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Questions About If Teonmi Park's (the girl who escaped North Korea) Story Is True
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:44 pm
This is a tweet from the comedian Tim Dillon.
Twitter
In his tweet he tweets an article from The Diplomat, which I don't know if its credible or not.
The Diplomat
What a world we live in huh? If she is full of shite, I admit she fooled me. I figured that since she was on Joe Rogan, that he did a good job screening her before bringing her on and several of her stories were consistent with a book I read "Nothing to Envy".
Maybe she read the book as well and created her own stories from the book. I listened to most of the podcast, but I don't think I listened to the last 30 or so minutes.
In his tweet he tweets an article from The Diplomat, which I don't know if its credible or not.
quote:
When 21-year-old North Korean defector, Yeonmi Park, made her debut on the world stage in October this year with harrowing tales of life under the repressive North Korean regime and her perilous escape to freedom, she left audiences, human rights heavyweights, and journalists in tears – some literally sobbing.
Wearing a pink, traditional Korean dress with its high waist and voluminous skirt, Park stood before the lectern at the One Young World Summit in Dublin and in between long pauses, wiping tears from her eyes and holding her hand to her mouth as she composed herself, she told of being brainwashed; of seeing executions; of starving; of the slither of light in her darkness when she watched the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic, and had her mind opened to the outside world where love was possible; of having to watch her mother being raped; of burying her father on her own at just 14; and of threatening to kill herself rather than allow Mongolian soldiers to send her back to North Korea. She talked about following the stars to freedom and then ended with her signature sign off, “When I was crossing the Gobi desert, scared of dying, I thought nobody cares, but you have listened to my story. You have cared.”
You’d have to have been inhuman not to be moved. But – and you’re going to hear a lot of “buts” – was the story she told of her life in North Korea accurate? The more speeches and interviews I read, watch and hear Park give, the more I become aware of serious inconsistencies in her story that suggest it wasn’t. Whether this matters is up to the reader to decide, but my concern is if someone with such a high profile twists their story to fit the narrative we have come to expect from North Korean defectors, our perspective of the country could become dangerously skewed. We need to have a full and truthful picture of life in North Korea if we are to help those living under its abysmally cruel regime and those who try to flee.
The Diplomat
What a world we live in huh? If she is full of shite, I admit she fooled me. I figured that since she was on Joe Rogan, that he did a good job screening her before bringing her on and several of her stories were consistent with a book I read "Nothing to Envy".
Maybe she read the book as well and created her own stories from the book. I listened to most of the podcast, but I don't think I listened to the last 30 or so minutes.
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Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:45 pm to OweO
I found her account somewhat fantastical
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:47 pm to OweO
boobies
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:48 pm to OweO
Assuming nationalities now too are we?
How dare you.
How dare you.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:49 pm to OweO
So what are you?
Chinese or Japanese?
Chinese or Japanese?
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:49 pm to OweO
I'm sure she exaggerated a few things...but that country is fricked beyond reason
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:49 pm to OweO
She has no idea what real struggle is. She has never had to present an ID to vote.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:50 pm to OweO
that limelight surely did pay for a lot of plastic surgery
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:51 pm to OweO
quote:
Whether this matters is up to the reader to decide, but my concern is if someone with such a high profile twists their story to fit the narrative we have come to expect from North Korean defectors, our perspective of the country could become dangerously skewed. We need to have a full and truthful picture of life in North Korea if we are to help those living under its abysmally cruel regime and those who try to flee.
Look libtard, we know North Korea is fricked up, who doesn't? Does it really matter that much if this chick's story isn't entirely true?
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:52 pm to OweO
I wish your posting privileges would be exiled to North Korea.
This post was edited on 8/10/21 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:52 pm to OweO
Obviously North Korea is an authoritarian state. However, this lady sounds like someone trying to tell people what they want to hear. And she has big financial incentives for doing so. I would take what she says with more than a few grains of salt.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:53 pm to SouthboundTiger
I'm one to believe North Korea is basically hell in a lot of ways, but I found her stories very unbelievable. That may be my inability to relate to them, but it seemed like she was speaking to a fictional world
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:54 pm to Bluefin
quote:
She has no idea what real struggle is. She has never had to present an ID to vote.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:54 pm to ManBearTiger
In the book Nothing to Envy, they mention how people use an outhouse that has to be locked because they have to give it to the government for fertilizer and that they lock it because people will try to steal it, but she said that everyone had to give 1 ton a year or they will be punished. I thought 1 ton of shite a year would be a large amount from people who don't eat too much.
And then when she talked about how she had to become a Christian in order to find out how to get to South Korea and once they got that information they had to travel by foot in -40 (she didn't say whether that was C or F, either way that's cold) weather and that all her mom had on was someone's shoes that were too big for her. I questioned it, but if its all fake, she sold the piss out of that story. She was crying.
And then when she talked about how she had to become a Christian in order to find out how to get to South Korea and once they got that information they had to travel by foot in -40 (she didn't say whether that was C or F, either way that's cold) weather and that all her mom had on was someone's shoes that were too big for her. I questioned it, but if its all fake, she sold the piss out of that story. She was crying.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:54 pm to OweO
It's entirely possible that North Korea sucks so much arse that we can't even comprehend how much arse it sucks
Therefore, some western brains (of commies) think it's nonsense
Therefore, some western brains (of commies) think it's nonsense
This post was edited on 8/10/21 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:56 pm to SouthboundTiger
quote:
Look libtard, we know North Korea is fricked up, who doesn't? Does it really matter that much if this chick's story isn't entirely true?
This is directed at the author of the article right?
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:57 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:
I wish your posting privileges would be exiled to North Korea.
I wish you would just ignore my post instead of coming in my threads bitching about it.
Its like you think someone cares what the frick you think.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:57 pm to OweO
i've always assumed she exaggerated some things to spice up her story
Posted on 8/10/21 at 2:59 pm to JetsetNuggs
I'd bang her like the snooze button on Monday morning.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 3:00 pm to OweO
The left in this country would have you believe Lebron James and Simone Biles face extreme prejudice in America, and will simultaneously claim North Korean defectors could be lying and therefore their entire story is skewed beyond belief.
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