor she cares to learn
It’s weird how she tried to change squid game’s message. I see people saying art can mean anything and doesn’t have 1 singular meaning but in this case it’s weird.
Human rights does not matter, what the f you on about, America basically ruined the Middle East, and nothing happened to the Maestro of said invasion Bush, being led by Kissinger, same War criminal, whom illegaly prolonged war in Vietnam, just to promote Nixon. The USSR trampled upon Her, using Her as it was The Motherland, Satelites citzens right, and even now the Kremlim keeps ups this Tradition when you think of the war in Georgia, The Ukrainne, and disputes over Kuril island with Japan. China incarcerating any kind of unfitting individual, which is not ethnicaly Han, Uyghurs and other minorities. It is a meaningless Fight, as Protagoras used to say : The Mighty have the Right and justice, you can Whine all you want, but most so called Human Rights Orgs are owned by Either the States previously mentioned or Big Coorp.
A person with a less-than-ideal education is suddenly released from severe oppression and isolation, and is given seemingly endless freedom and a feeling of righteousness and power. It's really not a surprise.
I think her original status as a more “privileged” person in North Korea could have also shaped her reality. Trauma, coupled with unhealthy adulation is a recipe for personality disorders. I mean just ask any former child star 😬
@@nightowl7261 Technically the commenter would not be lying. The past is no longer reality, so if there is currently no word for love, then it's not a lie. She merely expanded on her point with more context to answer someone's question.
I think it makes sense that Yeomi to start grifting. If you grew up in a traumatic situation, you can be manipulated very easily. Yeomi started out truthful but I think the right wing saw someone they could use to push propaganda. Yeomi lying now doesn’t mean North Korea isn’t a terrible place.
i used to watch yeonmi a couple years ago and i stopped because there was a visible shift from educational content about nk to right wing rhetoric, it was scary
As fascinating and horrific I found her tale, two things really made me question her credibility. First, how she went from being practically illiterate ( only one year of formal education) to being excepted into a highly competitive South Korean university in one year. And crossing a desert in 24 hours in -40° weather without proper clothing, with 8 other people and no one died. I find those two parts of her story totally unbelievable. At best, her story contains massive exaggerations. At worst, she is down right lying.
I just Watched a podcast Si È sai that Si È sent from Being at a 2nd grande trading level at a teen and world Java ha to graduate at 28.But at 21 sia ways already a junior in university? HOW?!
Yes agreed. I thought the same. No matter how hard you study, it is IMPOSSIBLE to cover 12 years of study in 1 year and pass all examinations, when apparently she was barely able to read. 3 years maybe I'd believe. But 1 year, no. She'd have to be a genius with photographic memory and study 247. People study like slaves in SK for years to get in. She did not do it in one year.
She would have worked really hard had luck on her side. And we cant say she is lying to the core without living the way she did. We only hear the abstract.
You guys need to stop. This is shameful. She was under Christian missionaries in China who risked their lives to help her. As much as she criticises Christianity because of their questionable rules, she still thanks them because it was through the Pastor that she experienced true love with no attachments for the first time in her life. Missions are known for good education/bible study but you wouldn't know that in the West.
Good work exposing that grifter But to point out one thing regard that confusion about south Korean DVDs and James bond movie. Its possible that she was referring to DVDs obtained from SK, because it's common to trade at the border, to china ripped korean movies with Korean subs or voiceover. Which sometimes also happen to be Hollywood movies with Korean subs or voiceovers.
I used to follow her ages ago and she had noticeably shifted in personality, dress, mannerism, and just constantly grifting the right wing agenda. Even her audience changed from those that wanted to hear from defectors, to hardcore Trumpers. It was always ironic to me when she'd praise him after the man praised Kim Jong Un and still she'd just give him a slap on the wrist but she talks about Biden like he's the second coming of the devil. I used to think it was her husband that got this on her brain as i didn't know about her investor but who knows. I'm just glad the truth is coming out.
She was groomed long before she ever went to the U.S. An associate of the Cato Institute scooped her up and taught her English and public speaking. She’s a direct product of the right wing propaganda machine and it’s been very profitable for her. It’s sad that she’s sold her soul, credibility and any integrity she may have had to become extremely wealthy. She’s fooled a lot of people!
That’s what I can’t understand. Why would you be a part of the Republican Party when they just took women’s reproductive healthcare rights away in about half of the states and if Donnie gets back in, they said they will ban it throughout the country. I think many smart people realize how easy it is to be a right wing grifter because you just have to repeat what they push out 24-7 and then if your attractive, Fox will give you a platform. This is similar to Candace Owen’s who filed a lawsuit against her school for racism that she now says doesn’t exist.
Watch her Jordan Peterson interview where she states she was in Mongolia in below -40C temperatures wearing no coat with a baby. Jordan Peterson from northern Alberta actually familiar with this level of horror reacts accordingly and you see her reaction and realization of what she actually stated. She is filling a needed void for westerners who desire self assertions of living a good life and she’s doing a good job. Exaggerations of horrors do come from something based in reality
I dunno. There's no possible way I can personally confirm her validity. It's just unfortunate that I've been so convinced of ppl's plights only to find out they were emotionally manipulating their audience through deception to make themselves unique and different... I really hope that's not the case here, truly. You'd think she's credible bc she's been on every podcast known to higher conversation. I think she's from the DPRK, I think her story has remained largely consistent but I'm not scrutinizing it either... It would just be a disappointment but I'm not blindly believing anyone.. So far this video lacks substantial supporting evidence and her detractors pick at the same parts of her story.. maybe they're just propagandist props for the north Koreans or CHINESE.
JP is a piece of sh!t. I don't like woke politics but I'll enjoy everytime the "wokes" massacre his good name Edit- i also don't sympathize with this north Korean liar. I sympathize with those north Koreans who suffer in silence, there was one video (I'll be back with the name) a north Korean man told the American reporter "he feels like the US wants every North Korean dead" and he also doesn't like the regime. It's those people who feel like no one is a friend
I always knew there was something weird about her stories! My parents were refugees of the Pol Pot regime, so you can imagine the horror…people lining up to one by one to get shot to form a pile in a mass grave, babies battered into a tree , etc etc. A personal one was my grandma hiding gold in her body cavities so the family could leverage a bribe if they ran into trouble while escaping the country. My family made me go back when I was old enough so I didn’t forget. These kinds of human atrocities aren’t shocking to me anymore and I have so much respect for innocent victims of war. But Yeonmi’s stories, it was always like she would drop shocking details of the story ON PURPOSE just to see a look of sympathy and horror on her interviewers faces and would get progressively horrifying with every interview. It looks so different from the way I’ve seen survivors of trauma recount their stories. Something tells me she was more privileged than other NK and her story too tall for it to be 100% real. Right wing gave her the attention and sympathy she wanted, and they get to to use her like a strawman to say “The western world has no right to fight for anything when people are being as sold as prostitutes and starving like dogs across the world” And what sick person would criticize a brave young woman for escaping a dictator? They’re all psychopathic crooks. She sucks
Or maybe NK is just such a hellish dtstopia you cant wrap your head around how it can actually be this way irl.... Nk IS Shocking! Lest it be a lesson how society can change on a dime if the population doesnt do enought to counter it.
Myself and my father were part of wars to fight for such things as you mentioned in far off countries. Lots of money spent lots of people dead...nothing has changed.
@@zacharydunlap9340 War makes me feel sick. They still keep a tower of skulls in Cambodia as part of a museum. When I was there, I was walking and I got a human tooth wedged in the cracks of the bottom of my boot. I saw several landmine victims hobbling in the streets. You can still feel the impact of it. Im really sorry for you and your pops too. I can only imagine what it was like to actually be there
@@heli9677 Tank you for sharing. I am really surprised they keep that tower up, but maybe it's a good thing to remind us of how much people suffered under that regime. I do believe some wars are worth fighting.
This reminds me of that Chinese "spy" a couple of years ago that defected to Australia from Hong Kong. He named someone in Taiwan as his handler. Anyway, turned out he was just fleeing debt in China, and was eventually deported by Australia. Video: "Chinese ‘spy’ who claimed he infiltrated Hong Kong and Taiwan faces deportation from Australia"
Yeonmi park should stop delving into issues she doesn't understand. She's trying hard to appeal to the American right and this reveals her ingenuity. Saying people goulded her for calling police during a robbery assault by blacks in Chicago is very suspect.
Lol and you don't think that would really happen? You're so stuck in your own bubble that you don't think people who hate white people and anyone who isn't black would get pissed off at someone for calling the police
@@sitlyfeniase3742 She's a sale-out to the very own people she's sought to free from a "tyrannical regime". While she continues to make Anti-Korean propaganda, she also reaps its rewards at the expense of her own people's image.
she used to be a great human rights activist but now… not at all. she needs to properly understand america’s history of being built on racism and stop comparing it to NK
I'm going to provide a very different perspective. I had a traumatic childhood. I avoid talking about my childhood partly because its so difficult to recall certain parts, and the chronology is so off. I am fully aware that it's bizarre that I can recall the colour of a coat I wore when I was 3, but cannot be sure whether my mother left when I was 3 or when I was 8. I fill in the gaps with stories other relatives told me, and other memories which hint at the truth. I bet Yeonmi's memory is all jumbled up like this because she was going through extreme trauma and stress as a child, and the language barrier cannot be helpful either.
Thank you for saying this. I myself don't have any harsh childhood trauma, and my memory is still all jumbled up. I certainly don't remember the age I had my first surgery for my childhood accident. I don't remember how old I was when horrible events happened in my family (one in childhood and one in early adulthood). And I'm still in my mid 20's
I tend to agree based on my own childhood trauma, the average person has no idea a what can happen to the brain. A child’s brain is even more vulnerable to distorted memories including false memories caused by trauma. I’m in my mid 50’s and still struggle with some PTSD triggers.
I thought her channel was really interesting I used to watch it a lot. Then she started comparing social justice warriors to Kim jong-un and was immediately like oh she's a grifter. Edit : yes she is in fact being paid by a conservative think tank
The difference between Kim Jong-Un and SJWs is that one is a dictator who will kill everyone who doesnt agree with him, and the other is an extremist group who WOULD kill everyone who doesnt agree with them, IF they had the power. :P But ofc, not all SJWs are on the extreme side, I guess there would be a few good apples inside the crate.
@@Will-xf3qe It's silly yeah. But its true tho. I AM exaggerating on the SJWs there, but cmon. People in NK dont have a choice but to chastise free thought, cos if they go against the regime, they'll end up being punished. But college kids in the USA do this kind of behavior voluntarily. I have no issues with a person's right to pronouns. The problem arises when misgendering someone can land you in jail. Is that not extreme? Or what about professors convincing students that they NEED a communist or socialist revolution? Coming from a region very close to Burma, I can tell you it doesnt work. We have the same problem here, certain professors convincing students of keeping the Nagalim freedom movement alive. But how can we support the same FREEDOM fighters who extort our businesses and classify us according to stronger and weaker tribes? And these are Socialists. It';s like going back to the medieval serf system. Also I simply dont understand how these college kids in the USA can assume a person like Park, who comes from NK to be accepting of such complicated and fluid 1st-world ideas about gender and social norms. Rather than be inclusive with those who dont understand, the left would rather chastise them. So no, if people claim Park to be a villain, they should at least acknowledge the villainous qualities in the radical left group as well. I'm not classifying you in the SJW Branch as I don't know what your beliefs are. neither am I trying to pick a fight with you. Im just trying to genuinely understand why someone would hate on her of all people, especially when there are larger, more harmful things to criticize. For example, everyone hates on her for inconsistencies but are totally unaware of the fact that Hollywood wanted to make a fake movie on her portraying China as the good guys who helped her escaped, when in reality it was Christian missionaries who helped her escape. And besides, with the recent selfish stunt Biden pulled with the gas pipeline, a stunt that hinders the economic well-being of my own country, and others like mine, HOW is it that no one is criticizing Biden, yet has the time to criticize a NK survivor, honest or not.
@@tunasingot6475i would argue with you but you made like 100 different points there. You've bought into hysterical right wing propaganda. I just think she's obviously being paid by some right wing think tank or conservative billionaires to say that liberals are worse than Kim jong un. Now let me go look into it and see if I can confirm that
@@tunasingot6475 huh how strange who would have guessed. Yeonmi Park is backed by the American Libertarian non-profit organization, Atlas Foundation. The atlas foundation is a network of conservative think tanks founded by Antony fisher who was also a founder of the Fraser institute and many other conservative/libertarian think tanks world wide. What are the odds. Look I just don't even believe she genuinely holds these opinions about social justice, and even if she does she's being paid to say these things.
No one is above being exposed. Especially if they are making money off their audience. I'm glad you called her out. You literally can not just blanketly believe everyone and every story. Everyone has the ability to lie, and their "truth" should be tested for validity.
@@donkeyparadise9276 Exaggerating her experiences and using a very sad situation to her own profit. I only got know about her a week back when I was superficially reading about N.K’s history and stuff, and she has been on my UA-cam feed everafter. At first I really liked her because I found her quite attractive to look at, and she had a very charismatic personality. But shorts after shorts, as I saw more of her I realized she seemed to be too extravagant and prepared in her answers on podcasts and interviews. For example, once she was asked “which is the most dangerous body part in NK” to which she almost immediately replied in very well-strung together sentences which basically implied the tongue. That answer seemed too perfect and poetic to come up with on the spot. She also jokes about Kim Jong Un being her type on another show, while it was funny, I’d expect her to be the last one to crack jokes on him. If she is that terrified of that place, she definitely wouldn’t even dare to make humour of the monster who is the cause of all of her and her family’s misery. There are more such instances. I’ve barely watched a couple of shorts and went from adoring her to realizing she is just exploiting her audience.
