Posted on 07/05/2022 7:06:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This is one of the letters in the article:
The Constitution
By Yeonmi Park
I read the Constitution for the first time when I finally made it from North Korea to South Korea. I was studying English, and collecting letters of recommendation in the hopes that I would win a visa and be able to travel across the ocean to America. Even with my broken English, I teared up reading the sentences. I didn’t know then what the word dignity meant, but that was what I felt for the first time in my life.
My mother and I didn't risk our lives trekking across the Gobi Desert so we could buy a nice car or live in a nice home. We did it to get an I.D. from a government that recognized us as human beings—not as slaves. To us, to become American was like winning a thousand lotteries.
I officially became an American six months ago. It was January in Chicago, the judge was late, we were all in masks, and there were no guests allowed. In my heart, though, I became an American when I first read the Constitution. That day in Chicago, I was given a copy of that document, plus my naturalization certificate, and instructions for registering to vote after I took my oath. Then, I celebrated by going out for steak at the Ralph Lauren Cafe in downtown Chicago with family and a few friends (my mom, who is in South Korea, joined via Facetime.)
It was important to me to eat steak that night because back in North Korea, my mom witnessed the public execution of a man in his twenties who had killed and eaten a cow from a collective farm. He was dying of starvation and he had tuberculosis, but the cow was the government's property, so he was put to death. The regime there gives more rights to cows than to human beings.
Now that I’m an American, I get to eat steak as much as I want. And Kim Jong-un can’t do anything about it.
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and the author of “In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom.”
I bet that the communist democRATs hate immigrants like this.
If you have the time, search on YouTube for Yeonmi Park’s interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, it’s gut wrenching that places like she describes actually exist.
She had per appendix taken out in a North Korean Hospital without anesthesia because they don’t have anesthesia in North Korea, single syringes being used on multiple patients, etc.
Stacks of dead bodies lying on the ground with rats eating their eyes out while children chase the rats hoping to kill one for food.
Look up her interview with Dennis Prager. That's a good one, too.
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