Yeonmi Park 박연미 | |
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| Born | 4 October 1993 Hyesan, Ryanggang Province, DPRK |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Known for | Promoting Anti-communism |
Yeonmi Park is a defector from the DPRK. She is backed by a U.S. libertarian organization called the Atlas Foundation. She believes the U.S. has "fallen to socialism". Her stories are highly inconsistent and contain large amounts of false information.[1]
Inconsistencies in stories
Park claims that her best friend's mother was executed at a stadium in Hyesan in 2002, but there have not been any public executions in the DPRK since 1999. Park initially said that she was executed for watching a James Bond movie, but later said it was a DVD from South Korea. Both of these actions would likely not lead to an execution or even an arrest.[1]
In 2014, Park said that she defected to China from the DPRK with her mother and father. She later changed the story and claimed that her father stayed behind.
In January 2013, she said that she never saw anyone starving in the DPRK. She later claimed that she saw people eating grass and insects to survive.
In an interview with North Korea Today, she said that she could not afford to go to school in the DPRK. In another interview with them, she talked about what she learned in school and said the DPRK had a free education system.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mary Ann Jolley (2014-12-10). "The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park" The Diplomat. Archived from the original on 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
- ↑ "Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World" (2014-12-22). JooPark3782 Blog. Archived from the original on 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-08-05.