tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840248990026692172024-02-28T23:25:28.798-08:00JooPark3782 BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384024899002669217.post-84357110874877314622014-12-22T12:11:00.002-08:002014-12-22T12:44:54.007-08:00Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World (condensed version)<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Yeonmi
Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World (condensed version)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Web-link:
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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
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>July
10, 2014)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>7:58
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went to China with my family</span></b></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>-
so my mom, my father, and I had an older sister…but I lost her.
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Three
people went to China...</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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S2014 Ep8 - Changing a Mindset </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(April
8, 2014 talk show interview)</b></span></span></div>
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- “In 2007</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
I left North Korea </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
my mom and my father</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,</b></span></span></div>
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(June 22, 2014 radio interview)</b></span></span></span></div>
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- </span>“<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
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with my mom and father</span></b></u></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
– </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
three of us</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/celebrity-defector#interviewwithmaryann"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/celebrity-defector#interviewwithmaryann</b></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October
10, 2014</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">article
based on Yeonmi’s interview with the Telegraph)</span></span></span></div>
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(</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October
28, 2014</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</a>
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31, 2014</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></span></span></div>
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Yeonmi never even saw anyone in NK eating grass/starving (version 1),
or she actually ate grass/starved (v2)? </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOAXaB5LTxg"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOAXaB5LTxg</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi
on the South Korean talk show “Now On My Way to Meet You,”
featuring North Korean defectors telling stories about their lives.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Originally
published on </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Jan
20, 2013</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span><a href="http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow</b></u></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">(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!'”</span></b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(Yeonmi's
mom): “Sometimes after filming, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yae-ju
(Yeonmi</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>)
called me and asked, ‘</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mom,
am I really North Korean?</span></b></u></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Because
I couldn’t understand what the other members on the show were
talking about.’”</span></b></span> </span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>She
thought other members were totally lying” (about the hunger and
other hardships they witnessed and experienced)...</b></span></span></span></span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFuFUSPePM"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFuFUSPePM</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BBC
News: 'I escaped death in North Korea' </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(October
29, 2014)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:18
(Yeonmi) Just only what we knew was that if we are staying here, we
were going to die from (lack of) food… </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
was the one who starved… I literally had to eat grass, dragonflies
and frozen potatoes.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</a>
</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October
31, 2014</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">article
based on Yeonmi’s interview)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">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. </span></b></span></span>
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After her parents' imprisonment, Yeonmi (9) lived with her aunt
(version 1), or lived alone with her sister (11) while eating
grass/bugs (v2)?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">4:10
(Yeonmi) After my mother and father went to prison, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
four of us all separated. So my sister went to my uncle’s house,
and I went to my aunt’s house</span></u></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
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and I lived there for three years</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Her
mother, too, was interrogated and thrown into jail. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her sister, Eunmi were left to fend for themselves,</span></u></span></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">at
the age of nine and 11, foraging on the mountainsides for grasses,
plants, frogs and even dragonflies to avoid starving to death</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
"Everything I used to see, I ate them," she said.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>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? </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/transcripts/363709_insight_changingamindset_transcript.html">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/transcripts/363709_insight_changingamindset_transcript.html</a>
</b></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(April
8, 2014)</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</a>
(article based on an interview with Yeonmi</b></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>)
(October 18, 2014)</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(long article about Yeonmi based on an extensive interview)</b></span></span></span></div>
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Yeonmi buried her father's body by herself (version 1), or cremated
his body and buried the ashes with her mom (v2)?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=384024899002669217#interviewwithmaryann"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/celebrity-defector#interviewwithmaryann</span></span></a></span></div>
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(Translation): We </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>paid
two people to help carry </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">his
body</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
They </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>went
deep into the mountains </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and
Yeon-mi went with them. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeon-mi
carried her father's body.</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YEON-MI
PARK: And then at 3 a.m. we had to move his body. Everybody's
sleeping and then </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
buried him.</span></u></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Like,
at midnight, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">by
myself...</span></u></span></span> </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
2</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(long article about Yeonmi based on an extensive interview)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">...family
were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">forced
to bribe</span></b></u></span></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">a
local crematorium to destroy his body</span></b></u></span></span><u>
</u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>by
night.</b></span></span><u> </u></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At
three the following morning, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her mother took his remains to a nearby mountain</span></u></span></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">and
secretly buried them.</span></u></span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Q:
Yeonmi's father was arrested in 2004 or 2002? Imprisoned for three
years or five?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
1</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:26
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2004</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">my whole world came crashing
down. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
father, my hero was arrested</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">for
his illegal trading business. It was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">three
long years</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">before
I saw my father again. </span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
2</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3kC4uKDJU"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3kC4uKDJU</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
TEDx Talk in Bath, UK (November 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1:52
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2002, when I was 9 years old</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>my whole world came crashing
down. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
hero - my father - got arrested</span></b></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">for</span></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">his illegal business.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:53
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2007, after my father got out of prison</span></u></span><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">to
get treatment...</span></u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Q:
Yeonmi's mother was imprisoned for three years, six months, one year,
or two years?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
1</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI</a>
</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
2</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Version
3</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Version
4</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</b></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Q:
Was Yeonmi really forced to strip naked every day for months while
she was at a detention center in Mongolia?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
1</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
and her mother were taken to a detention center in Ulan Bator, the
capital of Mongolia, where </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
was </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">forced
to remove all of her clothes every day for months.</span></b></u></span></span>
“<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I
was a little girl and felt so ashamed...</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Version
2</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</b></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(South
Korean experts who work at the North Korean refugee processing
center, rejecting Yeonmi's claims).</b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>#questionsforyeonmipark
</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Further
questions and details provided in the full version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Web-link:
http://jooparkblog.blogspot.kr/2014/12/yeonmi-park-defector-who-fooled-world.html</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>PDF
https://www.scribd.com/doc/250784546/Yeonmi-Park-the-Defector-Who-Fooled-the-World</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384024899002669217.post-71036583294561177972014-12-22T11:55:00.000-08:002014-12-22T11:55:42.192-08:00Yeonmi Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Yeonmi
Park: The Defector Who Fooled the World</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m
writing this message because I care about human rights and North
Korean defectors. I was initially a big supporter of Yeonmi Park
until I read Mary Ann <a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/">Jolley’s
exposé at the Diplomat.com</a>. Then I realized something was very
wrong with Yeonmi’s story. So I began to do some research. The more
I researched, the more shocked and outraged I became at the extent of
her lies. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Many
people are still unaware of Jolley’s article or are not willing to
believe that Yeonmi is misleading us. I made this document for
everyone to see the truth. Ms. Park is doing serious harm to the
human rights field and to North Korean defectors. After she is
exposed, many people around the world are going to feel betrayed.
