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North Korean defector describes hellish life inside rogue regime
NyPost.com ^ | 9/3/20 | By Ebony Bowden

Posted on 09/03/2020 10:41:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

North Korean defector describes hellish life inside rogue regime

Growing up in North Korea, Yeonmi Park did not know of the concepts of love or friendship.

Everyone was a “comrade” and feelings of adoration were reserved for the rogue regime’s supreme leader alone. Her parents never told her they loved her.

It was part of everyday life to see people dying of starvation on the streets and with no electricity, Park’s life was ensconced in total darkness and freezing cold.

Park is just one of several hundred North Korean defectors who have escaped to the United States after she and her mother fled in 2007 when she was just 13 years old.

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This is laughable, obviously she is lying as Democrats tell us Marxism can only result in Utopia.
1 posted on 09/03/2020 10:41:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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2 posted on 09/03/2020 10:43:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very)
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Of course - look at all those pictures of NK on the internet - happy people, smiling faces pretty city; obviously propaganda.


3 posted on 09/03/2020 10:44:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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Yup, and BLM,Inc and Antifas want this. I don’t even think they are looking for Utopia. They just want no societal restrictions and think they will run free. It won’t happen.


4 posted on 09/03/2020 10:46:00 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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Yes, but she is also "Not Guilty".

5 posted on 09/03/2020 10:46:58 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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I watched her give a speech on C-Span about 5 years ago when she was on a book tour or something. I cried when she described life in NK versus the US.


6 posted on 09/03/2020 10:49:22 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Irish lives matter!)
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Growing up in North Korea, Yeonmi Park did not know of the concepts of love or friendship. Everyone was a “comrade” and feelings of adoration were reserved for the rogue regime’s supreme leader alone. Her parents never told her they loved her. …
Sounds very, very familiar.
We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future, there will be no wives and no friends. […] There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother (Dear Leader). There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. …
Orwell completely nailed it when it comes to these kind of regimes.
7 posted on 09/03/2020 10:53:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Orwell got the concepts from Marx and Engles. All of the breakdown of society in socialist states and ideologies are all outlined in Marx’s and Engles’ works. A culture of distrust is necessary in order to control the thoughts of the workers and protect them from the ever present threat of capitalist thought. It’ all in the “manual”.


8 posted on 09/03/2020 10:58:51 AM PDT by Intar
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"“If I hadn’t been born in that oppression and complete darkness, I don’t think I would see the light here. I think people here, they don’t see the light and only see darkness and for me I see so much light,” she said.

What a beautiful observation.

9 posted on 09/03/2020 10:59:54 AM PDT by edwinland
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That’s absolutely right.
In bourgeois society … the past controls the present; in communist society, the present controls the past.
Straight out of the Manifesto’s second chapter. The USSR put that into practice, as did everyone that followed them in that sick “revolution” into dystopia.
10 posted on 09/03/2020 11:03:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Also embodied in the Manifesto’s calls for the abolition of the family and of private property.


11 posted on 09/03/2020 11:03:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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If you ask me which historical figure I would have aborted if I could, Karl Marx would probably be my pick.


12 posted on 09/03/2020 11:04:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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PLUS, they have a wonderful diet plan -— there’s only ONE overweight person in the whole of North Korea -— its LEADER!


13 posted on 09/03/2020 11:05:11 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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She’s so pretty. I hope she finds true peace.


14 posted on 09/03/2020 11:07:43 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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It is. I would be very curious to know what she thinks of democrats pushing Marxism. I take it she would be very upset.


15 posted on 09/03/2020 11:09:03 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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My thoughts as well; The ohpoorecessive regimes are in the blue states, the inner cities.


16 posted on 09/03/2020 11:11:04 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I know I saw her do a Ted talk where she proceeded to bash Trump. She’s been co-opted by the left already


17 posted on 09/03/2020 11:12:16 AM PDT by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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WHAT? Are you serious? What the hell, what does she have, stockholm syndrome? Does she have any idea what Democrats support? Unreal.


18 posted on 09/03/2020 11:15:12 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Co-opted is right, I can just imagine the BS they told her. I’m going to write to her and ask.


19 posted on 09/03/2020 11:16:17 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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She probably did so because she saw Trump schmoozing Dear Leader and not being sophisticated about the idea of saying ‘nice doggie’ while reaching for a stick, she may have thought he was really pandering and kissing butt.


20 posted on 09/03/2020 11:21:46 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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