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... Sponsors: Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Extra Stuff: Buy In Order To Live - https://amzn.to/37jDKdB Check out Yeonmi's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQu57KgT7gOoLCAu3FFQsA Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #northkorea #yeonmipark #china - 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 - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Yeonmi ParkguestChris Williamsonhost

Aug 9, 20211h 6mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 9, 2021
Duration: 1h 6m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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... Sponsors: Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and Free Shipping from Athletic Greens at https://athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Extra Stuff: Buy In Order To Live - https://amzn.to/37jDKdB Check out Yeonmi's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpQu57KgT7gOoLCAu3FFQsA Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #northkorea #yeonmipark #china - 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 - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Yeonmi Park
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Yeonmi Park and Chris Williamson, What It's Actually Like Living In North Korea - Yeonmi Park | Modern Wisdom Podcast 356 explores north Korean Defector Exposes Life Inside a Modern-Day Slave State Yeonmi Park recounts her experiences growing up in North Korea, describing it as a nationwide concentration camp enforced through hunger, fear, and a rigid caste system. She details daily life dominated by forced labor, political indoctrination, and the complete absence of personal autonomy or concepts like 'I' or individual rights. The conversation explores the Kim family’s hereditary dictatorship, methods of repression including prison camps, executions, and overseas slave labor, plus North Korea’s revenue streams from drugs, weapons, and human trafficking. Park and Williamson also discuss China’s enabling role, global indifference to ongoing slavery and genocide, and the fragility of Western freedoms amid rising self-hatred and censorship.

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