They may not be willing to listen or care about other defectors. That
would be a tragic mistake, since many other defectors are surely
honest and deserve our support. </span></span>
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park
Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had
a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money
would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help
defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands. I was
relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat.com article by taking
her foundation website down. </span></span>
</div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Her
explanation (“it was a dummy website made by a friend that
accidentally went live and couldn’t really receive donations”) is
obviously very dubious. We should thank Jolley for helping to ensure
that donations to defectors go through reputable charities, with
oversight and clear guidelines for how the money will be used.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’m
still very concerned that Yeonmi and some of the people around her
have a high potential to mislead others and harm North Korean
defector causes. So I’m sending this document out in the hopes that
you will help spread the truth. This information can be shared via
email, as a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=384024899002669217#editor/target=post;postID=7103658329456117797">web-link
from my blogger website</a> or downloaded as a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/250784546/Yeonmi-Park-the-Defector-Who-Fooled-the-World">PDF
at Scribd.com</a>.</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’ve
divided this document into four parts. Part I includes the most
serious questions for Yeonmi. I ask that if Yeonmi responds to these
questions, she do it in the order that the questions are posed. I
think the responses to the Diplomat.com exposé by Yeonmi and her
promoter, Casey Lartigue Jr., were very misleading and vague. I’ve
challenged their responses in Part II. Part III includes some of
Yeonmi’s other suspicious and inconsistent stories, but I don't
want any questions from Part III to be discussed until Part I is
addressed first. People have been distracted or confused by less
important questions while missing the big picture. Part IV is the
conclusion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>PART
I: KEY QUESTIONS FOR YEONMI PARK</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI’S
ESCAPE FROM NORTH KOREA:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q1</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
DID YEONMI CROSS THE BORDER INTO CHINA SAFELY WITH BOTH PARENTS
(VERSION 1), OR WAS HER MOM RAPED IN FRONT OF HER BECAUSE HER FATHER
WAS NOT THERE TO PROTECT THEM (VERSION 2)?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
1:</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>YEONMI
AND HER PARENTS</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">CROSSED
THE BORDER TOGETHER</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
</span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">THE
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">FATHER
WAS THERE</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">TO PROTECT THEM, AND
THERE IS </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">NO
MENTION OF THE RAPE STORY</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>July
10, 2014)</b></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7:58
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
went to China with my family</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
- so my mom, my father, and I</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
had an older sister…but I lost her. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Three
people went to China</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and for the first time I couldn’t believe my eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Fovpy6lmg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Fovpy6lmg</a>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Insight:
S2014 Ep8 - Changing a Mindset (</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>April
8, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> talk show
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">45:00
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I left North Korea </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
my mom and my father</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
without my sister.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://static.squarespace.com/static/53615d24e4b0a4907f99ed24/t/53a8f1b2e4b04eb3d0ae79aa/1403580850616/Bob%20Zadek%20Show%20%20June%2022%202014.mp3/original/Bob+Zadek+Show++June+22+2014.mp3">http://static.squarespace.com/static/53615d24e4b0a4907f99ed24/t/53a8f1b2e4b04eb3d0ae79aa/1403580850616/Bob%20Zadek%20Show%20%20June%2022%202014.mp3/original/Bob+Zadek+Show++June+22+2014.mp3</a>
(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>June 22, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:30-5:40
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</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">escaped
with my mom and father</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
– the three of us</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZuk6AqA0U"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZuk6AqA0U</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">TEDxHangang
5th Event </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">박연미
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</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">박연미 </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">|
TEDxHangang </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(July 26,
2014)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:15
(Yeonmi speaking Korean) “</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I
decided with my parents to leave the country</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">…
I crossed the Yalu River.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=384024899002669217#interviewwithmaryann"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/celebrity-defector#interviewwithmaryann</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">At
just 16, Eun-mi fled the country with a friend. Her family was
devastated.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Desperate
to find her sister, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeon-mi
and her parents walked across</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the
mountains to the border, where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">they
bribed guards to cross the Tumen River to China</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>.
</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
there was no sign of Eun-mi.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Journalist
Mary Ann Jolley):</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park
told us</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">and
a libertarian radio station</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
in San Francisco earlier this year that four days after her older
sister fled the country, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
and her mother and father crossed to China together.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In
her interview with us she recalled the feeling she had as she crossed
the river </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>…
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>“</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">And
there were cars to get us because</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">of</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
the connections [</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">her
father’s business connections</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">]
</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
Chinese</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
people </span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">and</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">then</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">we
went to China directly.”</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:
In </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>numerous
interviews and her own speeches</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
Yeonmi says that she crossed the border into China with her mom and
dad. </b></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
these speeches and interviews before she became famous, she never
mentions the story of her mother being raped.</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">*************
SUDDENLY, THE STORY CHANGED ******************</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
2</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">ONLY
YEONMI AND HER MOM</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
CROSSED</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
THE BORDER INTO CHINA </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">(WITHOUT
HER FATHER)</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
AND SINCE THEY WERE VULNERABLE, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI’S
MOTHER WAS RAPED</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CONSIDERING
THE </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">ABRUPT
CHANGE IN NARRATIVE</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">DOES
ANYONE HONESTLY BELIEVE THIS RAPE STORY IS TRUE?</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October 10, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
article based on Yeonmi’s interview with the Telegraph)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And
so, on the night of March 30 2007, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her mother</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
made their way towards the border </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
the help of a people smuggler</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s
father stayed behind</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">minimise
the risks</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
They crossed three mountains and finally came to a frozen river that
separated the two countries.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
Yeonmi stopped she found herself in the Chinese province of Jilin.
Here, Yeonmi and her mother set about trying to find her sister. But
she was nowhere to be found and the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>local
people smugglers </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>refused
to help</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>.</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">One
even threatened to turn them in to Chinese authorities unless he was
allowed to have sex with Yeonmi</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">mother</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">implored
the man to leave her daughter alone and</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">offered
herself instead.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
‘</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She
had no choice,’ </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
says. ‘Literally, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
front of me, he raped her.’</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A
few days later Yeonmi’s father, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">who
had become concerned about their lengthy absence,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
slipped across the border and managed to join them.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Previously</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
Yeonmi said that </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">her
parents bribed border guards</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
to get across the border. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Now</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
Yeonmi is saying that she and her mother were </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">guided
across by a people smuggler.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</a>
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(</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>October 31,
2014</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">On
the night of March 30, 2007, Yeonmi and her mother set out to join
Eunmi. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Guided by a
people smuggler</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
they crossed a frozen river that separated the two countries. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
they arrived in the Chinese province of Jilin, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">local
authorities refused to help them find Eunmi. One demanded to have sex
with Yeonmi</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">who
was barely 14</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and threatened to send her and her mother back to North Korea if she
didn’t oblige</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
When her mother begged for mercy, she was raped instead. “She told
me to turn around, but I could hear her crying. It seemed like he had
done this a thousand times.”</span></span></div>
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they were </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>joined by
Yeonmi’s father</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note:
The same inconsistencies are repeated in this article, but </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">now
she claims it was a local authority</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
in China who raped her mother </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">instead
of a people smuggler</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Crossing the border from North Korea to China is very risky and
dangerous. Many North Koreans get caught trying and sent to prison.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>After
Yeonmi’s sister went missing, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">would
the family risk further separation </span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">by
leaving the father behind in North Korea, </span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">while
the mother and young daughter venture into China alone</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">?</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>family
would have to risk two separate border crossings, plus the potential
trafficking of Yeonmi and her mom</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
instead of all going together.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s
</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">original
story, that she and her parents crossed the border together, is
probably true</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
which would make the </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">story
of her mother’s rape false.</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/park-yeonmi-is-a-north-korean-celebrity">http://www.vice.com/read/park-yeonmi-is-a-north-korean-celebrity</a>
(</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>November
4, 2014</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Park
was referring to a moment when, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>separated
from her father</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
her mother was raped in front of her by a people smuggler </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">who
had threatened to turn them into the Chinese authorities unless
he could have sex with the 13-year-old Park. Desperate to protect
her daughter, her mother offered herself instead.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-29809557">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-29809557</a>
(</span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>October
28, 2014</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
I was 13, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I