@@arishemthejudge6780 i am very concerned about her because a lot of people connect this to trauma and as someone who has at least some experience with this parts of what you described can very well be explained through traumatic sheltering. Everyone is different but girls with high intellect that have had instances of heavy sexual abuse during childhood (for example) behave in ways similar to this IN MY EXPERIENCE and ONLY SOMETIMES. This is only anecdotal but memory loss, memory rearangement, a bipolar world view and an aggressiv sense of humor for topics close to whatever these people have been through is not unheard of. I honestly am torn because i am very critical of stories that benefit anyone when they are believed. But i also feel like there is enough truth to her story that i want to believe the rest because i would rather find myself deceived than to condemn someone who has gone through hell. Language barrier shouldn't be underestimated as well. She was called out for saying she had to pass 4 mountains to cross the border. There were no mountains between her house and the border. She apologized basically immediately and said that you can see the "large hills" through google earth and that she didn't know the difference between a mountain and a hill at the point of her statement. Things like these are so common that we should take them at face value.
Yea. At first she was like "i grew up in a rich family so i didnt see too much of the worst horrors" then like 6 months later she was like "kids were dead in the street". Decided shes completely unreliable after that. Thought i was the only one who noticed. Great job!
She has a point that you guys don't get. I'm eastern European and my family lived under communism. When i see western people complain about pronouns and stupid shit, I always tell them to live in a country with real difficulties and they will stop complaining about crap and reinventing the wheel. That's her point but expressed poorly.
@@RoxyCherryRozy "When i see western people complain about pronouns and stupid shit, I always tell them to live in a country with real difficulties and they will stop complaining about crap and reinventing the wheel." Do you tell this to people who have pronouns or people who complain about pronouns?
@@KSmithwick1989 I agree this is a reach but coming from a country with real struggles about stuff Americans take for granted NOW. Modern Americans don’t have to face the taliban to get an education or escape a country to be free. The issues they do have however sound like they’re just bored.
@@mergenocide it’s obviously directed at the ones complaining. “Boo hoo you got misgendered? Well I was kidnapped and held at gunpoint for something I didn’t even do.” See how insanely different each problem weighs? Yet they’re both described as problems which is why everyone thinks the west should not complain about their minuscule problems
I used to follow her on here and her other social media. She truly was someone to admire, but I did notice she began to change and appeared more and more on right wing programming. That’s when i knew her downfall would begin.
You think she speaks more to the right wing but she came from a left communist hell whole. She literally cannot comprehend how we have all these freedoms and plentiful food but would like to trade that for what she knew?! You consider it right wing programming. Unfortunately she’s speaking her truth and you no longer respect it bc she the left reminds her of NK. She makes great points how people like yourself comment how terrible America is but you have zero idea what terrible really is. All your terrible is 1st world bs when her terrible is being able to eat or her family getting taking away for saying something the regime doesn’t like. Both the far left and the far right will bring down our country if we aren’t careful.
I just asking do you think the opposite happen, have you ever thought the left wings media shadow ban her, like she out right saying communism is bad, you ain’t see it on cnn until recently when they release the tank man video the massacre in tiamen square in China. Think both sides, be a smart middle man. I do not support left or right. She is ex North Korean not American citizen, do you ever think she might face racism in your country ? Just for saying she used to be there?
Ok, I know it's unrelated, but the love song by these two North Korean artists made me cry. Eastern cultures all have this phenomenal, one-of-a-kind way of expressing love and feelings to one another. Trully something broke down along her way... she might've good intentions at 1st, but what I see here seems far off that...
Good intentions? Maybe at some points in her life. She just craves white validation and acceptance. Sells out her own country and peoples to make money off the huge appetite there is for Americans to feel better and superior to others
You are right about that. English music or western music in general doesn't feel as intense when talking about love as eastern does. Perhaps, it's the long history. I swear if you listen to Indian love songs even if you don't know the language, they feel almost spiritual.
I was once one of her Patreon members. Then the things she said, her backpedaling about woke university, the stupid comparisons between the US and North Korea, the blatant avoidance of other cases of human rights abuses, the figures she chose to associate with, made me gradually turn away from her content. I'm glad I did that, since some people seem unable to do it, as seen by the few remaining defenders of Kanye.
@@KtranphotoSorry, non-native English speaker here, I meant "pedaling" not "backpedaling" which is exactly the opposite lol. I meant her constant mention of that supposed issue.
I use to watch her vidoes from time to time but when she criticized Megan Markle struggle and minimized it and compared Meghan’s experience to NK citizens as if any is ok. She doesn’t have to believe Meghan but to minimize people experience is contradictory to her life experiences
I went to a woke University and studied Sociology where I was taught the same things she says she was taught. That part is true, especially in the social sciences.
I remember she once told that being strarved is worse that 'her' being raped but then again in most of her earlier stories she specifically mentioned that her mother saved her from being raped by 'putting herself in her place' wow she really loves her mother
The mother told the guys to use her instead of her daugther she never said it was better her mother was raped what r u even saying??? Tell me: If you had the Option you or your child who would you choose?
@@4crystical129what I'm telling is that yeonmi park lied about her being raped, her mother took the "fall" for her and in the video for sympathy she lied and said she was the one who got *****
@@4crystical129 he isn’t saying that yeonmi was happy her mother got graped instead of her. He is saying that in one story its her who gets graped, and in another it wasn’t her but her mother.
@@tailedbeast7829imo I think it's true that her mother got **** but yeonmi never did she actually mentioned that in many of her videos but sometimes when going through emotional topics like starvation she says that she got ***** for sympathy
Important to mention that Yeonmi (like most N Korea defectors) is financed by right wing think tanks that are directly aligned if not outright owned by the US and South Korean governments (look up the ATLAS Network) and their stories are used to justify certain actions these governments take against the North (US sanctions, S Korea's National Security Act). Their stories have to be highly exaggerated and unrealistic because actually believable stories like "I was homeless" or "living conditions were bad" don't cause outrage and in most cases could also be said for the western countries. Obviously that's not to say North Korea is the ideal society or anything, but it's naive to assume their isn't a financial, and most importantly political incentive behind these defectors and their stories, regardless if they are true or not.
@June Bug shes being sponsored by the us and sk governments to push the western narrative that nk is so horrible compared to the us so americans can continue to support us sanctions and military occupation in korea to this day
Well ofc everyone has financial incentive. Even the president is not free from criticism is he? What with all the ruckus Biden created with the Pipeline? Making it disastrous for people out here in the East while her personally profits off of people's misery? ooooh. Russia gas pipeline bad, Chinese spy balloon bad. I mean, are you even listening to your argument?
I read her book in 2016 when it came out, and obviously it had a huge impact on my understanding of North Korea. It's unfortunate that she lies so often, as I'm sure there is some truth to her stories.
Look let me be honest here she is a north korean defector that is true, but I don't think she defected in the name of safety though, rather I think she did it find a better luxurious lifestyle she gets now unlike her brothers and sisters in the north that would rather live in the lower middle class which she hated but I don't believe her story has any to do with kim jong un or his father, rather how she made more money when she left the country.
@@tyecollaborator5017 Makes sense. Apart from reading her book, I didn't really watch any of her interviews so I didn't know there were holes in her narrative.
@@tyecollaborator5017 she was low class and had no idea what luxury was. I've read this comment from her detractors many times to discredit her. You can tell most were NK based due to grammar and similar wording. Her father's death clearly impacted her and she faced hardship over the years - why not get paid for her story and knowledge?
@@aspookyspookynightI’ve read somewhere else that she was actually upper class. It’s old but I clearly remember this info, weird, I’m gonna look into that. And yeah, she probably went through many difficult things but it doesn’t justify her lying over and over. We can’t even pin point what true anymore.
One thing she didn’t expect was there’s enough people outside of North Korea that have common sense. If you go on record over and over, you gotta keep your record straight. It’s one thing to elaborate further on her testimony, it’s another when that elaboration contradicts other things said previously… that’s when elaboration turns into fabrication. I don’t deny her experiencing a harsh life, but I also can compartmentalize my empathy and claim that she’s grifting off her story. In the end she’s discredited herself. In the end, this hurts the North Korean people further bc it makes people become skeptical of other North Koreans truthful testimonies. Never underestimate politicians and political organizations to exploit people like Yeonmi. She was preyed upon by right wing propagandists at a very young age. She had a resentment towards leftists that she met while in university because her peers who happened to be the left listened to her speak and read her book and noticed the inconsistencies and addressed them to her face. From that point she started to turn on “leftists” because their exposing of her fabrication was going to ruin her chance to grift… she also knows which political side foams at the mouth for war with China and North Korea. So she went the path of least resistance. Yeonmi is now a propagandist bought and paid for to rally and manufacture pro war consent for North Korea and China.
Thanks for calling her out. Her stories are unreal, basically impossible to be truthful. I was a follower until about 3 years ago, when I saw how she makes money of it. I think she sees her self as a celebrity, more than a human right activist.
Havent finished the video but I will say, All the DPRK defectors are in one way or another forced into becoming "right-wing" grifters unfortunately, which is no fault of their own to some degree. North Koreans are heavily prejudiced against in South Korean Society. This prejudice can be in the form of housing or job discrimination etc. Thus in order to maintain a living a lot of these DPRK defectors go on these media tours that pay them exorbitant amounts of money to do what is essentially propaganda for SK & the US. This is not to say that any of their claims about the DPRK are false but they are heavily exaggerated to the point that now its actually increasingly hard for scholars and journalists to determine what is factual and what is hyperbole.
As not being a Korean, or American, or Chinese, this whole idea of right-wing-left-wing is quite amusing.... In a way, North Korean society is dominated by China and South Korean society is essestially controlled by americans... So, both nations are being used to fight a proxy war with one another, for the interest of their respective masters.
The truth about the defectors is a crazy rabbit hole that connects to many cults and alt right movements A lot of defectors where actually kidnapped by cult leaders and forced to say stories where they are payed by right wingers it's crazy
For someone who was upset about censorship in NK and lack of freedom of expression, she seems to have a problem with anything slightly left-wing being expressed. If she were really for free speech, she wouldn't complain about left-wing people having opinions.
@@Remake5182 well all those who support North korean regime in usa or western countries should try to live for 6 month in North Korea like average North korean citizens. And see it by themselves.
43:53 this part was simply beautiful. The best possible response to the "North Koreans don't have a word for love other than love for the dear leader" bullshit.
@@killi1674 i thing that what he/she meant is, that it doesn't make sense not to have the word "love", but still have the word "love" at the same time for the leader
@@adelalovesmadara4062yeah. There’s tons of North Korean songs, movies and books with the word "love" or who are entirely dedicated to a love story. North Korea may be a dictatorship but North Koreans are still humans. Everyone likes to sing,see or write something about love.
I mean she's not wrong. In North Korea, the citizen is merely a prop for the state. Songs, art, poetry, and everything else are all about the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, Dear Kim Jong Il, etc.
Same. Though in her defence I’m an old leftie and often find myself rolling my eyes at the more egregious and silly elements of ‘woke’, but I just keep my mouth shut because there’s nowhere to go other than the alt right. I can see how a person from a totally different culture would have this experience and not know how to navigate it, or now when to keep your mouth shut and pick your poison etc
ok, but putting aside profit, her views now are pretty reasonable for someone with her past. 1) it’s just… ingrained. homophobia, transphobia, etc 2) because she has that experience of north korea, in comparison, the united states are the best country and liberal problems like minority oppression aren’t significant. it’s kinda like when parents say “my parents did this, this and this to me, so you should be grateful i only do that”. we all judge the world based on our experience
I used to watch Yeonmi regularly about two years ago and I liked her, but I started to distance myself from her content for no apparent reason. Maybe subconsciously I noticed the clickbait or the sensationalism, I don't know, but I never suspected in a million years that she could be lying or at the very least exaggerating. Even though I don't agree with everything you said, you make several great points and I thank you for making this video. I especially loved your final thoughts, as I believe interventionism is more often than not very harmful for the little guy and there's always an agenda.
I too watched some stuff of her and I could feel the exaggeration and sensationalism, but tbh I believed it. Now, I guess I will try to be more skeptical
Same. The exact moment I realised she was lying was when she posted a video saying that her sources had told her people in NKPR were beginning to rebel and there were uprisings happening across the country. I looked at a bunch of different news sources, but there was absolutely no indication of large scale riots.
She seems way to happy talking about her past struggles. When soldiers come back from war they hardly want to talk about it afterwards. When ever she mentions a horrible thing happening in North Korea her smile grows like a jack-o-lantern. If what she says is true she’s a Psychopath/Sociopath at best.
Like the person above me said, there is no right way to react to trauma. Have the decency to at least read her story and see the hell she went through emotionally and physically to get where she is today
Love is a universal feeling that can't be taught. I watched many of her youtube videos, but I got a really bad feeling about her when she claimed they didn't know what "love" is.
also, you showed a clip of her saying the beautiful women at gas stations get paid $250 a month, but in another video she says that doctors are poor too and make $1 a day. Wow all the lies. Unbelievable.
Yes in north Korea they had no word to express love, other than for love towards the supreme leader by her a testimony. That's how supressed their society is by the regime there.
