What It's Actually Like Living In North Korea - Yeonmi Park | Modern Wisdom Podcast 356

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, an author and a YouTuber.

North Korea is the most shrouded, dictatorial and walled-off nation on earth. The only press who are permitted access are get shown a performance masquerading as real life and leaving the country is essentially impossible. At 13 years old, Yeonmi escaped along with her sister & mother.

Expect to learn how North Korea's citizens are conned into spying on each other, why it's better to die than go to prison, how the state has managed to get the total escapees down to 0 in the last few years, if Yeonmi is scared about retribution from Kim-Jong Un and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:29 Dreams of North Korea
05:00 What Life is Like as a Citizen
16:49 Why is there Perpetual Famine?
20:40 Crime & Prison Camps
24:48 The North Korean Leaders’ Lineage
32:16 Kim Jong-Il’s Eldest Son
39:03 How Does North Korea Make Money?
45:22 North Korean Defectors
50:10 Should We Be Concerned About China?
1:01:04 The Repercussions of Yeonmi Defecting
1:06:18 Where to Find Yeonmi

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