saw my mother raped in front of my own eyes</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
The rapist targeted me and wanted to have sex with me. I didn’t
even know the word sex. My mother got raped instead, and she
sacrificed herself to be raped for me.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Comment:
</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Look
at the dates of when she is telling different versions of her escape
story.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Version
1</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
of her escape story (she crossed with her parents, no mention of
rape) occurred </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>earlier
in 2014, when she was lesser known</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>After
the growing media attention, she suddenly starts telling Version 2</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
(she only crossed the border with her mom, and her mom was raped).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q2</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
DID YEONMI WITNESS OR EXPERIENCE STARVATION/EATING GRASS TO SURVIVE
IN NORTH KOREA?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>VERSION
ONE:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI
NEVER EVEN SAW ANYONE STARVING OR EATING GRASS TO SURVIVE</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
AND SHE </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">DEFINITELY</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">DIDN’T
EXPERIENCE THAT HERSELF.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOAXaB5LTxg"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOAXaB5LTxg</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi
on the South Korean talk show “Now On My Way to Meet You,”
featuring North Korean defectors telling stories about their lives </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Originally
published on</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
Jan 20, 2013</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><a href="http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />[</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">이제
만나러 갑니다</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">]
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2013/01/20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">방송
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">58</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">회</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(During
this show, Yeonmi’s pseudonym was “Yae-ju”)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Conversation
from 2:00-4:00 in the YouTube clip)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Host
Nam Hee Seok): </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">When
other members on the show mentioned that they were eating grass and
starving, </span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yae-ju
(</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi)
said, “We didn’t have that kind of situation in North Korea!”</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Why
did she say that? She didn’t witness that kind of situation when
she was young?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Yeonmi’s
Mom):</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> “We were not
that rich, but at least we weren’t suffering.” </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Her
mom then says</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
that other North Koreans would ask Yae-ju (Yeonmi) about what kind of
rice she was eating, since </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">others
couldn’t afford to eat white rice. But Yeonmi only ate white rice.)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mom:
Her father did his best to give his kids a better life, so…</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
kids didn’t know the truth about what was going on in North Korea.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">So </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>when
Yae-ju (Yeonmi) came on this show, it was her opportunity to learn
the real truth about North Korea</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">”
(from other members on this show).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
Mom: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Sometimes after
filming, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yae-ju
(Yeonmi</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>)
called me and asked, ‘</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mom,
am I really North Korean?</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
Because I couldn’t understand what the other members on the show
were talking about.’</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">She
thought other members were totally lying (about the hunger and other
hardships they witnessed and experienced).</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Host:
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Right.</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
When she came here for the first time, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
said that they were lying</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">!</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
Mom: Yes, but I watched that episode, and what the other members said
is totally true. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>COMMENT</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
SO…ON A TALK SHOW </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">IN</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">JANUARY</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">2013</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">LONG</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">BEFORE
SHE BECAME FAMOUS, YEONMI SAID </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">SHE
NEVER EVEN SAW ANYONE STARVING OR EATING GRASS</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>TO SURVIVE.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">**AFTER
INCREASING MEDIA ATTENTION</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">HER
STORY CHANGED AGAIN **</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
TWO</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>YEONMI
NOW SAYS SHE WITNESSED OTHERS STARVING/EATING GRASS AND BUGS, AND
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI
ACTUALLY STARVED AND ATE GRASS/BUGS TO SURVIVE</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFuFUSPePM"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFuFUSPePM</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BBC
News: 'I escaped death in North Korea' </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(October
29, 2014)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:18
(Yeonmi)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Just only
what we knew was that if we are staying here, we were going to die
from (lack of) food… </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
was the one who starved… I literally had to eat grass, dragonflies
and frozen potatoes.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</a>
</span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(</span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>October
31, 2014</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
article based on Yeonmi’s interview)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi,
then nine, and her 11-year-old sister, Eunmi, lived on their own
during that time, eating rice, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">dragonflies,
frogs, and grass to survive.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</a>
</span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(</span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>October
18, 2014</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
article based on Yeonmi’s interview)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
and her sister, Eunmi</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
were left to fend for themselves, at the age of nine and 11, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">foraging
on the mountainsides for grasses, plants, frogs and even dragonflies
to avoid starving to death. "Everything I used to see, I ate
them</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,"</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
she said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Asked
if any adults around knew the children were surviving alone, Yeonmi
tries to explain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"People
were dying there. They don't care... most people are just hungry</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and that's why they don't have the spirit or time to take care of
other people."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOPQVJKvSc"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOPQVJKvSc</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hong
Kong Special [North Korea Today (feat. Casey & Yeonmi)] </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>September
2014</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3:16
(Yeonmi) During the Great Famine time, and </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">even
not during the Great Famine</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
for me </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">to
watch dead bodies was my routine life</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.
That’s how many people were dying from (lack of) food, and
starving.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q3</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT HAPPENED TO YEONMI AND HER SISTER AFTER THEIR PARENTS WERE
IMPRISONED?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
ONE</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">: THEY WERE
ALL SEPARATED. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI
LIVED WITH HER AUNT AND HER SISTER LIVED WITH HER UNCLE</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4:10
(Yeonmi) After my mother and father went to prison, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
four of us all separated</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
So </span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">my</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">sister
went to my uncle’s house, and I went to my aunt’s house</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
-- </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">and
I lived there for three years</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
TWO</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI
(9) AND HER SISTER (11) LIVED ALONE</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
AND </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">STRUGGLED
TO SURVIVE BY EATING GRASS, BUGS</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
ETC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Her
mother, too, was interrogated and thrown into jail.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her sister, Eunmi were left to fend for themselves,</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
at the age of nine and 11, foraging on the mountainsides for grasses,
plants, frogs and even dragonflies to avoid starving to death</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
"Everything I used to see, I ate them," she said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:10
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(James Chau) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
asked her, where did you live? And she said, “With my sister.”</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(her sister was 11
and Yeonmi was 9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:22
They survived by going into the mountains and picking the grass and
the flowers for their food.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:18
(reporter) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Who looked
after you?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:20
(Yeonmi) </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Nobody.
My sister and I (looked after ourselves)</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">…</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
We had to find ways to eat and I had to learn how to cook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:50
I ate dragonflies and frogs on the mountain.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/391469/witness-hell/page/0/1"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/391469/witness-hell/page/0/1</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
girls ate dragonflies, frogs, tree bark, and grass… “We had to
survive,” says Yeonmi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI’S
PUBLIC EXECUTION STORY</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q4</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
DID YEONMI REALLY SEE HER BEST FRIEND’S MOM PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN
2002?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--DUE
TO SOUTH KOREAN DRAMAS, A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE OR A JAMES BOND MOVIE? </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--EXECUTED
IN A STADIUM, OR ON THE STREET?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--HOW
OLD WAS YEONMI AT THE TIME, ELEVEN OR NINE?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/transcripts/363709_insight_changingamindset_transcript.html">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/transcripts/363709_insight_changingamindset_transcript.html</a>
</span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>(April
8, 2014)</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YEONMI
PARK: (One of my best friends), </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>her</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>mum
saw some like </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">American
dramas or like South Korean dramas</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>and
then she got caught and then they decided to like give her like
punishment as like public execution.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
So I went there with her, my friends, and there I…"</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">JENNY
BROCKIE: This was to see your friend's mother executed? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YEONMI
PARK: Yeah, like </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>public
execution</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
a big stadium</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
I must be there, it's like I need to.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">JENNY
BROCKIE: How old were you when that happened? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YEONMI
PARK: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
was eleven</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>
</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and
I was with my friends. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</a>
(article based on an interview with Yeonmi</span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)
</span></span></span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>(October
18, 2014)</b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
was nine</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
she was forced to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>watch
her best friend's mother being </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">executed
on the street</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
before her eyes.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Her
only crime had been she had </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">watched
a James Bond movie</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and shared the DVDs with neighbours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Watching
her body crumble to the ground was a seismic moment in how Yeonmi
viewed the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(long article about Yeonmi based on an extensive interview)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
Park was </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>nine