@@arlenerivera5570 Romantic love is in some sense a modern Western concept. You're imposing your ideas and concepts on other cultures and behaving like a colonizer. Can you prove that everyone feels love the same way that you do? Go home you imperialist.
Yeonmi Park, a professional victim. Sure she is a defector, but damn did she capitalize on it, capitalized on the pity of others through lies and deception.
My gut and conscience doesn't lie. I knew something was off with her even during her interview with Jordan Peterson. Loved this commentary! It's time to expose her lies. 🤥
I’m glad yt recommended this to me! I remember a year or two ago i came across Yeonmi and her story and I was intrigued. I began to read up on her but I soon saw that there were was many conflicting statements and that her stories just didn’t add up. Like I’m pretty sure u would remember how and whom u escaped north Korea with. Also the fact that she was on a reality tv type show in South Korea along with all these stories makes me think that she is just all about the coin.
Libtards are only saying this because she seems to lean right with her political views. If she was talking about how great communism is and how great radical left-wing censorship is y'all would be kissing her feet. She wants to stop America from becoming like North Korea.
I got really into her story and I was consuming a lot of her content weekly. The more of her I watched the more I started to dislike her but I didn’t want to discredit her because I knew where she came from.
It baffles me at how Ulrich Larsen for performing very dangerous work as an undercover double agent doesn't get nearly the amount of credit he deserves while Yeon-Mi holds the spotlight.
I do believe yenomi's story by large. But what baffles me is how she didn't have proper education in n. Korea and was mostly wrong concepts. (like the 2+2 problem), but yet when she managed to go to s. Korea she studied in less than 3 years and yet passed with flying colors. As we all know south Korea has a very tough education system and is very difficult to get into universities. How did she manage to do that despite going through a psychologically altering ptsd depression filled life. And I'm sure she must have so many other medical problems due to an unbalanced diet and over all poor health. Because if she could do that then she must have a very high IQ and high retention problem or maybe a very good picture memory?
thats what I was thinking too. Like someone who has to relearn everything and got a GED in a year from basically a background of 0 education. like I kinda assumed she has the smarts or even one or close to those photographic memories we rarely hear about. not to mention her learning english. she had to learn so much in such a short period of time.. i feel like she relived everything she experienced and it wont go away. she even says she wakes up to nightmares from nk.. she for sure did not forget her traumas
Exaaactly 🙄 She's always wearing designer clothing, and living in a high rise apartment, etc. Who is paying for all of that? Her book money would have ran out years ago. She's already told every story she can by now... so she'd have to come up w/new ones, in order to keep the finances coming in. I've noticed that all she does these days is push the benefits of Capitalism on people. Clinging to anyone who will give her a platform, which usually ends up being right wing fascists in the media. It's obvious she's being paid to do all of this, and that they are keeping her living comfortably. Afterall, ya can't shill for Capitalism if you're seen living like MOST poor, or Working Class Americans, right??
I have no doubt she suffers from memory loss due to PTSD and severely traumatizing past so I can sympathize with details of some of her stories change. However, I always found it weird how strongly she feels toward gender fluid people and her extreme stances of "sjw's". I feel like for someone who's been through the most intense political abuse can empathize with people but she seems to dismiss or diminish struggles of people in developed countries. Struggles of NK people and ppl in USA are entirely different but they're struggles regardless so I'm confused by her lack of understanding of different struggles.
They ain't struggling in America the stuff we're dealing with are first world problems were people who are spoiled argue about whos the most oppressed 🙄
You realize how futile and stupid this concept of gender fluidity must be to her…manys other countries feel the same way and i dont blame them if you spend all your life in famines wars and abuse so give ger a damn break.
@@josephinepoutine5327 literally. I don't think most Americans realize that other countries are actually not interested in these gender wars. If these trans frog/frogself paints/paint went to Africa or somewhere in the middle east they'd be surprised that's people there won't mess with them. take down they're blm flag off their bio. 😂😂 Some people worry about actual problems other than which pronouns are the best and if gender is a social construct.
I have beeeeeennn saaayyyiinngg this for years! I just mentioned it again yesterday to my husband that in the beginning it was a really devastating experience but it became quite obvious she started profiting from it, from her story. Places she got invited to and people meeting her from the elites, it started to become fishy.
I used to watch a lot of her videos in the past but... slowly started to question everything. Ive noticed some of her details are changing from an old interview to another and I put it off to "Probably hard to remember those traumatic days, I'll give it a pass" but, as soon as I start to notice her clickbait thumbnails and titles I... I just stopped and immediately knew something was wrong. Thanks for the great documentary
This has me shaking my head. I read her book, several years ago, and have watched some of her videos. I'm surprised I missed the obvious right in front of my face. When you lay it out, it makes so much sense. Thank you. Whether it's trauma, intentionally lying to profit from her clickbait-y videos and stories...or some of both, it's incredibly sad that she's been sucked into a life of lying and exaggerating her story, and that of others in North Korea. I wish integrity was valued, but I guess in a world where you're raised lying just to survive, maybe it's all some of them know, and they don't try to learn and live another way. i'm shocked and saddened by this.
True but all i feel is empathy for her regardless knowing these different version stories are coming frm some truth and that’s still terrifying. eating insects getting parents sent to prison and then everything that happened after.
Propagandists what you to believe that one exaggeration (if there are exaggerations) discredits the whole story. It does not. WAY too many similar stories exist, not just of those fleeing NK, but of those fleeing professed 'Communist' societies, that in reality, are nothing less that classic fascist regimes. Are you REALLY surprised people wish to flee from fascism?
As always, fantastic video with such thorough research and a little bit of attitude that has the Parallax signature charm. Proud of you, and the support you are getting is well deserved. I can't wait for your future projects😄
She says the beautiful gas station women stand guarded there to attract a rich man, but she also stated in other videos that nobody can marry upward in their class system. She said if a higher class person marries a lower class person, the higher class person must become part of that lower class they married into. So if there is no upward mobility through marriage then why would pretty lower class women be trying to marry rich men? Makes zero sense.
She was probably a higher class woman, so that’s why it doesn’t make sense. Those ladies probably become mistresses. She herself would become the social class of who she married.
Just the other day an interview with her came on YT and I lightly listened, after hearing her story once. She went on talking about a “boyfriend” and father being in a camp and dying. Only to then change it a good while in the same interview stating she “could never have a boyfriend…didn’t even know what that would have looked like…” then deny that her father ever went into the life camp and instead said he only went to another type of camp that allowed him to get out in a few years and had cancer. Now I’m very intrigued by all of these changes. I did find it strange that there was such an ease at talking about all of this. That could be cultural or just a way of coping, but with as many speaking engagements she’s done, I’ve seen interviews have full breakdowns where she just seems a little too tame, I guess. I don’t know what to believe on this. This is wild
Noticed that aswell, the details about her father keep changing.. she said he died in the camp, but released because he was sick, she also said he was home waiting for her and her mother when they decided to escape, some interviews she said they were reunited in china then her father died months later but then also said he died in a forest crossing Mongolia... I also don't know what to believe, I'll just conclude that her traumatic experience caused her to alter details but still due to her trauma which is undoubtful i would say
I noticed this too. From several podcasts, she mentioned he was already in prison when she was still in NK, but then another one she said he was in prison after she was in china (key point: when she was hospitalised, both parents took her there). It just kept changing
The thing about a boyfriend in NK is odd because that would mean that her neighbours weren't lying in that documentary North Korea did interviewing several people who knew her family a small detail but strange. They made the first one but it lacked in real substantial points but the second one was quite damming on her family
why are people still downplaying or outright denying what you’re saying in this comment section, I feel like a large majority would rather live in ignorance and become blind believers
Because I feel like plenty of people had this misguided notion that if you're criticizing North Korean defectors for their inconsistencies and harmful behavior, then you're automatically pro-North Korea. There's not really much you can do with people like that, I'm afraid - no matter how elaborate and thorough you explain this issue.
@@maradondeamdp7924 you must admit that she made alot of shit up , in recent interview she said that they teach 1+1=1 in school because their leader told them ??? How bullshit is that, how can a country exist without math ?.
@@zo5679 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. NK is a horrible place for sure, and some of what she said may be true, but recently, all she said was an obvious lie that has made NK people look like cavemen..
I have no doubt she faced a lot of horrors in NK. What I take issue with is the fact that she uses her experiences to minimise other inequalities (be it racial inequality, LGBTQ+ inequality).
She didn't experience many horrors, she was part of an elite family. She experienced the life of a normal citizen of North Korea for a very short amount of time, if at all.
@@siohunndai I mean my pronouns are the least of my worries when compared to the fact that 1$ is like 100kL.L I can barely afford shit and I'm super grateful and lucky I can spend my free time here on the Internet
Noo......I am so so so disappointed I supported her so much. This situation and video is incredibly underrated. Thank you so much for bringing awareness
@@pluvia5431 yea many of the people who accuse her of lying are Chinese...just check her comments on her channel. She was very young when she escaped maybe she forgot or lied but these people are trying to prove that north korea isn't as bad as they say and china isn't protecting the north korean regime.
We need more youtubers like you and coffeezilla. Also, one of this girl's latest vids, she says kim jong shot someone 90 times lmao. probably with an LMG or something. I dont understand how dumb she thinks we are.
I think she can make whatever clickbait thumbnail she wants if the actual content is true. Or is her interpretation of footage. Even if the fotos in the thumbnail are exaggerated and not authentic, for me it doesn’t matter. I think it’s okay to draw attention to your video. But what I don’t tolerate are lies.
1:32:17 Excellent ending point. While you might have an (incredibly understandable) urge to try to help people in another country, you will ultimately encourage foreign intervention, which will most certainly be led by powers that have their own ulterior motives, leaving countries/regions worse off (look at the middle east). If you can't guarantee that won't happen, don't push it.
In a way, the sanctions _are a perfect example_ of this foreign intervention-- someone less informed may think "oh we must show it to Kim Jong Un! Impose those sanctions!" which is how it got any public support in the first place but as you can see, the listed items are so excessive that it's built to impose suffering on the people that live there. Most of the people who've advocated for sanctions out of their mouths have never been the ones to even determine that list.
No, I disagree with this. North Korea is not the same as Syria. It pretty much has the worst government of all time (in terms of how it treats it's own people). Pretty much any government would be better.
@bladimir 08 I never said that "Iraq is the worst", you're putting words into my mouth. Not all sceneraios in history are identical, you can easily make very strong arguments that the north korea government is the worst in the world. Also it's very counter-productive to call people who disagree with you "worse than sheep" when you know absolutley nothing about them
@anneboleyn7852 very horrible people and they supposedly friends one of them has a History of beating one Animals for fun , the other one wanted to defend a R*pist in court both spread Western Propaganda about China + SerpentZA had a Chinese wife and had separated from him once because he was just being too Sinophobic.
Bare in mind Yeonmi did address those North Korean Propaganda videos speaking against her. Bare in mind that the North Korean government as you already probably know are very harsh and brutal they probably gave "her family" a script and threatened them with death if they objected to their demands.
Her criticism against liberal politics just does not make sense. Conservative politics pretty much wants to imitate dictatorial states which she escaped from. Yet she supports conservative ideologies. However, I dont feel its entirely her fault. She grew up in North Korea. They have no idea how the free world works. They can easily be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals and that is what happened to her.
Yeonmi's channel is off-the-charts clickbait. Her vids drag on, way longer than necessary, hence racking up more view-time and commercials. Also, she made several political comments in some of her vids which caused me to wonder if she's working with or paid/controlled by right-wingers or that perhaps the channel itself may be a psyop. After just a few videos, I quit watching her channel. Excellent work @Parallax. Like your style of documentary journalism. Subscribed!
her story is all over the place especially key components. did her father travel with her or did he stay back not to hold them back? when the father died was he cremated like she said? or was he carried by two men who were paid off to be buried atop the mountain. like cmon you dont know how your dad was buried? wouldnt that be a significant instance?
False, my memmories from Childhood & Tennager years are quite blurry to me, I find it rather difficult sometimes to retell a story from years ago, it takes a huge amount of effort to put it back together, like a vase broken into pieces.
@@dobrasilaomundo.8086 Your memories, vs shit you're fabricating, all are different and require different things to bring up. If you fabricate shit, that makes it tough, even if it's already tough as it is to piece things together.
@@ParallaxMY Why you wish to discredit the LEGION of those who flee fascism with the SAME STORY makes me think you're trying to convince yourself of the existence of a misnomer that in reality, doesn't exist. Far too many flee fascism and have come to the US for centuries, all for the same reason. There's a REASON these types of stories are legion, and the reverse are nothing less than anomalies when compared to the mean of the whole populations of people who leave their nations. Pure Empirical quantitative data are not subjective. They are real, factual, unopinionated data.
In a traditional sense she still thinks like she's still in North Korea, which is very conservative in a traditional sense. Which is sad that she is the face of the Anti-DPRK movement.
I read her book and it was very sad yet informative. However, when she expressed that people who have an opinion about America as "ungrateful" as well as other things, it made me lose respect for her. No country is perfect and yes, we have our privileges, but that doesn't mean there is no room for criticism.
She spoke out against black ppl protesting because her rac!st behind couldn't ppl behind her cause. Instead of addressing the whyte politicians and whyte ppl who have resources that she hangs around to do something, she decided to come at BLM when black ppl were trying to have a voice. She doesn't fight for human rights, she lies about her cause, and only wants attention on her ppl.
