#196 – Yeonmi Park: North Korea

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Live. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(09:20) – Growing up in North Korea

(14:45) – Animal Farm

(21:00) – Search for meaning

(25:48) – Love

(28:05) – Language

(32:28) – Yeonmi’s dad

(34:30) – Escaping North Korea

(39:47) – The world is ignoring the genocide in North Korea

(51:49) – Evil

(54:40) – Nuclear war

(55:30) – Marxist origins of North Korea

(1:00:43) – Famine

(1:05:30) – Kim Jong-un is pure evil

(1:12:06) – Freedom

(1:15:18) – Michael Malice

(1:18:57) – Diversity

(1:26:18) – Political correctness

(1:35:50) – Jordan Peterson

(1:40:01) – Michael Malice book on North Korea

(1:45:31) – Advice for young people

(1:48:33) – Facing assassination

(1:58:47) – Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

(2:01:20) – Meaning of life