years old</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
when she was invited to watch her best friend’s mother be shot. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Her
crime was having </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>watched
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">South
Korean films</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and
lending the DVDs to friends.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Her</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">punishment
in this most paranoid of dictatorships was death by firing squad. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(Yeonmi’s interview with BBC Radio: October 16, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:05-
2:45 My best friend’s mom was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>killed
for watching a </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Hollywood
movie.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
she was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>nine</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
years old, Park was forced to attend the execution of her classmate’s
mother.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Her crime? She
had lent a </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">South
Korean movie</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
to a friend.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The
townsfolk were gathered </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>in
a large stadium</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
to watch the punishment. </span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She
got killed in front of us,” said Park, now 20 years-old. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>“I
was standing next to her daughter</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
- </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>my whole school
had to go.”</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:
I read that during a public execution in North Korea, only the family
members of the victim are forced to watch in the front row, without
anyone else next to them. Is this true? If so, could Yeonmi really
have been standing next to her friend during the execution?</b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
woman stood accused of </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>watching
a contraband </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">James
Bond DVD</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> and
leant it to friends…It’s more than a decade later and she calmly
recalls the shots ringing out, followed by an explosion of blood.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI</a>
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10:33
(Yeonmi) When I was 9 years old, I saw my friend’s mother publicly
executed. Her crime? Watching a </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Hollywood
movie.</b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>in Hong Kong</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
a few months ago, she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlWGcGct5eg">told</a>
an audience the woman had been caught watching </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">South
Korean DVDs</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Irish
Independent </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">journalist</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Nicola Anderson, in a recent online video <a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html">interview</a>
with Park </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">seemed
confused and asked her</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
“</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">It
was a movie from South Korea wasn’t it?” Park’s response was,
“No, Hollywood movie, James Bond.”</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
Park was nine, which would have been around 2002, she says she saw
her best friend’s mother executed at a stadium in Hyesan. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>according
to several North Korean defectors from Hyesan </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">who
didn’t want to be identified for fear of reprisal</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">public
executions only ever took place on the outskirts of the city</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
mostly at the airport, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">never
in the stadium or streets</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and there were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>none
after 2000</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
– the last they recall was a mass execution of ten or eleven people
in 1999.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI’S
FATHER’S BURIAL</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q5</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WAS HER FATHER’S BODY BURIED, OR WAS HE CREMATED? WHO BURIED HER
FATHER’S BODY (OR ASHES)?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=384024899002669217#interviewwithmaryann"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/celebrity-defector#interviewwithmaryann</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">MOTHER
(Translation): We </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">paid
two people to help carry his body</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
They </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>went
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">deep
into the mountains</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and
Yeon-mi went with them. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeon-mi
carried her father's body.</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YEON-MI
PARK: And then at 3 a.m. we had to move his body. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Everybody's
sleeping and then </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
buried him.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
Like, at midnight, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">by
myself</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and I was sitting there and it was so cold. There was nobody I could
call. There was nobody who came to my father's funeral. Nobody knows.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</a>
(long article about Yeonmi based on an extensive interview)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At
7.30 one cold January morning, Yeonmi’s father died. Without
documents and facing arrest and deportation if they were caught by
Chinese police, his family were </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">forced
to bribe</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">a
local crematorium to destroy his body</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>by
night.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At
three the following morning, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her mother took his remains to a nearby mountain</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">and
secretly buried them.</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(Yeonmi’s interview with BBC Radio: October 16, 2014)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8:35
I </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">buried
my father </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">by
myself</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> in
the mountain</span></span></div>
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<br /><br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q6</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER FATHER’S IMPRISONMENT?</span></span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEmDpkz0g4"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEmDpkz0g4</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
N. Korean TV Star Standing Up To Kim Jong-Un (mini-documentary about
Yeonmi, featuring interviews with Yeonmi and her mother)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3:09
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">When
Yeonmi was 8,</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
her father was arrested</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
for smuggling goods to China.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Note:
Yeonmi was 8 in 2001.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:26
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2004</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
my whole world came crashing down. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
father, my hero was arrested</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
for his illegal trading business. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It
was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">three
long years</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
before I saw my father again</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Note:
In 2004, Yeonmi was 11.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Three
years later (in 2007), he was released, when Yeonmi was 14.</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3kC4uKDJU"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg3kC4uKDJU</span></a></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
TEDx Talk in Bath, UK (November 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1:52
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2002, when I was 9 years old</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
my whole world came crashing down. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
hero - my father - got arrested</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
for</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> his illegal
business.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:53</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2007, after my father got out of prison</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">to
get treatment</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
we decided to escape</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">…
Me and my mother went to China. We climbed three mountains and
crossed the frozen river.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Note:
In 2002, Yeonmi was 9.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Above</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
she said he was </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
prison for 3 years (2004-2007).</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Here</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
she says he was </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
prison for 5 years, from 2002-2007.</span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></a></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">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. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">After
three years, Yeonmi’s father bribed his way out of prison</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">but the brutal prison
conditions had taken a toll on his health. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2006, they moved to the countryside</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
close to the Chinese border. Yeonmi’s father was forced to forage
for food, on a lucky day returning with black, frozen potatoes. “We
couldn’t maintain our lives there because we were so hungry,” she
says. “We had to defect.” </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; margin-top: 0.18cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Note:
Above, Yeonmi’s father was released from prison for medical
treatment in 2007. Here, he bribed his way out of prison in 2006.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Park
says her father was sentenced to 17 or 18 years in prison. Her mother
told us he was initially sentenced to a year, but later it was
increased to ten years.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q7</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER MOTHER’S IMPRISONMENT?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI</a>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:05
(James Chau) Her </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">mother
was interrogated for </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">three
years</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
and taken to prison as well.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:10
I asked her, where did you live? And she said, “With my sister.”
(her sister was 11 and Yeonmi was 9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:22
They survived by going into the mountains and picking the grass and
the flowers for their food.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2:38
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Three
years later her mother was released</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park’s
mother told us</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">prosecutors
interrogated her on and off for </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">about
a year</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
– sometimes at home in Hyesan and sometimes elsewhere, because she
had worked in her husband’s trading business. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But,
in a</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>recent
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">BBC
radio <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">interview</a>,
Park claimed her mother was </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">imprisoned
for six months</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>…</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Her
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">mother
was interrogated and sent to prison </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">for
two years</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(BBC Radio interview October 17, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3:50
My mother went to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>prison
for </b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">6
months.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-29809557"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-29809557</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Video
(1:12) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>“My
mom was </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>interrogated
for </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">two
years</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
and </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>then
she went to prison </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>by
breaking a law to move. </u></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q8</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WAS </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">YEONMI
REALLY FORCED TO STRIP NAKED EVERY DAY (FOR MONTHS)</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
WHILE SHE WAS AT A DETENTION CENTER </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">IN
MONGOLIA?</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/31/how-titantic-helped-this-brave-young-woman-escape-north-korea-s-totalitarian-state.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi
and her mother were taken to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>a
detention center in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
was </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">forced
to remove all of her clothes every day for months</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
“I was a little girl and felt so ashamed. I kept thinking, Why do
these people have the privilege to control me like this? I’m human
too, but I wasn’t treated like one.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note:
In all of </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">her
other speeches and interviews, Yeonmi never mentioned this</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.