@@Helelsonofdawn No, BLM the ACTUAL ppl who protested for what the saying ACTUALLY means. I knew some lame would try to say BLM was TWO ppl, and try to say the scammers represent the saying and the ppl. What a lame
@@Helelsonofdawn It's not only with the Biden administration. There were criticisms about the country no matter who the commander in chief is. The fact of the matter is that we are all entitled to our opinions and it's ok to criticize something that the government is doing. She as well as others should not downplay individual experiences and claim it as "ungrateful".
Omgosh I'm so happy that I found a talented Malaysian youtuber. Someone who has a made a well thought out video and has actually spent the time & effort to do the research. So proud of you!
malaysia is the hotspot of cancerous liberalism in south asia. Everytime I hear about a gender hustlers, vegan activists, wellness hippies, drug addicts, pro-criminals..etc.. it's always Malaysians. Singapore is so nearby but it's one of the best countries.
@@4cymusic785 well.. Malaysia is Malaysia and Singapore is Singapore. You wouldn't be comparing Mexico and the United States right? Malaysia is a developing country, so of course it has its ups and downs, there are stupid leaders but also some great ones. Talented people and also close minded ones. What use is it to compare people with people, country to country? Does it make you feel better yourself? If it does I recommend therapy, I know some good therapists in Malaysia. So welcome and Selamat datang ke Malaysia
Everyone accepted this woman’s story until she began speaking out against America’s current decline. She lived through the horrors of socialist NK, so why would she not warn the U.S. when it’s government is following in the same footsteps? Just admit you don’t like her politics instead accusing her of lying.
@@ihavenojawandimustscream4681 Somehow I can’t bring myself to believe that a NK defector would have to “embellish” the horror of what goes on within the walls of that country. And I do defend her because her politics are spot on. She escaped from socialism and is warning America to turn from going that route too.
@@hannahwise619 she did, there are articles in US media pointing out how her stories were inconsistent, her fellow defectors calling her a liar,etc. There were many red flags here. This is as far back as 2014 she was already known as a celebrity defector You right wingers out of all people should know that some folks like to embellish their sufferings and oppression to get money and fame
@@hannahwise619 She's getting called out by other defectors, including her own mom. Her making exaggerated claims always the North Korea to handwave it as propaganda. The defector community feels she's just making claims to make money.
UPDATE 01 (23/01/2024): Hello, everyone. You may notice that the intro segment for this video has been muted, and that's because it is! I recently received a copyright claim from the friends over at the Elite Alliance Music on behalf of one Alexander Tolstov. Even though I was taken aback by this claim, considering that I found this track under the name "Princess Lia - The Box," I decided that the hassle of resolving this issue was not worth the effort. I would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Moving forward, I will be more careful where I source the music tracks for my future videos.
Yeonmi Park - An Alternate Reality (feat. Your Local Witch) [2]
Coming in Q2 2024
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blah blah blah you just want views in your video
@@haihai1541 No, it's because Kim Jong-un had finally paid me to make another video on her. Get your facts right.
@@ParallaxMY why haven't you post in 6 months? Your video just randomly resurfaced
@@ParallaxMY💀💀💀 love that response too much
@@ParallaxMYKim is finally digging Yeonmi's grave. 💀💀💀
She is almost unrecognizable from her early viral speech. Her face changed so much
It's called aging
@@InactiveTwig and Botox
No to mention boob job. Vanity is all she cares about it seemed.
@@InactiveTwig no
@@InactiveTwig "aging" from plastic surgery
She looks to be living comfortably in one of most expensive cities in US. A weird feat 99% of population cannot do even with good effort.
Thanks for exposing her. I suspected fraud quite early on. She really sounds like a pathological liar.
Some of her stories are so bs I don't know how anyone would believe them.
@@50_Pence alot of people do which makes no sense
She's raking up the money though! Her net worth is $5,000,000 dollars and she charges $13,000 for an interview.
@@floralfancy7814 no way! Really?
"Mongolian border patrols tried to rape me". Mongolia was the actual route for many refugees to make escape to South Korean embassy. Because of the false allegations now they will sometimes send them to North Korean embassy. Thank You Yeonmi Park.
Is there any proof for this?
Edit: Nearly all the replies are "Yeah! I'm right and they're wrong" I only asked for proof
@@TankEngine75 it’s reality people like this video creator think that human nature is naturally good. It’s not. People are selfish and self serving. I don’t think Naomi is lying because most of her claims were from when she was a child you expect a child to fully understand every child understand everything going on when your a child!?!?
This is prime example of American Wokism and real grifters try to defend themselves by trying to point and claim those who point out their lunacy as the crazy ones.
@@TankEngine75 Just go to North Korea and try her route to proof her wrong then.
@@TankEngine75 as usual "trust me bro" 🤣
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She was speaking about her reality in the beginning. Now she's speaking to cater to those who she profits from.
Then why did she move to south korea
She was raised in a different world anyway.
Yes publically speaking against a dictator is definitely a smart move
@@Ray-eg8ub doesn’t she live in chicago,America?
It's probably how she makes her money. She doesn't have to work as long as she keeps making videos talking about how horrible Communism is, on behalf of America. 🥴🇺🇸
Because aside from the book deal... where else is her money coming from? She wrote ONE book. And it wasnt Harry Potter. Her book wouldn't have sustained her forever. She probably cashes checks from the U.S. govt every month. How does she afford her fancy apartment & wardrobe otherwise? It's the only explanation, for real.
I've noticed in the course of my life that people from terrible, traumatic situations tend to swing towards the extreme on the opposite end. It's severe black and white thinking. They struggle with finding and accepting balance. Balance is actually perceived as dangerous and the opposite extreme is seen as safety. So her severe swing from a totalitarian NK to supporting hypercapitalism in America doesn't surprise me.
Glad u figured it out
But it is just a bit more complicated than that
its ALMOST like foreign people hate socialism so much they leave
I think you're missing the point. For all we know they could be hard core communists or social Democrats but these are vulnerable people from an isolated country living in a new world with little friends or family connections. At any point they could be denied citizenship or deported back. So of course alot of them will exaggerate the turn around.
You're right. I've seen the same thing.
You’re right. It’s weird as hell how she’s constantly praising capitalism. But honestly, to someone who has had the experiences she claims to have had, why wouldn’t she? She knows no nuance, because her situation doesn’t allow for it...that is, IF she is telling the truth about everything. I suppose we still don’t know.
Criticism of North Korean defectors isn't being pro North Korea or ignoring their very prominent and real human rights violations (to put it mildly).
Hope more people realise this one simple thing.
Prove their "rEaL hUmAn rIgHtS vIoLaTiOnS", redditor.
Yeah. I noticed that some of her videos were weird.
At one point I think she claimed there was a coup and that Pak Jong-chon (he was Vice Chairman of WPK CMC I believe at the time) became the new "supreme leader".
And her opinions are clearly very right-wing as she has bad experience with many leftist policies such as free and universal healthcare or education and so on.
I get why she is scared of the left-wing, but she is sus sometimes. (I am a progressive leftist to be clear)
It's not, nobody care about human rights if can't serve their agenda, so they make it a show
@@filiperosa7496 Yeah, Humans Rights are not a thing, if they were Most if not all American Presidents would be hanged.
@@Grisuu I'm not, but this is a fact, human rights don't serve for anything but the interests of great powers
I used to follow her diligently. I'm nonpolitical so it didn't bother me when she appeared on right wing platforms. But throughout the years, the alterations to her story and escape, inconsistencies and nonchalance over the flaws in western countries. Its unavoidable that she is become a grifter and is indulging in her fame and infamy.
But there is no denying that she went through hardships and shouldnt have experienced it. Yet I wish she chose a path less dirty than the one she is on now.
Yeonmi Park is a good example of what can happen when people are afraid to laugh at you.
Is it just me or her face has totally changed from her old pictures?
@@praneetarao I've noticed she's gotten very into Western looks and makeup. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but it does fit with how she sees herself as a celebrity.
@@nmiller4085 but her features have totally changed. She used to look so cute and innocent until 2020.
@@praneetarao She started with plastic surgery with the resettlement subsidies provided to her in South Korea, and even after coming to the United States, she had dozens of plastic surgery (including boobs job) with the money she earned through the sympathy and compassion of the American people, so of course her appearance has changed.
I especially liked when she married a dorky looking guy, got citizenship, and immediately divorced lol
For someone who has been away from NK for so long She seems to be awfully "knowledgeable" and up to date with the bizarre goings on there.
It’s a lot easier for me to speak to the people in my home then it would be for you to considering you don’t know where to get in, how to get in, what language we speak et cetra.
You can apply this logic to this topic.
As much as it’s exceedingly rare
There is still ways to contact folks in NK and being from there herself
It makes it a lot easier
She’s detailed how it works even
Phones come in illegally over the Chinese border then they have to take burst short phone calls along a massive hike to basically prevent getting caught while still remaining within reception zones..
I’d also like to note that not much changes for the citizens of NK. You work, starve and praise Kim.
Occasionally you all come out to pretend to be a real place because Dennis rodman is coming to town 😂
@@Canzary sure!
And also, she is at least half way full of baloney
@@Canzary and she revealed that for the sake of podcast endangering the lives of who’s literally giving her infos 🧐? And for a really short time like 30sec she got that much info bout what’s happening inside the government?¿ somethings seems very off if you use " common sense " further questioning her validity I used to admire her…..
Indeed, don't trust her never did.
Please keep in mind, Yeonmi Park’s story(ies), no matter how false or exaggerated they might be, do not apply to all North Koreans. The experiences of one individual North Korean defector do not speak for all North Koreans, and just because Yeonmi has lied and exaggerated her story does not mean that all North Korean defectors are lying about or exaggerating their experiences.
Lmao idk man america as a tendance of paying people to lie for propaganda e.g that girl ask to invade Iraq who wasn't even Iraqi and white Cubans who have never lived in Cuba saying how bad things are there without even knowing anything about Cuba, but yea some defectors are true and have valid points
@@blondezeke6640 There’s North Korean defectors in South Korea, Japan, Europe, etc, and their experiences are all pretty much the same. Also, look at a satellite image of the Korean Peninsula at night, it shows that there’s a MASSIVE disparity between the quality of life for North Koreans and South Koreans. There’s more than enough resources and evidence to show that most of what North Korean defectors say is true.
A lie is a lie.
@@aperson6089 Yeonmi lied, that doesn’t mean all North Koreans are lying.
@@oh.s i am talking about a lie is a lie. And 2 defectors were already caught lying too about their experience in NK.
In every interview, she has a brand new horiffic story to tell, so we dont get bored of her. She is such a entertainer!
Do you ever notice how them stories sometimes contradict each other?
@@buskingkarma2503 Well it doesn't matter if it entertains us, right?
... Right?
No,, the truth matters very much!
Do oppressed North Korean women know about divorce rape. How would they behave if they could oppress men legally? 🔥
She would make a great fiction writer
I watched her channel a little bit last year, but she lost me pretty quickly. At first I was very sympathetic towards her when I listened to her stories, but I started noticing things that didn't make sense.
She addressed some peoples' complaints about workers' rights(or was it healthcare or sth like that) with "If you don't like the USA then go live in North Korea" as if people cannot criticize their country ever. I noticed from some of her statements that she lacked compassion for poor people in the US. You would think someone who had to struggle with food would feel sorry for others with the same problem, but no.
Then she also made a video about Squid Game and tried to make it about NK. Like, from all the things she could choose... It is a SK show about south korean people dealing with poverty in their capitalist country, not about Kim Jung Un regime or wthatever the hell. I guess she really needed to come up with content that day.
I’m not surprised about the lack of sympathy for other poor people who go hungry. I have relatives who grew up in poverty and used to go to bed hungry but eventually was able to get good job and became well off. They look down on poor people who go hungry and their reasoning was that “they are poor because they don’t work hard to better their circumstances. They didn’t well study in school to get good jobs. And they don’t work hard to get out of their situation” Nevermind the fact that every person’s situation is different….. but they just say everything else is just “excuse”….I don’t understand this mentality but I guess because they manage to get out of that situation so they think other people can too
One of the characters in squid game is from the North and was a pretty major character. North Korean defectors in South Korea suffer tremendously which is a big problem in South Korean society as North Koreans are in poverty in the south so North Korea is relevant within squid game.
@@tjb5522 You are right about the NK character's importance to the story, perhaps I oversimplified my summery of the series too much. However I'd argue that even her story is more about trying to survive in SK and struggling with that. But that's besides the point. In her video Yeonmi was saying that this series shows how the North Korean society works, which I cannot agree with. As this series is literally a critique of South Korean problems (regardless of whether you agree with this critique).
I just want to point that South Korea isn’t a capitalist country. Corporations aren’t capitalist, they are collectively owned businesses (contrary to capitalism which promotes individual ownership), and are states in their own right. In South Korea’s case the corporate state is a result of heavy government intervention in the economy which has led to a centralisation of the means of production the hands of the corporation and the government. The way the South Korean and North Korean economies operate are a lot more similar that you would think. Being poor in North Korean and poor in South Korea are due to the similar reasons, a centralisation of power into the state.
@@StetoGuy Sure, sure. Crony Capitalism is when bad things happen and Capitalism is when "good" things happen.
Piss off will you, Capitalist apologists. This is all just Capitalism. This is the natural outcome of Capitalism. Face it!
Let me ask you: how do you make a living ? What is your job?
