Yeonmi Park, a 27-year-old who escaped from sex slavery in China after fleeing North Korea, is warning in a series of media appearances about how elements of American society are becoming eerily similar to the way things were in autocratic North Korea.
Park told Fox News that the North Koreans largely do not know that they are being oppressed and they do not know about things like the internet.
“My people in North Korea right now that they do not know they are slaves to a dictator,” she said. “Now I came to America, people were talking about animals’ rights and they were talking about their like, their oppression, system of oppression and I was telling them, you know that if you’re, you know, you’re oppressed, that means you are not oppressed. You know, ‘not knowing’ is a true definition of oppression. So it was so bizarre, why they are voluntarily trying to give their individual liberty away so they can be slaves again?”
“And what, why they have so much information, what happened in the history?” she continued. “Where are we ending if we go through this path they know so well? However, people voluntarily choosing this path without a gun into their head, right? But for North Koreans we have to do it to survive, but I don’t get it why Americans, a lot of Americans, are choosing this path without any external force.”
Park says that she fled North Korea for food because she was starving and that she was sold into sex slavery in China for $300.
“After being a modern day slavery, and this is a lot of [what] breaks my heart, so many people in America, in the West, talking about slavery, but they do not want to fight [against] the slavery that is happening to the current modern people,” she said. “And that is a thing like people here haven’t gone through actual real hardship. They keep talking about this standard oppression and I’m like, you don’t know how oppression looks like.”
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This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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