Her story seems to change and grow worse with each interview.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Professor
Shi-eun Yu</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, who
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>worked as a counselor</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
at the South Korean processing center </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>for
North Korean refugees</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
Hanawon, for two years in the early 2000s, and </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Professor
Kim Hyun-ah </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">who
worked there for five years in the mid 2000s </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">both
told us they had never heard of anyone being stripped naked in a
detention center in Mongolia.</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">According
to Yu, “In the past, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>the
South Korean government has sent counselors over to Mongolia to help
North Korean defectors in detention</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">…
so how can defectors be stripped naked everyday? It would cause them
more psychological distress. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">It’s
not possible</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,”</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
she said. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kim
said that compared to other countries like Thailand and Russia,
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mongolia
is very supportive towards North Korean defectors and that it’s
highly unlikely that defectors would have been subjected to months of
stripping.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Comment:</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
Yeonmi’s story is not only wildly inconsistent, it also grows more
horrific over time. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">New
tales of sexual abuse are added as she becomes more famous</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Suddenly,
(in version 2) her mother was raped. </span></b></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
this article, </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
was forced to strip naked every day for months.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
Not surprisingly, her claim was rejected by experts with direct
knowledge of defectors and the</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">ir</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
treatment in Mongolian detention centers.</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q9</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT WAS THE FAMILY’S PLAN AFTER YEONMI’S SISTER SUDDENLY FLED
ACROSS THE BORDER INTO CHINA?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But
before the family could put its plan into action, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Eunmi,
Yeonmi’s 16-year-old sister, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">fled
across the border with a friend without telling them. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Terrified
about how she might fare on her own, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her mother decided to follow her over the border and </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">bring
her home. Once reunited, the family would attempt a second escape
altogether.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
It is extremely dangerous and risky for a North Korean to cross the
border with China.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> So
Yeonmi and her mom supposedly decided to risk slipping into China
without her father to </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">find
the sister (Eunmi) in China</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
then they were going to </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">sneak
Eunmi back across the border to North Korea, and then the whole
family was going to attempt to secretly cross the border again?</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The
whole family was already committed to escaping before Eunmi abruptly
fled by herself. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Wouldn’t
the father just go with Yeonmi and her mom into China to look for the
missing sister (Eunmi)? That would only require the family to cross
the border once, together.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">That
was Yeonmi’s original story:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
“I crossed the border with my mother and father together,” before
she started telling version 2 of her escape story (“my father
wasn’t with us so my mother was raped”). Her original story of
the three family members crossing together makes much more sense, as
the risk of capture or separation would be greatly reduced.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">According
to version 2, there were </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">three</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
planned border crossings -- greatly increasing the family’s chances
of being separated or captured by the authorities. It doesn’t make
a whole lot of sense.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q10</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER YEONMI AND HER FAMILY ESCAPED NORTH KOREA AND
ARRIVED IN CHINA?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEmDpkz0g4"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEmDpkz0g4</span></a></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
N. Korean TV Star Standing Up To Kim Jong-Un (mini-documentary about
Yeonmi, featuring interviews with Yeonmi and her mother)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(4:13)
At just 16, Eun-mi fled the country with a friend. Her family was
devastated.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Desperate
to find her sister, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeon-mi
and her parents walked across the mountains to the border, where they
bribed guards to cross the Tumen River to China.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>
</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But
there was no sign of Eun-mi.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4:35
(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi)
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">“</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">We
called North Korea after we escaped. And they were saying the people
were trying to rape her (Yeonmi’s sister). And she didn’t say yes
to them so they killed her.”</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
So Yeonmi and her parents (she doesn’t mention the rape story in
this interview) went to China to find her sister, Eunmi, who already
fled across the border into China four days earlier. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
China, Yeonmi’s family called back into North Korea (where they had
just come from), to ask people where her sister was</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
… and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">they
were told that Eunmi was killed by some people because she rejected
their attempts to rape her</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(End
of Part I)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Request:
I hope Ms. Park will respond to at least some of these questions. I
would ask her to respond to them in the order they are posed on this
document. I urge her not to sidestep any of these issues or mislead
people with vague or dishonest responses.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>PART
II: YEONMI AND HER PROMOTER, CASEY LARTIGUE JR., RESPOND TO THE
DIPLOMAT.COM ARTICLE. I RESPOND TO THEM WITH FURTHER QUESTIONS.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q11:</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">WHY
DIDN’T PARK OR LARTIGUE RESPOND TO JOLLEY’S CRITICISM OF YEONMI’S
VASTLY DIFFERENT ESCAPE STORIES</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
(QUESTION 1 ABOVE)? WHY DIDN’T THEY RESPOND TO QUESTION 3, OR OTHER
SERIOUS INCONSISTENCIES POINTED OUT BY JOLLEY?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q12:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
DID YEONMI WITNESS OR EXPERIENCE STARVATION/EATING GRASS TO SURVIVE
IN NORTH KOREA?</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
(question 2 above in Part I)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rushing
to judgment on a defector (Casey Lartigue’s response to Yeonmi’s
criticism in the Diplomat.com article)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By
Casey Lartigue, Jr</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
Jolley gets things half-right, she concludes the worst about Park.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">She
cites an exchange during our podcast</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"North
Korea Today, featuring Casey and Yeonmi." We had been invited to
do a special live podcast in front of an audience at an exhibition
about North Korean street children. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park
wanted to avoid overshadowing the street children feature with her
own story.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Jolley
twists this to even question if Park had ever eaten grass or
dragonflies because she didn't mention it then.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
We did a separate podcast in which Park talked in detail about eating
dragonflies, wild boar, grasshoppers, and sparrows when she was in
North Korea.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Comment</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
This is a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>totally
misleading and disingenuous response</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Lartigue
misdirects and misleads the reader by commenting about the podcast,
when he clearly knows that’s not the point.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Refer
to question two above. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mary
Ann Jolley pointed out that on a South Korean talk show in </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">early
2013 (long before Yeonmi became famous or made any podcasts with
Lartigue), Yeonmi said: “I never saw anyone eating grass or bugs to
survive in North Korea. I think other defectors who claim this are
lying.”</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Later,
Yeonmi’s story drastically changed, and Yeonmi claimed that she
even ate grass and bugs to survive. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mr.
Lartigue, why don’t you respond directly to this massive
contradiction in Yeonmi’s story?</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q13</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
DID YEONMI REALLY SEE HER BEST FRIEND’S MOM PUBLICLY EXECUTED IN
2002? (question 4 above)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UPDATE:
A Response from Yeonmi Park </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(December
2014, Yeonmi’s response to her criticism in the Diplomat article)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
never said that I saw executions in Hyesan.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to
name it). </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Question
13A</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(Check quotes below)</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Yeonmi said she grew up in Hyesan and then Pyongyang. Then, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
moved back to Hyesan (not some small city in central North Korea)
after her father’s arrest.</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>She
also said </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">it
was her </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">classmate’s/best
friend’s mother who was publicly executed, and her whole school had
to attend the execution.</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">So
how can we believe that Yeonmi’s school and classmate/best friend
were located in some small city in central North Korea? According to
her quote below, she had moved back to Hyesan, and she has never
mentioned this small city in central North Korea until now. </span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:26
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">In
2004</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
my whole world came crashing down. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">My
father, my hero was arrested</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
for his illegal trading business…</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">And
because of that, I could not live in Pyongyang anymore, so I had to
go back to Hyesan.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Comment:
So she was indeed back in Hyesan, not some small city in central
North Korea.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note:
(In other versions of this story, Yeonmi said her father was arrested
in 2002, when she was 9.) The question is where she was before and
after his arrest. Based on her quote above, before the arrest, she
was living in Pyongyang. After the arrest, she moved back to Hyesan. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/north-korea-defector-titanic</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
she was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>nine</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
years old, Park was forced to attend the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">execution
of her classmate’s mother</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
Her crime? She had lent a </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>South
Korean movie</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
to a friend.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The
townsfolk were gathered </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>in
a large stadium</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
to watch the punishment. </span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She
got killed in front of us,” said Park, now 20 years-old. “I was
standing next to her daughter - </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">my
whole school had to go.”</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/why-is-the-world-allowing-a-holocaust-to-happen-again-brave-north-korean-shares-harrowing-story-of-escape-30673558.html</a>
</span><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(article
based on an interview with Yeonmi) </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>she was nine</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
she was forced to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>watch
her </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">best
friend's mother</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
being </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">executed
on the street</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
before her eyes.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Her
school and best friend would be in Pyongyang or Hyesan, where Yeonmi
lived, not some small city in central North Korea.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">QUESTION
13B</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>: (Check
quotes below) </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">How
could Yeonmi suddenly arrive at a small city in central North Korea?