What gets me is how she uses her experiences as a way to make other serious topics all about her 😭
She’s the pinnacle example of oppression olympics gold medalist, using her own experience to diminish anyone else’s oppression that she doesn’t understand nor she cares to learn
Bullshit. Yeomni is speaking truth. This video is misinformation
It’s weird how she tried to change squid game’s message. I see people saying art can mean anything and doesn’t have 1 singular meaning but in this case it’s weird.
i love how she's like you have no clue how the pandemic changed the north koreans lives like girl neither do you. you left in 2007.
It's a shame that she turned out this way. She's only hindering human rights efforts instead of helping by lying.
@user-dz8tv4mg5o power of human greed LOL
by beign against a system that kills anyone who disagrees?
@ERRATAS 0202 so great socialists abandon socialism for it
Human rights does not matter, what the f you on about, America basically ruined the Middle East, and nothing happened to the Maestro of said invasion Bush, being led by Kissinger, same War criminal, whom illegaly prolonged war in Vietnam, just to promote Nixon. The USSR trampled upon Her, using Her as it was The Motherland, Satelites citzens right, and even now the Kremlim keeps ups this Tradition when you think of the war in Georgia, The Ukrainne, and disputes over Kuril island with Japan. China incarcerating any kind of unfitting individual, which is not ethnicaly Han, Uyghurs and other minorities. It is a meaningless Fight, as Protagoras used to say : The Mighty have the Right and justice, you can Whine all you want, but most so called Human Rights Orgs are owned by Either the States previously mentioned or Big Coorp.
@user-dz8tv4mg5o Hence Why China also has the same issues, even if Ideologically more Left Leaning, f out of here .
A person with a less-than-ideal education is suddenly released from severe oppression and isolation, and is given seemingly endless freedom and a feeling of righteousness and power. It's really not a surprise.
I think her original status as a more “privileged” person in North Korea could have also shaped her reality. Trauma, coupled with unhealthy adulation is a recipe for personality disorders. I mean just ask any former child star 😬
The jump from "We have no words for 'love' " to a whole song written about love made me genuinely laughed, out loud
I thought that was stupid too. Love is universally shared experience, even animals know love. A regime can’t erase love🙄
@Meari Saotome they seriously dont have 사랑 in their language?? or is it that they just dont use it often?
@mearisaotome2093 and where can we find this NK dictionary?
@Meari Saotome
Lol you speak like Yeomin Park too.
You went from "they have no word for love" to "they used to."
Stick to one story please.
@@nightowl7261 Technically the commenter would not be lying. The past is no longer reality, so if there is currently no word for love, then it's not a lie. She merely expanded on her point with more context to answer someone's question.
I think it makes sense that Yeomi to start grifting. If you grew up in a traumatic situation, you can be manipulated very easily. Yeomi started out truthful but I think the right wing saw someone they could use to push propaganda. Yeomi lying now doesn’t mean North Korea isn’t a terrible place.
And what kind of propaganda are those? I'll help you to understand how the world works beyond your unstable emotions.
@@thedarkdivinity7525🤡🤡🤡
I think you are on to something. She's pathological.
i used to watch yeonmi a couple years ago and i stopped because there was a visible shift from educational content about nk to right wing rhetoric, it was scary
As fascinating and horrific I found her tale, two things really made me question her credibility. First, how she went from being practically illiterate ( only one year of formal education) to being excepted into a highly competitive South Korean university in one year. And crossing a desert in 24 hours in -40° weather without proper clothing, with 8 other people and no one died. I find those two parts of her story totally unbelievable. At best, her story contains massive exaggerations. At worst, she is down right lying.
I just Watched a podcast Si È sai that Si È sent from Being at a 2nd grande trading level at a teen and world Java ha to graduate at 28.But at 21 sia ways already a junior in university?
HOW?!
Yes agreed. I thought the same. No matter how hard you study, it is IMPOSSIBLE to cover 12 years of study in 1 year and pass all examinations, when apparently she was barely able to read. 3 years maybe I'd believe. But 1 year, no. She'd have to be a genius with photographic memory and study 247. People study like slaves in SK for years to get in. She did not do it in one year.
@@penultimania4295 I have wondered how her English is so good.
She would have worked really hard had luck on her side. And we cant say she is lying to the core without living the way she did. We only hear the abstract.
You guys need to stop. This is shameful. She was under Christian missionaries in China who risked their lives to help her. As much as she criticises Christianity because of their questionable rules, she still thanks them because it was through the Pastor that she experienced true love with no attachments for the first time in her life. Missions are known for good education/bible study but you wouldn't know that in the West.
Good work exposing that grifter
But to point out one thing regard that confusion about south Korean DVDs and James bond movie. Its possible that she was referring to DVDs obtained from SK, because it's common to trade at the border, to china ripped korean movies with Korean subs or voiceover. Which sometimes also happen to be Hollywood movies with Korean subs or voiceovers.
I used to follow her ages ago and she had noticeably shifted in personality, dress, mannerism, and just constantly grifting the right wing agenda. Even her audience changed from those that wanted to hear from defectors, to hardcore Trumpers. It was always ironic to me when she'd praise him after the man praised Kim Jong Un and still she'd just give him a slap on the wrist but she talks about Biden like he's the second coming of the devil. I used to think it was her husband that got this on her brain as i didn't know about her investor but who knows. I'm just glad the truth is coming out.
Weird because she criticized the South Korean president for hugging Kim Jong-un.
She was groomed long before she ever went to the U.S. An associate of the Cato Institute scooped her up and taught her English and public speaking. She’s a direct product of the right wing propaganda machine and it’s been very profitable for her. It’s sad that she’s sold her soul, credibility and any integrity she may have had to become extremely wealthy. She’s fooled a lot of people!
Asian plastic surgery really changes personality
That’s what I can’t understand. Why would you be a part of the Republican Party when they just took women’s reproductive healthcare rights away in about half of the states and if Donnie gets back in, they said they will ban it throughout the country. I think many smart people realize how easy it is to be a right wing grifter because you just have to repeat what they push out 24-7 and then if your attractive, Fox will give you a platform. This is similar to Candace Owen’s who filed a lawsuit against her school for racism that she now says doesn’t exist.
Please don't procreate.
Watch her Jordan Peterson interview where she states she was in Mongolia in below -40C temperatures wearing no coat with a baby. Jordan Peterson from northern Alberta actually familiar with this level of horror reacts accordingly and you see her reaction and realization of what she actually stated. She is filling a needed void for westerners who desire self assertions of living a good life and she’s doing a good job. Exaggerations of horrors do come from something based in reality
@dutchy6853 yes. Absolutely. Totally. I agree. But…
Are pyramid dwelling philosopher king controllers feeding us grifters or are we manifesting them.
I dunno. There's no possible way I can personally confirm her validity. It's just unfortunate that I've been so convinced of ppl's plights only to find out they were emotionally manipulating their audience through deception to make themselves unique and different... I really hope that's not the case here, truly. You'd think she's credible bc she's been on every podcast known to higher conversation. I think she's from the DPRK, I think her story has remained largely consistent but I'm not scrutinizing it either... It would just be a disappointment but I'm not blindly believing anyone.. So far this video lacks substantial supporting evidence and her detractors pick at the same parts of her story.. maybe they're just propagandist props for the north Koreans or CHINESE.
@@helenhoward5346 uhh parallax is Malaysian.
I caught that too! Peterson even asked “and the baby made it in minus 40 degrees??!” full of lies.
JP is a piece of sh!t. I don't like woke politics but I'll enjoy everytime the "wokes" massacre his good name
Edit- i also don't sympathize with this north Korean liar. I sympathize with those north Koreans who suffer in silence, there was one video (I'll be back with the name) a north Korean man told the American reporter "he feels like the US wants every North Korean dead" and he also doesn't like the regime. It's those people who feel like no one is a friend
I always knew there was something weird about her stories! My parents were refugees of the Pol Pot regime, so you can imagine the horror…people lining up to one by one to get shot to form a pile in a mass grave, babies battered into a tree , etc etc. A personal one was my grandma hiding gold in her body cavities so the family could leverage a bribe if they ran into trouble while escaping the country. My family made me go back when I was old enough so I didn’t forget. These kinds of human atrocities aren’t shocking to me anymore and I have so much respect for innocent victims of war. But Yeonmi’s stories, it was always like she would drop shocking details of the story ON PURPOSE just to see a look of sympathy and horror on her interviewers faces and would get progressively horrifying with every interview. It looks so different from the way I’ve seen survivors of trauma recount their stories. Something tells me she was more privileged than other NK and her story too tall for it to be 100% real. Right wing gave her the attention and sympathy she wanted, and they get to to use her like a strawman to say “The western world has no right to fight for anything when people are being as sold as prostitutes and starving like dogs across the world” And what sick person would criticize a brave young woman for escaping a dictator? They’re all psychopathic crooks. She sucks
Or maybe NK is just such a hellish dtstopia you cant wrap your head around how it can actually be this way irl.... Nk IS Shocking! Lest it be a lesson how society can change on a dime if the population doesnt do enought to counter it.
Myself and my father were part of wars to fight for such things as you mentioned in far off countries. Lots of money spent lots of people dead...nothing has changed.
@@zacharydunlap9340 War makes me feel sick. They still keep a tower of skulls in Cambodia as part of a museum. When I was there, I was walking and I got a human tooth wedged in the cracks of the bottom of my boot. I saw several landmine victims hobbling in the streets. You can still feel the impact of it. Im really sorry for you and your pops too. I can only imagine what it was like to actually be there
@@heli9677 Tank you for sharing. I am really surprised they keep that tower up, but maybe it's a good thing to remind us of how much people suffered under that regime. I do believe some wars are worth fighting.
Also it's very good to hear that your parents escaped and were able to give their children a better life. That is amazing.
This reminds me of that Chinese "spy" a couple of years ago that defected to Australia from Hong Kong. He named someone in Taiwan as his handler. Anyway, turned out he was just fleeing debt in China, and was eventually deported by Australia. Video: "Chinese ‘spy’ who claimed he infiltrated Hong Kong and Taiwan faces deportation from Australia"
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Yeonmi park should stop delving into issues she doesn't understand. She's trying hard to appeal to the American right and this reveals her ingenuity. Saying people goulded her for calling police during a robbery assault by blacks in Chicago is very suspect.
Lol and you don't think that would really happen? You're so stuck in your own bubble that you don't think people who hate white people and anyone who isn't black would get pissed off at someone for calling the police
And her saying they wouldn't charge the woman who robbed her when in reality the woman got 2 years in jail.
The funny part is she claims the person didn't face any charges but the lady who did is serving 2 years in jail for it
She makes it harder for real defectors
I knew I didnt like this lady.
I actually met Yeonmi Park back in 2015 and thought she was a sweet genuine person but now I’m simply sickened at how she turned out
What’s worse is that, she doesn’t care
What's going on? What is she doing I wasn't following what's going on
@@dhinakarroy4907 she saleout
@@sitlyfeniase3742 She's a sale-out to the very own people she's sought to free from a "tyrannical regime". While she continues to make Anti-Korean propaganda, she also reaps its rewards at the expense of her own people's image.
she used to be a great human rights activist but now… not at all. she needs to properly understand america’s history of being built on racism and stop comparing it to NK
I'm going to provide a very different perspective. I had a traumatic childhood. I avoid talking about my childhood partly because its so difficult to recall certain parts, and the chronology is so off. I am fully aware that it's bizarre that I can recall the colour of a coat I wore when I was 3, but cannot be sure whether my mother left when I was 3 or when I was 8. I fill in the gaps with stories other relatives told me, and other memories which hint at the truth. I bet Yeonmi's memory is all jumbled up like this because she was going through extreme trauma and stress as a child, and the language barrier cannot be helpful either.
Thank you for your perspective on this. Most of us don't have serious trauma that makes our memory jumbled up so we don't understand what it is like.
Thank you for saying this. I myself don't have any harsh childhood trauma, and my memory is still all jumbled up. I certainly don't remember the age I had my first surgery for my childhood accident. I don't remember how old I was when horrible events happened in my family (one in childhood and one in early adulthood). And I'm still in my mid 20's
I agree, trauma does a lot to the mind
How do you know she has trauma? and what trauma?
I tend to agree based on my own childhood trauma, the average person has no idea a what can happen to the brain. A child’s brain is even more vulnerable to distorted memories including false memories caused by trauma. I’m in my mid 50’s and still struggle with some PTSD triggers.
She always has this new information to speak about. It’s weird.
She said that she still has contacts in North Korea many times
I thought her channel was really interesting I used to watch it a lot. Then she started comparing social justice warriors to Kim jong-un and was immediately like oh she's a grifter. Edit : yes she is in fact being paid by a conservative think tank
The difference between Kim Jong-Un and SJWs is that one is a dictator who will kill everyone who doesnt agree with him, and the other is an extremist group who WOULD kill everyone who doesnt agree with them, IF they had the power. :P
But ofc, not all SJWs are on the extreme side, I guess there would be a few good apples inside the crate.
@@tunasingot6475 that's just really silly man
@@Will-xf3qe It's silly yeah. But its true tho. I AM exaggerating on the SJWs there, but cmon. People in NK dont have a choice but to chastise free thought, cos if they go against the regime, they'll end up being punished. But college kids in the USA do this kind of behavior voluntarily. I have no issues with a person's right to pronouns. The problem arises when misgendering someone can land you in jail. Is that not extreme? Or what about professors convincing students that they NEED a communist or socialist revolution? Coming from a region very close to Burma, I can tell you it doesnt work. We have the same problem here, certain professors convincing students of keeping the Nagalim freedom movement alive. But how can we support the same FREEDOM fighters who extort our businesses and classify us according to stronger and weaker tribes? And these are Socialists.
