Monday, December 22, 2014

Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World (condensed version)

Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World (condensed version)

Full version:

Web-link: http://jooparkblog.blogspot.kr/2014/12/yeonmi-park-defector-who-fooled-world.html

PDF https://www.scribd.com/doc/250784546/Yeonmi-Park-the-Defector-Who-Fooled-the-World



Q: Yeonmi crossed into China with both parents and her mother was not raped (version 1) or she only crossed with her mom, who was raped (v2)?

Version 1
I Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)

7:58 I went to China with my family - so my mom, my father, and I had an older sister…but I lost her. Three people went to China...


Insight: S2014 Ep8 - Changing a Mindset (April 8, 2014 talk show interview)

45:00 - “In 2007, I left North Korea with my mom and my father,

5:30-5:40 - “I escaped with my mom and father – the three of us.”



Version 2







Q: Yeonmi never even saw anyone in NK eating grass/starving (version 1), or she actually ate grass/starved (v2)?

Version 1
Yeonmi on the South Korean talk show “Now On My Way to Meet You,” featuring North Korean defectors telling stories about their lives. Originally published on Jan 20, 2013 http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow

(Host): “When other members on the show mentioned that they were eating grass and starving, Yae-ju (Yeonmi) said, 'We didn’t have that kind of situation in North Korea!'”

(Yeonmi's mom): “Sometimes after filming, Yae-ju (Yeonmi) called me and asked, ‘Mom, am I really North Korean? Because I couldn’t understand what the other members on the show were talking about.’”

“She thought other members were totally lying” (about the hunger and other hardships they witnessed and experienced)...



Version 2
BBC News: 'I escaped death in North Korea' (October 29, 2014)

2:18 (Yeonmi) Just only what we knew was that if we are staying here, we were going to die from (lack of) food… I was the one who starved… I literally had to eat grass, dragonflies and frozen potatoes.



Yeonmi, then nine, and her 11-year-old sister, Eunmi, lived on their own during that time, eating rice, dragonflies, frogs, and grass to survive.




Q: After her parents' imprisonment, Yeonmi (9) lived with her aunt (version 1), or lived alone with her sister (11) while eating grass/bugs (v2)?


Version 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0 (BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)

4:10 (Yeonmi) After my mother and father went to prison, the four of us all separated. So my sister went to my uncle’s house, and I went to my aunt’s house -- and I lived there for three years.



Version 2
Her mother, too, was interrogated and thrown into jail. Yeonmi and her sister, Eunmi were left to fend for themselves, at the age of nine and 11, foraging on the mountainsides for grasses, plants, frogs and even dragonflies to avoid starving to death. "Everything I used to see, I ate them," she said.



Q: Yeonmi saw her friend's mom publicly executed on the street or in a stadium? At age 11 or 9? Due to SK/US dramas, US/SK film, or James Bond?

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3




Q: Yeonmi buried her father's body by herself (version 1), or cremated his body and buried the ashes with her mom (v2)?


Version 1
MOTHER (Translation): We paid two people to help carry his body. They went deep into the mountains and Yeon-mi went with them. Yeon-mi carried her father's body.
YEON-MI PARK: And then at 3 a.m. we had to move his body. Everybody's sleeping and then I buried him. Like, at midnight, by myself...



Version 2
...family were forced to bribe a local crematorium to destroy his body by night.
At three the following morning, Yeonmi and her mother took his remains to a nearby mountain and secretly buried them.




Q: Yeonmi's father was arrested in 2004 or 2002? Imprisoned for three years or five?

Version 1
I Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)

2:26 In 2004, my whole world came crashing down. My father, my hero was arrested for his illegal trading business. It was three long years before I saw my father again.


Version 2
Yeonmi’s TEDx Talk in Bath, UK (November 2014)

1:52 In 2002, when I was 9 years old, my whole world came crashing down. My hero - my father - got arrested for his illegal business.

5:53 In 2007, after my father got out of prison to get treatment...




Q: Yeonmi's mother was imprisoned for three years, six months, one year, or two years?

Version 1
Yeonmi’s speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin

Version 2

Version 3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0 (BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)

Version 4





Q: Was Yeonmi really forced to strip naked every day for months while she was at a detention center in Mongolia?

Version 1

Yeonmi and her mother were taken to a detention center in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, where Yeonmi was forced to remove all of her clothes every day for months. “I was a little girl and felt so ashamed...

Version 2
(South Korean experts who work at the North Korean refugee processing center, rejecting Yeonmi's claims).
#questionsforyeonmipark


Further questions and details provided in the full version.

Web-link: http://jooparkblog.blogspot.kr/2014/12/yeonmi-park-defector-who-fooled-world.html

PDF https://www.scribd.com/doc/250784546/Yeonmi-Park-the-Defector-Who-Fooled-the-World



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