(This is the first time she has ever mentioned it).</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">After the father’s
arrest in 2002</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,
Yeonmi’s mother said she was interrogated “at home in Hyesan,”
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">meaning they still
lived in Hyesan</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>,</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>not some small city in
central North Korea.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Also,
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
said her mother was arrested for going to her hometown</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">because
North Korea has “no freedom of movement.” So</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
how did Yeonmi suddenly arrive in this small city in central North
Korea to witness a public execution</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(of her best friend’s
mother, where Yeonmi’s whole school had to attend)? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Park’s
mother told us prosecutors interrogated her on and off for about a
year – sometimes at home in Hyesan</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>
</u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">and sometimes
elsewhere, because she had worked in her husband’s trading
business. But, in a recent BBC radio <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">interview</a>,
Park claimed her mother was imprisoned for six months because she
went to live back in her hometown after her husband was jailed and
“because in North Korea there is no freedom of movement, not
freedom of speech…</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
it was against the law for the movement and that’s why she went to
prison for half a year.”</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">QUESTION
13C</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>: (Check
below for quotes) </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
first lived in Hyesan until about age 5, and then started moving back
and forth between Hyesan and Pyongyang (starting at age 5),</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
when her father moved to Pyongyang in 1998.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
also said she saw public executions from ages 1-4.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
Can we believe this claim? And if so, where did she see them? </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">They
would’ve been in Hyesan,</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
where she was living before age 5, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">but
she now claims she never saw executions in Hyesan.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UPDATE:
A Response from Yeonmi Park (December 2014, Yeonmi’s response to
her criticism in the Diplomat article)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>I
never said that I saw executions in Hyesan.</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(Yeonmi’s interview with BBC Radio: October 16, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1:50)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I saw public
executions since I was age 1, 2, 3, 4.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q14:</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
WHAT WERE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HER FATHER’S BURIAL? (QUESTION 5
ABOVE)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rushing
to judgment on a defector (Casey Lartigue’s response to Yeonmi’s
criticism in the Diplomat.com article)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By
Casey Lartigue, Jr</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jolley
even questions details about the burial of Park's father, but I know
the story better than she does.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Out
of money, options and hope, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>with
her father dying of cancer in China</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park
and her mother agreed to be sold to a Chinese farmer</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park
has mentioned such stories in speeches and interviews</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and sought to raise awareness without "sensationalizing"
being sold in China.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The
farmer) also agreed to dispose of the body of Park's father upon his
death. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Now
they were sold to a Chinese farmer? Another version of the</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
story.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This
is the first we are hearing about this.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
cannot find any speeches or interviews where Yeonmi mentioned her or
mother being sold to a Chinese farmer.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This
seems to be another lie heaped onto the rest. </b></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Read
Yeonmi’s various accounts of her father’s burial in Part I above</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
She either buried him alone, with locals, or cremated him first and
then buried the ashes with her mother. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">None
of the various versions include a farmer who purchased Yeonmi and her
mother, and agreed to bury the body. </span></b></u></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">*
And even if that were true, it doesn’t negate her inconsistent
accounts of the actual burial.</span></b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q15:
</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">WHAT
SHOULD WE BELIEVE ABOUT THE YEONMI PARK FOUNDATION? SHE HAD A WEBSITE
WITH A PAYPAL DONATE BUTTON, EVEN THOUGH </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">SHE
DIDN’T INDICATE HOW THE MONEY WOULD BE USED</span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">AND
THEN, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">ONLY
AFTER THE DIPLOMAT ARTICLE CAME OUT, SHE APOLOGIZED FOR THE
“ACCIDENTAL WEBSITE.” …</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
“IT WAS </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">JUST
A ‘DUMMY SITE BUILT BY A FRIEND’ THAT COULDN’T REALLY ACCEPT
MONEY.”</span></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
Park</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> is backed by the
American Libertarian non-profit organization, <a href="http://www.atlasnetwork.org/news/article/north-koreas-black-market-generation">Atlas
Foundation</a>. She’s one of its <a href="http://youngvoicesadvocates.com/advocate/yeonmi-park-2/">Young
Voices</a> and </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">has
recently started her own <a href="http://www.yeonmi.org/projects/">foundation</a>
based in New York – you can donate online through PayPal</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">but
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">what
exactly your money will be used for is not clear</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
What is clear though, is that “Yeonmi is travelling and speaking in
2014” and “is available for international speeches.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UPDATE:
A Response from Yeonmi Park (December 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But
one very important thing to correct: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
do not have a foundation. The website was a </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">dummy
site built by a friend, and it was not supposed to be live</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
There was </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">no
way it could accept money, and I haven’t taken any</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
I am so </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">sorry
for the confusion. The site has been taken down.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Question:
Since Yeonmi has not commented publicly on how exactly she intends to
help North Koreans in her own charitable endeavor, why was there even
a website (or “dummy site”) with a donate button to begin with?</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
And does anyone honestly believe this claim about the dummy site?
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>After
Yeonmi became famous, there was suddenly a Yeonmi Park foundation
website with a PayPal donate button even though she never stated how
the money would be used or exactly what she would do to help North
Koreans.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I
visited the website before it was taken down and I saw the PayPal
donate button. It did not seem like a dummy site to me. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>PART
III: ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>*
Request to Yeonmi: I hope you do not even respond to Part III unless
you have already responded separately to Part I and Part II
questions. I only added Part III as further reference for others. I
do not want it to distract from the much more important questions in
Parts I and II. </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q16:</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
DID YEONMI AND HER MOTHER REALLY WEAR THEIR MONGOLIAN PRISON UNIFORMS
ONTO THE PLANE TO SEOUL?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-gGvLWOZI</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">James
Chau introducing Yeonmi at the One Young World Summit in Dublin </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:40
(In Mongolia, you and your mother) were put into prison for 3
months…and through that, eventually, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">you
found yourselves </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">wearing
prison clothes coming off a plane in South Korea.</span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11138496/Escape-from-North-Korea-How-I-escaped-horrors-of-life-under-Kim-Jong-il.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Yeonmi
and her mother</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> were
taken into custody and after 15 days were </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>transferred
to a detention centre in Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Several weeks </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">later
they were handed over to South Korean officials</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and on April 1 2009…Yeonmi stood at Ulan Bator’s Chinggis Khaan
airport preparing to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>board
a plane for Seoul</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A
few hours later the plane touched down at Incheon airport in Seoul.
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
stepped off the passenger jet wearing a shabby prison uniform.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:
So the </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">detention
center</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
in Mongolia </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">did
not give Yeonmi or her mom their original clothes back, and instead
released them while they were wearing their prison uniforms?</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>And
after Yeonmi and her mom were </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">released
into the custody of South Korean officials in Mongolia,</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">those
South Korean officials saw Yeonmi and her mom wearing prison
uniforms, but the officials did not even give them some cheap clothes
to change into?</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The
South Korean officials actually put Yeonmi and her mom on a plane to
South Korea in prison uniforms?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kim
said that compared to other countries like Thailand and Russia,
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Mongolia
is very supportive towards North Korean defectors…</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:
Remember that Yeonmi also claimed to be forced to strip naked every
day for months while in the detention center in Mongolia, which two
South Korean experts rejected. <span style="background: #ffff00;">She
keeps add</span><span style="background: #ffff00;">ing these details
to make an epic story (“forced to strip naked every day for months,
then walked off the plane in South Korea still wearing her prison
uniform). But if you actually just take a step back and think about
what she's saying, in many instances, it's totally ridiculous.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q17</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHERE DID YEONMI SEE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(embedded video interview with Yeonmi)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5:15
(Public executions) are like big celebrations for North Koreans,
because we are killing our betrayers and criminals. So they are taken
to the big stadium. And we are going there to do the celebrate
things. And </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
the big stadium or in</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
markets,</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
where lots of people are coming, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">they
are doing it (public executions).</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Question:
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Does
North Korea really execute people in public markets?</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
I don’t doubt that North Korea executes people publicly. But I
doubt they do it in the markets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q18</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WAS YEONMI FORCED TO SELL GOODS IN THE MARKET AT AGE 6 OR 7 TO
SURVIVE THE 1995-2000 FAMINE? (SHE SAID HER FAMILY WAS RELATIVELY