It';s like going back to the medieval serf system.
Also I simply dont understand how these college kids in the USA can assume a person like Park, who comes from NK to be accepting of such complicated and fluid 1st-world ideas about gender and social norms. Rather than be inclusive with those who dont understand, the left would rather chastise them. So no, if people claim Park to be a villain, they should at least acknowledge the villainous qualities in the radical left group as well.
I'm not classifying you in the SJW Branch as I don't know what your beliefs are. neither am I trying to pick a fight with you. Im just trying to genuinely understand why someone would hate on her of all people, especially when there are larger, more harmful things to criticize. For example, everyone hates on her for inconsistencies but are totally unaware of the fact that Hollywood wanted to make a fake movie on her portraying China as the good guys who helped her escaped, when in reality it was Christian missionaries who helped her escape.
And besides, with the recent selfish stunt Biden pulled with the gas pipeline, a stunt that hinders the economic well-being of my own country, and others like mine, HOW is it that no one is criticizing Biden, yet has the time to criticize a NK survivor, honest or not.
@@tunasingot6475i would argue with you but you made like 100 different points there. You've bought into hysterical right wing propaganda. I just think she's obviously being paid by some right wing think tank or conservative billionaires to say that liberals are worse than Kim jong un. Now let me go look into it and see if I can confirm that
@@tunasingot6475 huh how strange who would have guessed. Yeonmi Park is backed by the American Libertarian non-profit organization, Atlas Foundation. The atlas foundation is a network of conservative think tanks founded by Antony fisher who was also a founder of the Fraser institute and many other conservative/libertarian think tanks world wide. What are the odds. Look I just don't even believe she genuinely holds these opinions about social justice, and even if she does she's being paid to say these things.
No one is above being exposed. Especially if they are making money off their audience. I'm glad you called her out. You literally can not just blanketly believe everyone and every story. Everyone has the ability to lie, and their "truth" should be tested for validity.
What was there to "expose"?
@@donkeyparadise9276 They're just mad she's exposing modern liberals for the fucking fascist weirdos they really are lol
@@donkeyparadise9276 Exaggerating her experiences and using a very sad situation to her own profit. I only got know about her a week back when I was superficially reading about N.K’s history and stuff, and she has been on my UA-cam feed everafter. At first I really liked her because I found her quite attractive to look at, and she had a very charismatic personality. But shorts after shorts, as I saw more of her I realized she seemed to be too extravagant and prepared in her answers on podcasts and interviews. For example, once she was asked “which is the most dangerous body part in NK” to which she almost immediately replied in very well-strung together sentences which basically implied the tongue. That answer seemed too perfect and poetic to come up with on the spot. She also jokes about Kim Jong Un being her type on another show, while it was funny, I’d expect her to be the last one to crack jokes on him. If she is that terrified of that place, she definitely wouldn’t even dare to make humour of the monster who is the cause of all of her and her family’s misery. There are more such instances. I’ve barely watched a couple of shorts and went from adoring her to realizing she is just exploiting her audience.
@@arishemthejudge6780wow. Imagine being this delusional
@@arishemthejudge6780 i am very concerned about her because a lot of people connect this to trauma and as someone who has at least some experience with this parts of what you described can very well be explained through traumatic sheltering. Everyone is different but girls with high intellect that have had instances of heavy sexual abuse during childhood (for example) behave in ways similar to this IN MY EXPERIENCE and ONLY SOMETIMES.
This is only anecdotal but memory loss, memory rearangement, a bipolar world view and an aggressiv sense of humor for topics close to whatever these people have been through is not unheard of.
I honestly am torn because i am very critical of stories that benefit anyone when they are believed. But i also feel like there is enough truth to her story that i want to believe the rest because i would rather find myself deceived than to condemn someone who has gone through hell.
Language barrier shouldn't be underestimated as well.
She was called out for saying she had to pass 4 mountains to cross the border.
There were no mountains between her house and the border. She apologized basically immediately and said that you can see the "large hills" through google earth and that she didn't know the difference between a mountain and a hill at the point of her statement.
Things like these are so common that we should take them at face value.
Yea. At first she was like "i grew up in a rich family so i didnt see too much of the worst horrors" then like 6 months later she was like "kids were dead in the street". Decided shes completely unreliable after that. Thought i was the only one who noticed. Great job!
"No freedom to criticize North Korean Government"
Also Yeonmi: "iF yOu DOn't lIkE AMeRiCa THen mOVe To NOrTh kOReA"
She has a point that you guys don't get. I'm eastern European and my family lived under communism.
When i see western people complain about pronouns and stupid shit, I always tell them to live in a country with real difficulties and they will stop complaining about crap and reinventing the wheel.
That's her point but expressed poorly.
@@RoxyCherryRozy No, it seems your take is much more reasonable. Her claiming the US is on the verge of becoming North Korea is just nonsensical.
@@RoxyCherryRozy
"When i see western people complain about pronouns and stupid shit, I always tell them to live in a country with real difficulties and they will stop complaining about crap and reinventing the wheel."
Do you tell this to people who have pronouns or people who complain about pronouns?
@@KSmithwick1989 I agree this is a reach but coming from a country with real struggles about stuff Americans take for granted NOW. Modern Americans don’t have to face the taliban to get an education or escape a country to be free. The issues they do have however sound like they’re just bored.
@@mergenocide it’s obviously directed at the ones complaining. “Boo hoo you got misgendered? Well I was kidnapped and held at gunpoint for something I didn’t even do.” See how insanely different each problem weighs? Yet they’re both described as problems which is why everyone thinks the west should not complain about their minuscule problems
I used to follow her on here and her other social media. She truly was someone to admire, but I did notice she began to change and appeared more and more on right wing programming. That’s when i knew her downfall would begin.
You think she speaks more to the right wing but she came from a left communist hell whole. She literally cannot comprehend how we have all these freedoms and plentiful food but would like to trade that for what she knew?! You consider it right wing programming. Unfortunately she’s speaking her truth and you no longer respect it bc she the left reminds her of NK. She makes great points how people like yourself comment how terrible America is but you have zero idea what terrible really is. All your terrible is 1st world bs when her terrible is being able to eat or her family getting taking away for saying something the regime doesn’t like. Both the far left and the far right will bring down our country if we aren’t careful.
Legit once I watched her on Fox News complaining about CRT and compared it to North Korean campus, it's a wrap for me.
@@Garbeaux. Thinking NK is a left wing communist country is the most certified Western moment ever. Stochastic terrorism damage control at its finest.
@@aobasuzukaze1032 what is CRT? I am sorry i need to know
I just asking do you think the opposite happen, have you ever thought the left wings media shadow ban her, like she out right saying communism is bad, you ain’t see it on cnn until recently when they release the tank man video the massacre in tiamen square in China. Think both sides, be a smart middle man. I do not support left or right. She is ex North Korean not American citizen, do you ever think she might face racism in your country ? Just for saying she used to be there?
Ok, I know it's unrelated, but the love song by these two North Korean artists made me cry. Eastern cultures all have this phenomenal, one-of-a-kind way of expressing love and feelings to one another. Trully something broke down along her way... she might've good intentions at 1st, but what I see here seems far off that...
Good intentions? Maybe at some points in her life. She just craves white validation and acceptance. Sells out her own country and peoples to make money off the huge appetite there is for Americans to feel better and superior to others
@@dunzhen There's no such thing as "white validation". If one is a scammer, one is simply a scammer. Why putting racial tones into this?
@@KingaKucyk because it's an inseparable aspect of these self loathing sellouts, almost always. If you know you know
@@dunzhen not really
You are right about that. English music or western music in general doesn't feel as intense when talking about love as eastern does. Perhaps, it's the long history. I swear if you listen to Indian love songs even if you don't know the language, they feel almost spiritual.
I was once one of her Patreon members. Then the things she said, her backpedaling about woke university, the stupid comparisons between the US and North Korea, the blatant avoidance of other cases of human rights abuses, the figures she chose to associate with, made me gradually turn away from her content. I'm glad I did that, since some people seem unable to do it, as seen by the few remaining defenders of Kanye.
She's not even really North Korean, she was born and raised in America. Total alt-right grifter.
" her backpedaling about woke university"
Can you expand on this?
@@KtranphotoSorry, non-native English speaker here, I meant "pedaling" not "backpedaling" which is exactly the opposite lol. I meant her constant mention of that supposed issue.
I use to watch her vidoes from time to time but when she criticized Megan Markle struggle and minimized it and compared Meghan’s experience to NK citizens as if any is ok. She doesn’t have to believe Meghan but to minimize people experience is contradictory to her life experiences
I went to a woke University and studied Sociology where I was taught the same things she says she was taught. That part is true, especially in the social sciences.
I remember she once told that being strarved is worse that 'her' being raped but then again in most of her earlier stories she specifically mentioned that her mother saved her from being raped by 'putting herself in her place' wow she really loves her mother
The mother told the guys to use her instead of her daugther she never said it was better her mother was raped what r u even saying???
Tell me:
If you had the Option you or your child who would you choose?
@@4crystical129what I'm telling is that yeonmi park lied about her being raped, her mother took the "fall" for her and in the video for sympathy she lied and said she was the one who got *****
@@4crystical129 he isn’t saying that yeonmi was happy her mother got graped instead of her. He is saying that in one story its her who gets graped, and in another it wasn’t her but her mother.
@@tailedbeast7829imo I think it's true that her mother got **** but yeonmi never did she actually mentioned that in many of her videos but sometimes when going through emotional topics like starvation she says that she got ***** for sympathy
@@4crystical129zero reading comprehension 😂
Important to mention that Yeonmi (like most N Korea defectors) is financed by right wing think tanks that are directly aligned if not outright owned by the US and South Korean governments (look up the ATLAS Network) and their stories are used to justify certain actions these governments take against the North (US sanctions, S Korea's National Security Act). Their stories have to be highly exaggerated and unrealistic because actually believable stories like "I was homeless" or "living conditions were bad" don't cause outrage and in most cases could also be said for the western countries. Obviously that's not to say North Korea is the ideal society or anything, but it's naive to assume their isn't a financial, and most importantly political incentive behind these defectors and their stories, regardless if they are true or not.
Also these N. Korean defectors being mostly young good looking women is not a coincidence.
@June Bug shes being sponsored by the us and sk governments to push the western narrative that nk is so horrible compared to the us so americans can continue to support us sanctions and military occupation in korea to this day
@@kingdedede333 yea they're just propaganda tools for the US and south Korea same with Cuba
Well ofc everyone has financial incentive. Even the president is not free from criticism is he? What with all the ruckus Biden created with the Pipeline? Making it disastrous for people out here in the East while her personally profits off of people's misery? ooooh. Russia gas pipeline bad, Chinese spy balloon bad. I mean, are you even listening to your argument?
If you need to right wing to say a man is a man and a woman is a woman, then America has become a circus.
I read her book in 2016 when it came out, and obviously it had a huge impact on my understanding of North Korea. It's unfortunate that she lies so often, as I'm sure there is some truth to her stories.
"One half- truth doesnt qunech 100 lies"
Look let me be honest here she is a north korean defector that is true, but I don't think she defected in the name of safety though, rather I think she did it find a better luxurious lifestyle she gets now unlike her brothers and sisters in the north that would rather live in the lower middle class which she hated but I don't believe her story has any to do with kim jong un or his father, rather how she made more money when she left the country.
@@tyecollaborator5017 Makes sense. Apart from reading her book, I didn't really watch any of her interviews so I didn't know there were holes in her narrative.
@@tyecollaborator5017 she was low class and had no idea what luxury was. I've read this comment from her detractors many times to discredit her. You can tell most were NK based due to grammar and similar wording. Her father's death clearly impacted her and she faced hardship over the years - why not get paid for her story and knowledge?
@@aspookyspookynightI’ve read somewhere else that she was actually upper class. It’s old but I clearly remember this info, weird, I’m gonna look into that. And yeah, she probably went through many difficult things but it doesn’t justify her lying over and over. We can’t even pin point what true anymore.
One thing she didn’t expect was there’s enough people outside of North Korea that have common sense. If you go on record over and over, you gotta keep your record straight. It’s one thing to elaborate further on her testimony, it’s another when that elaboration contradicts other things said previously… that’s when elaboration turns into fabrication. I don’t deny her experiencing a harsh life, but I also can compartmentalize my empathy and claim that she’s grifting off her story. In the end she’s discredited herself. In the end, this hurts the North Korean people further bc it makes people become skeptical of other North Koreans truthful testimonies. Never underestimate politicians and political organizations to exploit people like Yeonmi. She was preyed upon by right wing propagandists at a very young age. She had a resentment towards leftists that she met while in university because her peers who happened to be the left listened to her speak and read her book and noticed the inconsistencies and addressed them to her face. From that point she started to turn on “leftists” because their exposing of her fabrication was going to ruin her chance to grift… she also knows which political side foams at the mouth for war with China and North Korea. So she went the path of least resistance. Yeonmi is now a propagandist bought and paid for to rally and manufacture pro war consent for North Korea and China.
Thanks for calling her out. Her stories are unreal, basically impossible to be truthful. I was a follower until about 3 years ago, when I saw how she makes money of it. I think she sees her self as a celebrity, more than a human right activist.
