Yeonmi Park
North Korean defector and human rights activist
Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.[2] Her family turned to black-market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s.[3] Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling.[4] They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and she was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia.[5] She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.
Yeonmi Park | |
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.JPG) Park in 2014 | |
| Born | 4 October 1993 |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalized) |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) |
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| Spouse |
Ezekiel
(m. 2017; div. 2020) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Eun-mi (sister) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박연미 |
| Hanja | 朴研美 |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Yeon(-)mi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Yŏnmi |
YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2017 – present |
| Genre | Human rights activism |
| Subscribers | 1.01 million[1] |
| Total views | 99.7 million[1] |
Last updated: 23 February 2023 | |
| Website | yeonmi.com |
| Signature | |
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References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park". YouTube.
- ↑ Schlott, Rikki (11 February 2023). "North Korea defector Yeonmi Park slams woke US ideology".
- ↑ Phillips, Tom (10 October 2014). "Escape from North Korea: 'How I escaped horrors of life under Kim Jong-il'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ↑ Park, Yeonmi; Maryanne Vollers (2015). "Seven: The Darkest Nights". In Order to Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (1st ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-59420-679-5. OCLC 921419691.
he was moved to Camp 11, the Chungsan "reeducation" labor camp northwest of Pyongyang.
- ↑ ""Kim Jong Un doesn't like me at all," says 21-year-old defector from North Korea". Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2015.