WELL-OFF UNTIL 2002).</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-28/north-korea-black-markets/5629736"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-28/north-korea-black-markets/5629736</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inside
the black market of the world's most repressive regime</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She
says </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">during
the devastating famines of the 1990s </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
was forced to barter and trade</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Her parents encouraged her to do so.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Making
a profit, </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">no matter
how small,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">was
the only way to survive</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"I
wanted to make money by myself so </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>I
just bribed the old charter guard</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
... and I brought some food from the orchard. And I sold it,"
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">she said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"So
that means, I knew I had to make money and had to make a profit."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Note:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Yeonmi was </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>born in
1993</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, so </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
was at most six or seven years old</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
during the famine.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">So this six or seven
year old girl was supposedly bribing guards and </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>selling
goods in the market to survive, even though her mom said</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
in question two above: </span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Others
couldn’t afford to eat white rice.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">But
Yeonmi only ate white rice</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Her
father did his best to give his kids a better life</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
so…</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
kids didn’t know the truth about what was going on in North Korea.”</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Comment:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Yeonmi’s </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>story</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
about bribing and selling during the famine </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">seems
contrived</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. It
fits well with her speeches about the “black market generation,”
which is of course important for her and other defectors to talk
about. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But Yeonmi and
her mom both stated that the father gave them a good life until his
arrest in 2002 (years after the famine).</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>So
the story of six or seven year old Yeonmi being forced to bribe
guards and sell things in the market to survive the famine just
doesn’t seem believable</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And
in the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>next quote
(below),</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>she
claims it wasn’t until about age 10 (2003),</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
after the famine, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>that
she first started selling things in the market.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102146454"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.cnbc.com/id/102146454#</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How
millennials are shaking North Korea’s regime</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">When
she was</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">about
10, she first dabbled in capitalism</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>by </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">bribing</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">
orchard guards</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
alcohol</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> to
give her a bucket of persimmons, which she then sold in the markets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q19:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
COULD YEONMI REALLY SMELL COOKING FROM CHINA ACROSS THE RIVER IN
HYESAN?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDXkdjx7VAE</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">0:18
(In Hyesan) Occasionally </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
could even smell very like fatty oily delicious noodles cooking from
China</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(After
being asked by the BBC Radio host about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>her
family’s decision to escape)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:15
(Yeonmi) I could see the lights from China and sometimes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I
could smell the delicious </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">smell
of cooking from China.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">So
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">we
just thought, if we go there, we can live like them, so that was the
very simple reason.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:
Look at a map of the North Korea-China border near Hyesan. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>A
river divides the two countries,</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and you have to walk for a little while from the riverbank to the
nearest home or restaurant in China. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Could
Yeonmi have honestly smelled noodles cooking from that far away? </span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">Think
about you</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: transparent;">r
own neighborhood, and think about how far away you have ever smelled
something else cooking. Then look at the map of the China-North
Korean border near Hyesan. I'd really like to know if other defectors
from Hyesan could ever smell noodles (or anything) cooking from
across the border in China. I know it's a minor point, but a bizarre
lie if it's not possible to smell food across the border.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q20</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WAS YEONMI’S FAMILY INITIALLY RICH OR MIDDLE CLASS?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
1: THEY WERE RICH</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knx1hkwPLys"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knx1hkwPLys</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">South
Korean Talk Show “Now On My Way to Meet You,” featuring North
Korean defectors telling stories about their lives</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi:
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>My mom wore
fashionable clothes and </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">imported
luxurious clothes from Japan</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">.
My mom even had a </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Chanel
bag.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.tvreport.co.kr/?c=news&m=newsview&idx=225238"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.tvreport.co.kr/?c=news&m=newsview&idx=225238</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">헉</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">!
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">마취도 없이
쌍꺼풀 수술을</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">?
(</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">기사입력
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2012-05-11
15:12:31)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(A
Korean article quoting Yeonmi’s statement on the South Korean talk
show): “</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">When
I was nine years old</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">,
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
went to get plastic surgery</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>…”</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">VERSION
2: THEY WERE MIDDLE CLASS</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbwfOA2WpY"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbwfOA2WpY</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd
</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">North Korean Food
[North Korea Today] #3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3:52
(Casey Lartigue) But </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">you
were middle class</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
so </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">you
probably had a better experience than most people.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3:55
(Yeonmi) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">That’s
why</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> I
tasted the meat. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some
people don’t know the taste of meat though. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>So
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
tasted the cow meat once in my lifetime.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">And I couldn’t even
chew it. It was so hard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:00
(Casey Lartigue) Some people don’t know </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>about
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">the
tough life you had…in Hyesan</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:09
(Yeonmi) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
couldn’t go to school because we couldn’t afford it. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">So
I stayed at home and helped my mom</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">…(</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">we
could) only eat two meals in a day</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">….</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
But compared to other “kkotjebis” (child beggars) it was nothing</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
They were literally scraping on the streets…they are just eating
everything…it’s really just heartbreaking to see them.</span></span></div>
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Yeonmi and her mom both acknowledge that the father gave their family
a relatively good life until his arrest in 2002. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>After
Yeonmi’s father went to prison, there are several different
versions of what happened:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a.
The mother also went to prison, so </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
went to live with her aunt</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
and the sister lived separately with an uncle. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">b.
Yeonmi stayed home and helped her mom.</span></b></span></span></div>
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The mother also went to prison, so </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi
and her sister lived alone and ate grass/bugs on the mountain to
survive.</span></b></span></span></div>
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COULD YEONMI AFFORD TO GO TO SCHOOL IN NORTH KOREA?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1TmfUHR4Q"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1TmfUHR4Q</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:00
(Casey Lartigue) Some people don’t know about the tough life you
had…in Hyesan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:09
(Yeonmi) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">I
couldn’t go to school because we couldn’t afford it.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
So I stayed at home and helped my mom</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">…(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>we
could) only eat two meals in a day</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2+2
= Kill Americans </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[North
Korea Today(feat.Casey & Yeonmi)]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Note:
Yeonmi discusses what she learned in school in North Korea during the
entire episode, never mentioning that she couldn’t afford school.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11:16
(Yeonmi discussing the North Korean propaganda she learned about
South Korea when she was growing up) South Korean kids (cannot pay)
the school tuition fee so they cannot go to school. So they were
kicked out of school and went to the street to sell newspapers and
clean shoes, and they couldn’t study. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">11:32
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">N</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">orth
Korean kids have a free education system so everybody was happy there
because they could go to school</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
So I thought, “Oh my God they are so miserable…I felt so bad. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">So
that’s why we thought we were the best country in the world.”</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Wouldn’t
Yeonmi at least mention that she couldn’t afford to go to school?
If that were really true, </span></b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>we
would expect her to say something like “I learned the North Korean
propaganda that we have a free education system and are the best in
the world, but since I couldn’t afford to go to school, I
discovered the propaganda about the free education system was false.”