Havent finished the video but I will say, All the DPRK defectors are in one way or another forced into becoming "right-wing" grifters unfortunately, which is no fault of their own to some degree. North Koreans are heavily prejudiced against in South Korean Society. This prejudice can be in the form of housing or job discrimination etc. Thus in order to maintain a living a lot of these DPRK defectors go on these media tours that pay them exorbitant amounts of money to do what is essentially propaganda for SK & the US. This is not to say that any of their claims about the DPRK are false but they are heavily exaggerated to the point that now its actually increasingly hard for scholars and journalists to determine what is factual and what is hyperbole.
Exactly
As not being a Korean, or American, or Chinese, this whole idea of right-wing-left-wing is quite amusing....
In a way, North Korean society is dominated by China and South Korean society is essestially controlled by americans...
So, both nations are being used to fight a proxy war with one another, for the interest of their respective masters.
^^^
nah, it's not just "exaggerated" it's flat out lies for western money!
The truth about the defectors is a crazy rabbit hole that connects to many cults and alt right movements
A lot of defectors where actually kidnapped by cult leaders and forced to say stories where they are payed by right wingers it's crazy
For someone who was upset about censorship in NK and lack of freedom of expression, she seems to have a problem with anything slightly left-wing being expressed. If she were really for free speech, she wouldn't complain about left-wing people having opinions.
Also, no body has a monopoly on grief. Therefore we all have a right to complain.
@Zorluxism exactly. The idea that you can't criticize how things are run in your country is exactly what led to NK existing in the first place.
@@ms_cartographer I know right. By her logic we should allow people to support north Korean regime because silencing them is just like NK.
@@Remake5182 well all those who support North korean regime in usa or western countries should try to live for 6 month in North Korea like average North korean citizens. And see it by themselves.
Gas station topic: noticed she was saying the attendants are earning 250 yuan.... Thought NK is using won???? Very sus....
Finally a video exposing her bs
43:53 this part was simply beautiful. The best possible response to the "North Koreans don't have a word for love other than love for the dear leader" bullshit.
Is that North Korean song?
i mean, do you know it?
@@killi1674 i thing that what he/she meant is, that it doesn't make sense not to have the word "love", but still have the word "love" at the same time for the leader
@@adelalovesmadara4062yeah. There’s tons of North Korean songs, movies and books with the word "love" or who are entirely dedicated to a love story.
North Korea may be a dictatorship but North Koreans are still humans. Everyone likes to sing,see or write something about love.
I mean she's not wrong. In North Korea, the citizen is merely a prop for the state. Songs, art, poetry, and everything else are all about the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, Dear Kim Jong Il, etc.
She seems to have learned exactly what to say in order to get maximum attention from westerners.
i discovered her in 2020 and eventually stopped watching her videos after a few months as something felt off
Yes me too,I found it to be recycled boring drivel ,and her puffy face put me off ,after seeing what she really looked like
I saw her on Joe Rogan clip and idk felt weird about it. And it didn't help their were refering to her as "heavies" and it just felt gross.
As soon as she started the “woke” talk which she definitely doesn’t know the meaning of, along with most right wingers, I knew she was grifting.
I think, she is just groomed by a known conservative organization in America
Same. Though in her defence I’m an old leftie and often find myself rolling my eyes at the more egregious and silly elements of ‘woke’, but I just keep my mouth shut because there’s nowhere to go other than the alt right. I can see how a person from a totally different culture would have this experience and not know how to navigate it, or now when to keep your mouth shut and pick your poison etc
Woke = Bullshit
Her political preferences make her grifter as a default? Interesting.
@@SigynRegn Using a word she doesn’t understand to win political points make her a grifter Mr High IQ.
ok, but putting aside profit, her views now are pretty reasonable for someone with her past.
1) it’s just… ingrained. homophobia, transphobia, etc
2) because she has that experience of north korea, in comparison, the united states are the best country and liberal problems like minority oppression aren’t significant. it’s kinda like when parents say “my parents did this, this and this to me, so you should be grateful i only do that”. we all judge the world based on our experience
I used to watch Yeonmi regularly about two years ago and I liked her, but I started to distance myself from her content for no apparent reason. Maybe subconsciously I noticed the clickbait or the sensationalism, I don't know, but I never suspected in a million years that she could be lying or at the very least exaggerating. Even though I don't agree with everything you said, you make several great points and I thank you for making this video. I especially loved your final thoughts, as I believe interventionism is more often than not very harmful for the little guy and there's always an agenda.
I too watched some stuff of her and I could feel the exaggeration and sensationalism, but tbh I believed it. Now, I guess I will try to be more skeptical
vigilance against communism.
@@cortexauth4094 same here :/
Same. The exact moment I realised she was lying was when she posted a video saying that her sources had told her people in NKPR were beginning to rebel and there were uprisings happening across the country. I looked at a bunch of different news sources, but there was absolutely no indication of large scale riots.
No wonder so many of you get scammed by Nigerian prince and indians, bye bye hahahaha
She seems way to happy talking about her past struggles. When soldiers come back from war they hardly want to talk about it afterwards. When ever she mentions a horrible thing happening in North Korea her smile grows like a jack-o-lantern. If what she says is true she’s a Psychopath/Sociopath at best.
It's different
There are different reactions to trauma, there is no right way to react
Like the person above me said, there is no right way to react to trauma. Have the decency to at least read her story and see the hell she went through emotionally and physically to get where she is today
people handle traumas differently
@@mirahogwards_art Sure, but lies exist. Starving people can't push trains.
if Yeonmi Park is a North Korean double agent she's actually a lot more easier to understand tbh
Love is a universal feeling that can't be taught. I watched many of her youtube videos, but I got a really bad feeling about her when she claimed they didn't know what "love" is.
also, you showed a clip of her saying the beautiful women at gas stations get paid $250 a month, but in another video she says that doctors are poor too and make $1 a day. Wow all the lies. Unbelievable.
I remember her saying that there is no word for "love"???????????
Yes in north Korea they had no word to express love, other than for love towards the supreme leader by her a testimony.
That's how supressed their society is by the regime there.
@@arlenerivera5570 I guess you could go to North Korea and work at a gas station, colonizer.
@@arlenerivera5570 Romantic love is in some sense a modern Western concept. You're imposing your ideas and concepts on other cultures and behaving like a colonizer. Can you prove that everyone feels love the same way that you do? Go home you imperialist.
Yeonmi Park, a professional victim. Sure she is a defector, but damn did she capitalize on it, capitalized on the pity of others through lies and deception.
My gut and conscience doesn't lie. I knew something was off with her even during her interview with Jordan Peterson. Loved this commentary! It's time to expose her lies. 🤥
Feeling are not a reliable path to truth
And what does this prove?
Same, that interview as well.
@@darrelljohnston562 they can be.
Whats wrong with having an interview with jordan peterson? The man likes basing his words on facts and researches, not feeling.
I’m glad yt recommended this to me! I remember a year or two ago i came across Yeonmi and her story and I was intrigued. I began to read up on her but I soon saw that there were was many conflicting statements and that her stories just didn’t add up. Like I’m pretty sure u would remember how and whom u escaped north Korea with. Also the fact that she was on a reality tv type show in South Korea along with all these stories makes me think that she is just all about the coin.
Libtards are only saying this because she seems to lean right with her political views. If she was talking about how great communism is and how great radical left-wing censorship is y'all would be kissing her feet. She wants to stop America from becoming like North Korea.
U do have to make money at some point
To be fair she might be "misremembering" to protect the identities of others.
@@almalone3282 or idk maybe it could be different stories all together
You’re pretty sure about another person situation that you were never involved in? Lmao I bet you don’t even own a passport
I got really into her story and I was consuming a lot of her content weekly. The more of her I watched the more I started to dislike her but I didn’t want to discredit her because I knew where she came from.
Same here
Yes this is so true
Sameeee I just saw this post on twitter about her that made me rethink my blind loyalty to her
Same here i question her story a bit off. Like people pushing train
Same. Then I saw her old face and I knew.....
It baffles me at how Ulrich Larsen for performing very dangerous work as an undercover double agent doesn't get nearly the amount of credit he deserves while Yeon-Mi holds the spotlight.
I do believe yenomi's story by large. But what baffles me is how she didn't have proper education in n. Korea and was mostly wrong concepts. (like the 2+2 problem), but yet when she managed to go to s. Korea she studied in less than 3 years and yet passed with flying colors. As we all know south Korea has a very tough education system and is very difficult to get into universities. How did she manage to do that despite going through a psychologically altering ptsd depression filled life. And I'm sure she must have so many other medical problems due to an unbalanced diet and over all poor health. Because if she could do that then she must have a very high IQ and high retention problem or maybe a very good picture memory?
thats what I was thinking too. Like someone who has to relearn everything and got a GED in a year from basically a background of 0 education. like I kinda assumed she has the smarts or even one or close to those photographic memories we rarely hear about. not to mention her learning english. she had to learn so much in such a short period of time.. i feel like she relived everything she experienced and it wont go away. she even says she wakes up to nightmares from nk.. she for sure did not forget her traumas
@@docchi500 Exactly. This seems a it of a stretch
Oh yeah 1+1 = 2 is white man propaganda 😂
@@zo5679 haha yea exactly.
@@ma-cr2to what do you mean
i used to watch her youtube videos, but i find it ridiculous that she has so much updated "secret information" about NK
Exaaactly 🙄 She's always wearing designer clothing, and living in a high rise apartment, etc. Who is paying for all of that? Her book money would have ran out years ago. She's already told every story she can by now... so she'd have to come up w/new ones, in order to keep the finances coming in.
I've noticed that all she does these days is push the benefits of Capitalism on people. Clinging to anyone who will give her a platform, which usually ends up being right wing fascists in the media. It's obvious she's being paid to do all of this, and that they are keeping her living comfortably.
Afterall, ya can't shill for Capitalism if you're seen living like MOST poor, or Working Class Americans, right??
I have no doubt she suffers from memory loss due to PTSD and severely traumatizing past so I can sympathize with details of some of her stories change. However, I always found it weird how strongly she feels toward gender fluid people and her extreme stances of "sjw's". I feel like for someone who's been through the most intense political abuse can empathize with people but she seems to dismiss or diminish struggles of people in developed countries. Struggles of NK people and ppl in USA are entirely different but they're struggles regardless so I'm confused by her lack of understanding of different struggles.
Omg this comment spoke my mind. I loved her book and was shocked to find that her UA-cam personality is not at all what I’d hoped for.
They ain't struggling in America the stuff we're dealing with are first world problems were people who are spoiled argue about whos the most oppressed 🙄
You realize how futile and stupid this concept of gender fluidity must be to her…manys other countries feel the same way and i dont blame them if you spend all your life in famines wars and abuse so give ger a damn break.
@@aurerixa6379 you read my mind.
@@josephinepoutine5327 literally. I don't think most Americans realize that other countries are actually not interested in these gender wars. If these trans frog/frogself paints/paint went to Africa or somewhere in the middle east they'd be surprised that's people there won't mess with them. take down they're blm flag off their bio. 😂😂 Some people worry about actual problems other than which pronouns are the best and if gender is a social construct.
I have beeeeeennn saaayyyiinngg this for years! I just mentioned it again yesterday to my husband that in the beginning it was a really devastating experience but it became quite obvious she started profiting from it, from her story. Places she got invited to and people meeting her from the elites, it started to become fishy.
This video was bs speculative not picking. And for what?
@@donkeyparadise9276 what's your point?
@@donkeyparadise9276 How is it speculation, when it's using her own books and interviews. There definitely inconsistencies within her own claims.
I used to watch a lot of her videos in the past but... slowly started to question everything. Ive noticed some of her details are changing from an old interview to another and I put it off to "Probably hard to remember those traumatic days, I'll give it a pass" but, as soon as I start to notice her clickbait thumbnails and titles I... I just stopped and immediately knew something was wrong. Thanks for the great documentary
Yes exactly,I smelt a rat
This has me shaking my head.
I read her book, several years ago, and have watched some of her videos. I'm surprised I missed the obvious right in front of my face. When you lay it out, it makes so much sense. Thank you.
Whether it's trauma, intentionally lying to profit from her clickbait-y videos and stories...or some of both, it's incredibly sad that she's been sucked into a life of lying and exaggerating her story, and that of others in North Korea. I wish integrity was valued, but I guess in a world where you're raised lying just to survive, maybe it's all some of them know, and they don't try to learn and live another way.
i'm shocked and saddened by this.
True but all i feel is empathy for her regardless knowing these different version stories are coming frm some truth and that’s still terrifying. eating insects getting parents sent to prison and then everything that happened after.
Propagandists what you to believe that one exaggeration (if there are exaggerations) discredits the whole story. It does not. WAY too many similar stories exist, not just of those fleeing NK, but of those fleeing professed 'Communist' societies, that in reality, are nothing less that classic fascist regimes. Are you REALLY surprised people wish to flee from fascism?
It's good to see intelligent people who can recognize her lies.
you must be pretty stupid to even believe her lies from the beginning
Perhaps the NK defectors got a glimpse on how to win capitalism and got ahead of themselves
Wow that love song was beautiful, when I heard her say there’s no word for love in NK it didn’t sound right.
Cosmetic work is expensive and grifting pays!
As always, fantastic video with such thorough research and a little bit of attitude that has the Parallax signature charm. Proud of you, and the support you are getting is well deserved.
I can't wait for your future projects😄
She says the beautiful gas station women stand guarded there to attract a rich man, but she also stated in other videos that nobody can marry upward in their class system. She said if a higher class person marries a lower class person, the higher class person must become part of that lower class they married into. So if there is no upward mobility through marriage then why would pretty lower class women be trying to marry rich men? Makes zero sense.
She was probably a higher class woman, so that’s why it doesn’t make sense. Those ladies probably become mistresses. She herself would become the social class of who she married.
Just the other day an interview with her came on YT and I lightly listened, after hearing her story once. She went on talking about a “boyfriend” and father being in a camp and dying. Only to then change it a good while in the same interview stating she “could never have a boyfriend…didn’t even know what that would have looked like…” then deny that her father ever went into the life camp and instead said he only went to another type of camp that allowed him to get out in a few years and had cancer. Now I’m very intrigued by all of these changes. I did find it strange that there was such an ease at talking about all of this. That could be cultural or just a way of coping, but with as many speaking engagements she’s done, I’ve seen interviews have full breakdowns where she just seems a little too tame, I guess. I don’t know what to believe on this. This is wild
Noticed that aswell, the details about her father keep changing.. she said he died in the camp, but released because he was sick, she also said he was home waiting for her and her mother when they decided to escape, some interviews she said they were reunited in china then her father died months later but then also said he died in a forest crossing Mongolia... I also don't know what to believe, I'll just conclude that her traumatic experience caused her to alter details but still due to her trauma which is undoubtful i would say
I noticed this too. From several podcasts, she mentioned he was already in prison when she was still in NK, but then another one she said he was in prison after she was in china (key point: when she was hospitalised, both parents took her there). It just kept changing
@@yenaminx5326 I heard that she was more privileged compared to other North Koreans
What’s the interview title so I can watch it myself?
The thing about a boyfriend in NK is odd because that would mean that her neighbours weren't lying in that documentary North Korea did interviewing several people who knew her family a small detail but strange. They made the first one but it lacked in real substantial points but the second one was quite damming on her family
I think she milks north korea for her only content; which is becoming misleading
why are people still downplaying or outright denying what you’re saying in this comment section, I feel like a large majority would rather live in ignorance and become blind believers
Because I feel like plenty of people had this misguided notion that if you're criticizing North Korean defectors for their inconsistencies and harmful behavior, then you're automatically pro-North Korea. There's not really much you can do with people like that, I'm afraid - no matter how elaborate and thorough you explain this issue.
@@ParallaxMY So true. I was great supporter of her but I became uncomfortable of something I can't tell you.
@@ParallaxMY The best slippery slope yet is when some people here just outright calling you CCCP, North Korea and Russia sympathizer at the same time.
@@9fmradisapratama nothing wrong with sympathizing with the DPRK, after all the harm the west has done to their country.
@@me9039 🤡🤡🤡
This is perhaps the most well thought out piece I’ve ever seen. Instant subscribe. This isn’t a video essay, it’s literally journalism.
is video essay a lesser form of journalism?
The only thing that you hate is that her talking about your country opress other people.
@@maradondeamdp7924 you must admit that she made alot of shit up , in recent interview she said that they teach 1+1=1 in school because their leader told them ??? How bullshit is that, how can a country exist without math ?.
@@PicesQ idk man if she mean that and it's true bruuh how on earth NK manage to build an ICBM.
@@zo5679 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. NK is a horrible place for sure, and some of what she said may be true, but recently, all she said was an obvious lie that has made NK people look like cavemen..
She's a really bad actress ,nevertheless give this woman an oscar, always on full make up asking sympathies points
I have no doubt she faced a lot of horrors in NK. What I take issue with is the fact that she uses her experiences to minimise other inequalities (be it racial inequality, LGBTQ+ inequality).
She didn't experience many horrors, she was part of an elite family. She experienced the life of a normal citizen of North Korea for a very short amount of time, if at all.
Hah, you guys consider these relevant issues? Even religious problems here are small talk compared to the shitshow that is the economy
@@ddarkon1223 Do you believe there can be one big issue?💀
@@siohunndai I mean my pronouns are the least of my worries when compared to the fact that 1$ is like 100kL.L
I can barely afford shit and I'm super grateful and lucky I can spend my free time here on the Internet
@@ddarkon1223 And this is being brought up why? Talk about that in a conversation in which that's relevant.
Noo......I am so so so disappointed I supported her so much. This situation and video is incredibly underrated. Thank you so much for bringing awareness
Don't believe this Chinese bot either...take everything with a grain of salt
@@user-ow1qs7jo7f what-
@@pluvia5431 yea many of the people who accuse her of lying are Chinese...just check her comments on her channel. She was very young when she escaped maybe she forgot or lied but these people are trying to prove that north korea isn't as bad as they say and china isn't protecting the north korean regime.
@@PrettyBabyAngel i called him a Chinese bot meaning he's working for China. I don't care about his ethnic background
@@PrettyBabyAngel lol ok...the fact that you're defending him so bad is also quite suspicious.
I find this video to be disturbing, but quite credible. I have respected Yeonmi, but now realize I may have been gulled.
You were gulled. She’s not a good person at all.
We need more youtubers like you and coffeezilla.
Also, one of this girl's latest vids, she says kim jong shot someone 90 times lmao. probably with an LMG or something. I dont understand how dumb she thinks we are.
I think she can make whatever clickbait thumbnail she wants if the actual content is true. Or is her interpretation of footage. Even if the fotos in the thumbnail are exaggerated and not authentic, for me it doesn’t matter. I think it’s okay to draw attention to your video. But what I don’t tolerate are lies.
1:32:17 Excellent ending point. While you might have an (incredibly understandable) urge to try to help people in another country, you will ultimately encourage foreign intervention, which will most certainly be led by powers that have their own ulterior motives, leaving countries/regions worse off (look at the middle east). If you can't guarantee that won't happen, don't push it.
In a way, the sanctions _are a perfect example_ of this foreign intervention-- someone less informed may think "oh we must show it to Kim Jong Un! Impose those sanctions!" which is how it got any public support in the first place but as you can see, the listed items are so excessive that it's built to impose suffering on the people that live there. Most of the people who've advocated for sanctions out of their mouths have never been the ones to even determine that list.
No, I disagree with this. North Korea is not the same as Syria. It pretty much has the worst government of all time (in terms of how it treats it's own people). Pretty much any government would be better.
@bladimir 08 I never said that "Iraq is the worst", you're putting words into my mouth. Not all sceneraios in history are identical, you can easily make very strong arguments that the north korea government is the worst in the world.
Also it's very counter-productive to call people who disagree with you "worse than sheep" when you know absolutley nothing about them
I would love if you do a video on Matthew Tye (laowhy86) & Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA).
That would cause a Riot, their Minions would flood tye comment section
@anneboleyn7852 very horrible people and they supposedly friends one of them has a History of beating one Animals for fun , the other one wanted to defend a R*pist in court both spread Western Propaganda about China + SerpentZA had a Chinese wife and had separated from him once because he was just being too Sinophobic.
What do you have on them pray tell
I think the only justifiable criticism about them is they focus too much on the negative side of China.
In North Korea, if you oven the cold food, you can't of out hot eat the food 😔
Bare in mind Yeonmi did address those North Korean Propaganda videos speaking against her. Bare in mind that the North Korean government as you already probably know are very harsh and brutal they probably gave "her family" a script and threatened them with death if they objected to their demands.
Yeah I'm sure some Western youtuber is actually an agent of North Korea lmao
@@randomuser3481 LMFAO
@@randomuser3481 you’d be surprised. We have a whole faction of folks in Congress who speak for Putin. They even committed seditious acts.
@@fayethepa There is a vast difference between using a government official as an asset vs recruiting some random guy who makes youtube videos
@@randomuser3481 nk does have hackers so they are very much online too..
Her criticism against liberal politics just does not make sense. Conservative politics pretty much wants to imitate dictatorial states which she escaped from. Yet she supports conservative ideologies.
However, I dont feel its entirely her fault. She grew up in North Korea. They have no idea how the free world works. They can easily be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals and that is what happened to her.
Yeonmi's channel is off-the-charts clickbait. Her vids drag on, way longer than necessary, hence racking up more view-time and commercials. Also, she made several political comments in some of her vids which caused me to wonder if she's working with or paid/controlled by right-wingers or that perhaps the channel itself may be a psyop. After just a few videos, I quit watching her channel. Excellent work @Parallax. Like your style of documentary journalism. Subscribed!
her story is all over the place especially key components. did her father travel with her or did he stay back not to hold them back? when the father died was he cremated like she said? or was he carried by two men who were paid off to be buried atop the mountain. like cmon you dont know how your dad was buried? wouldnt that be a significant instance?
It's hard to remember lies, but it is easy to tell the truth.
Now this is a quote to kee in mind.
False, my memmories from Childhood & Tennager years are quite blurry to me, I find it rather difficult sometimes to retell a story from years ago, it takes a huge amount of effort to put it back together, like a vase broken into pieces.
@@dobrasilaomundo.8086 Your memories, vs shit you're fabricating, all are different and require different things to bring up. If you fabricate shit, that makes it tough, even if it's already tough as it is to piece things together.
@@stella-vu8vh trauma and ptsd fuvk ur brain up. Why do I assume she is lying instead of just recalling things incorrectly
This channel is incredibly underrated, stumbled upon it today and I'm in awe of the effort you put into these videos. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, will do!
@@ParallaxMY Why you wish to discredit the LEGION of those who flee fascism with the SAME STORY makes me think you're trying to convince yourself of the existence of a misnomer that in reality, doesn't exist. Far too many flee fascism and have come to the US for centuries, all for the same reason. There's a REASON these types of stories are legion, and the reverse are nothing less than anomalies when compared to the mean of the whole populations of people who leave their nations. Pure Empirical quantitative data are not subjective. They are real, factual, unopinionated data.
@@crforfreedom7407 he’s not discrediting nk defectors, did you even watch the video????
In a traditional sense she still thinks like she's still in North Korea, which is very conservative in a traditional sense. Which is sad that she is the face of the Anti-DPRK movement.
bruh i know you dont have bad intentions, but this video was made so naively
I read her book and it was very sad yet informative. However, when she expressed that people who have an opinion about America as "ungrateful" as well as other things, it made me lose respect for her. No country is perfect and yes, we have our privileges, but that doesn't mean there is no room for criticism.
but the people complaing vote there problems, why cry BLM and vote biden who did police protection?
She spoke out against black ppl protesting because her rac!st behind couldn't ppl behind her cause. Instead of addressing the whyte politicians and whyte ppl who have resources that she hangs around to do something, she decided to come at BLM when black ppl were trying to have a voice. She doesn't fight for human rights, she lies about her cause, and only wants attention on her ppl.
@@bre9328 BLm the 2 women who raked in millions after theyre protestors destroyed black owned businesses?
@@Helelsonofdawn No, BLM the ACTUAL ppl who protested for what the saying ACTUALLY means. I knew some lame would try to say BLM was TWO ppl, and try to say the scammers represent the saying and the ppl. What a lame
@@Helelsonofdawn It's not only with the Biden administration. There were criticisms about the country no matter who the commander in chief is. The fact of the matter is that we are all entitled to our opinions and it's ok to criticize something that the government is doing. She as well as others should not downplay individual experiences and claim it as "ungrateful".
Omgosh I'm so happy that I found a talented Malaysian youtuber. Someone who has a made a well thought out video and has actually spent the time & effort to do the research. So proud of you!
Omg this channel is a malaysian creator???? Subscribed! #sapotlokal
im even more proud to know that this creator is sabahan, sabah be my fav state of malaysia so big respect
Fuyoiii
malaysia is the hotspot of cancerous liberalism in south asia. Everytime I hear about a gender hustlers, vegan activists, wellness hippies, drug addicts, pro-criminals..etc.. it's always Malaysians. Singapore is so nearby but it's one of the best countries.
@@4cymusic785 well.. Malaysia is Malaysia and Singapore is Singapore. You wouldn't be comparing Mexico and the United States right?
Malaysia is a developing country, so of course it has its ups and downs, there are stupid leaders but also some great ones. Talented people and also close minded ones. What use is it to compare people with people, country to country? Does it make you feel better yourself? If it does I recommend therapy, I know some good therapists in Malaysia. So welcome and Selamat datang ke Malaysia
Everyone accepted this woman’s story until she began speaking out against America’s current decline. She lived through the horrors of socialist NK, so why would she not warn the U.S. when it’s government is following in the same footsteps? Just admit you don’t like her politics instead accusing her of lying.
All I need to know is that this guy is sitting alone in a room with a mask on lol
All the way back from 2014 people have called her out for embellishment. You only defend her because she affirms your politics
@@ihavenojawandimustscream4681 Somehow I can’t bring myself to believe that a NK defector would have to “embellish” the horror of what goes on within the walls of that country. And I do defend her because her politics are spot on. She escaped from socialism and is warning America to turn from going that route too.
@@hannahwise619 she did, there are articles in US media pointing out how her stories were inconsistent, her fellow defectors calling her a liar,etc. There were many red flags here. This is as far back as 2014 she was already known as a celebrity defector
You right wingers out of all people should know that some folks like to embellish their sufferings and oppression to get money and fame
@@hannahwise619 She's getting called out by other defectors, including her own mom. Her making exaggerated claims always the North Korea to handwave it as propaganda.
The defector community feels she's just making claims to make money.
So she basically gets paid for lying and the more shocking the story, the better?
I feel ashamed for buying her book months ago -_-
I never buy any books from any person about their lives, there could be any bs written in it ,just doesn't interest me
Don’t look up to celebrities or public figures you don’t know them you know what they want you to know that’s the rule I go by