But she never said anything like that. </b></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;"><b>Q22:</b>
DID YEONMI’S FAMILY CROSS MOUNTAINS TO GET INTO CHINA?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;"><b>Request</b>:
I see that way <b>too many people are debating this issue</b>. The
<b>crossing three mountains doesn't make sense, but</b> <b>let's
focus on Par</b><b>t I. </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is
just for reference.</span></span></span></span></div>
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In </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">initial
escape story, she crossed the border with both parents and never
mentioned climbing any mountains</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>In
the second escape story</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
Yeonmi started claiming that </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">she
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">had
to climb three mountains</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
to reach China. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">However,
she was living in</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">a
city on the border (Hyesan), where there are no mountains to cross in
order to reach China.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Journalist Mary Ann Jolley questioned Yeonmi’s claim of climbing
three mountains to reach China. This is Yeonmi’s response, and my
follow-up question for Yeonmi.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">UPDATE:
A Response from Yeonmi Park (December 2014, Yeonmi’s response to
her criticism in the Diplomat article)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>And
there are </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">mountains</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
you can even see on Google Earth – maybe you call them big hills in
English – </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">outside
of Hyesan that we crossed to escape.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
Am a North Korean Millennial - Yeonmi Park (July 10, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2:26
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>In 2004</u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
my whole world came crashing down. My </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>father,
my hero was arrested</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
for his illegal trading business…</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">And
because of that, I could not live in Pyongyang anymore, so I had to
go back to Hyesan.</span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:05
(BBC Radio host) He decided it was time for the family to escape from
North Korea. (After your father was released from prison)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6:10
(Yeonmi) Yes, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">we
all reunited in 2006 and moved back to Hyesan</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Question:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
After Yeonmi’s father went to prison, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">her
family moved back to Hyesan</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
The city of Hyesan continues to be a major defection point because
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>the city is right on
the border of China -- </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">with
only a river (and </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">no
mountains) to cross.</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s
sister abruptly fled</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
across the border to China. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The
</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">most
common/logical route</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
that she would’ve taken </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>into
China</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (as so many
other defectors have) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">is
through the city and across the river.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Yeonmi’s
family wanted to find her sister</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
who just crossed the border into China. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">So
why would Yeonmi’s family go outside of Hyesan to cross the border
by traveling over three mountains and a river?</span></b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q23</span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">:
WHAT IS YEONMI’S EARLIEST MEMORY?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-young-world/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-one-young-worlds-dramatic-curtainraiser-30674883.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(0:23)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>My earliest memory</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
was when I was really little </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>my
mother</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> told me not to
even whisper. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I was
like 4 years old when she said, the birds and mice can hear you, so
you should never ever express your feelings.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0288zd0</a>
(Yeonmi’s interview with BBC Radio: October 16, 2014)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1:50)
I saw </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>public
executions since I was age 1, 2, 3, 4.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Q24:</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">
DOES CASEY LARTIGUE DESERVE PRAISE FOR NOT MENTIONING YEONMI’S
(CONTRIVED) RAPE STORY, BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE GAINED FAME AND
FORTUNE?</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_170000.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rushing
to judgment on a defector (Casey Lartigue’s response to Yeonmi’s
criticism in the Diplomat.com article)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By
Casey Lartigue, Jr</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Park's
critics have even come after me. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>More
than a month before the world learned it, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Park
told me in a recorded interview about her mother being raped in
China. </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Despite
the opportunity for fame and fortune, I didn't take the opportunities
to reveal her sensitive information.</span></b></u></span></span></span></div>
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What a bizarre and inappropriate comment.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Yeonmi told Lartigue about the rape story (which she clearly invented
anyway) and he deserves our praise because: “Despite the
opportunity for fame and fortune, I didn't take the opportunities to
reveal her sensitive information.” </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This
is simply stunning. </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Read
more about Mr. Lartigue in the conclusion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: #ffff00;">PART
IV: CONCLUSION</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
made this document because I care about truth, human rights and North
Korean defectors. I want defectors to be fully supported and prosper
without misleading people. After Mary Ann Jolley’s original article
at the Diplomat.com, it became obvious that Yeonmi has not been
honest, but I noticed that many people are still strongly supporting
Yeonmi and criticizing Jolley. A professor in Australia called Leonid
Petrov even tweeted that Jolley’s article was “disgusting and
mean.” Are these people even reading her article? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
sympathize with North Korean defectors and I know Yeonmi is
relatively young. But she’s old enough to know the difference
between right and wrong. And defectors should not be above legitimate
questions and criticisms if it appears they are not being honest.
Journalists and media organizations were willing to frequently repeat
Yeonmi's story without question, even when it clearly contradicted
what she told other journalists. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">So
when Mary Ann Jolley pointed out obvious contradictions in Yeonmi's
story, no other journalists were willing to do some investigating and
write a follow-up article? Tons of articles repeated (and continue to
repeat) whatever Yeonmi says, but only one critical article comes
out, despite the documented contradictions that Jolley brought to our
attention? Doesn't the public deserve to know what's going on?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some
people will undoubtedly still support Yeonmi despite all the evidence
against her. These people should ask themselves why. Yeonmi’s
high-profile fabrications are seriously harming North Korean
defectors because people might not believe them after such a huge
international embarrassment. The North Korea propaganda department
and some North Korea supporters will probably seize upon Yeonmi’s
lies to repeat their own false claims that all North Korean defectors
are liars. Many defectors’ stories are surely true, but will people
care to listen anymore? I hope so. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
other reason I made this document was the suspicious Yeonmi Park
Foundation website. Mary Ann Jolley pointed out that the website had
a PayPal donate button, but there was no mention of how the money
would be used. I was concerned that honest people who want to help
defectors might be sending their money into the wrong hands, so I
started to look more closely at Yeonmi’s story. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What
I found was absolutely stunning and outrageous, so I started
gathering it on one document, which is now more than 20 pages long. I
was relieved when Yeonmi responded to the Diplomat article by taking
her foundation website down. Her explanation (“it was a dummy site
made by a friend that accidentally went live and couldn’t really
receive donations”) is obviously very dubious. Someone should
double-check that claim.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s
also quite a coincidence that Yeonmi and the people around her didn’t
notice that this “dummy website” had “accidentally gone live”
until after Mary Ann Jolley published her critique. We should be
thanking Jolley for having the courage to publish her article and
helping to ensure that donations to defectors go through reputable
charities, with oversight and clear guidelines for how they will use
the money.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">CASEY
LARTIGUE</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
should also mention a few things I came across regarding Casey
Lartigue Jr. Mr. Lartigue seems to be quite a character, and
apparently loves the attention he receives when he’s with
defectors. For example, Lartigue and a defector named Ju Chan-yang
went to a conference in India. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">In
a South Korean newspaper called the Korea Times, </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://nayacasey.com/2014/01/14/ju-chan-yang-what-a-mighty-woman-korea-times-january-14-2014/">Lartigue
writes about</a> his experience. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lartigue
was “</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">rapping to
my revised version of Salt N Pepa’s 1990s song “Whattaman,” on
the same stage that defector </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ju
Chan-yang told her story, when there “</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">wasn’t
a dry eye in the audience.” Quite an odd juxtaposition, to say the
least.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lartigue
also serves up another rap performance on the “Casey Lartigue Show
with Yeonmi Park,” a podcast focusing on Ms. Park’s experiences
(however real) in North Korea, wherein Mr. Lartigue adds nothing of
substantive value to the discussion. I think Mr. Lartigue wrote the
name of the show backwards. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Honest)
North Korean defectors deserve to be center stage, but Lartigue wants
all eyes on him. <a href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/12/626_168363.html">In
another Korea Times article</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>,
Lartigue</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>writes
a letter to himself, praising himself for his work with defectors.
(</b></u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">You can’t make
this stuff up). </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One
of the many reasons he heaps praise on himself is that he supposedly
rejected a “dream job” that would’ve paid him triple the amount
he’s earning now, so he can stay in South Korea and work with
defectors. He begins the article (written to himself), “Dearest
Casey,” and writes things like: </span></span></span>
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“<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When
you say that you are engaged in NK activism because you want to do
it, you mean that. It is out of joy. You have turned down other great
job opportunities. When people ask why you are doing it, why do you
spend so much time helping North Korean refugees, you usually answer,
"Because it should be done.” I can’t believe any editor
could read something like this and actually decide to print it. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>FINAL
COMMENTS</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s
infuriating that Casey Lartigue and Yeonmi Park have warped the North
Korean human rights movement into their own little show, where lies
and self-aggrandizement prevail. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi
deserves the most criticism, followed by Lartigue, but there are
others who also deserve blame too. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yeonmi’s
mother must know what’s going on. South Korean newspapers are
definitely covering the Yeonmi Park story. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
also wonder how Liberty in North Korea (LINK) didn’t speak up or
put an end to Yeonmi’s fabrications. Yeonmi is one of LINK’s
leading fundraisers, and they actively promote her, but nobody at
LINK noticed anything wrong with Yeonmi’s story?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One
incorrect conclusion that some commenters have made is that Yeonmi
must be innocent and coached to lie by people like Lartigue.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Remember,
Yeonmi started lying at least as far back as January 2013, when she
claimed she never saw anyone in North Korea starving or eating grass.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">That
was long before she started working with Lartigue. But Lartigue not
only promoted Yeonmi and benefited from her while she was lying, he
is now trying to mislead people despite the damning evidence gathered
by Jolley.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This
whole Yeonmi Park saga has been ugly and disheartening, but it’s
only going to get worse if we don’t spread the truth. When the
world realizes what happened, people are going to be angry. But the
time to deal with this is now, before the lies grow any bigger or
spread any further. I can only hope that other defectors are not
unfairly harmed by Yeonmi Park’s brazen attempt to fool the world.</span></span></div>
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