North korean girl speech

Twenty-four-year-old human rights activist and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her speech from the One Young World Summit has been viewed over 80 million times. It was normal for Park to see dead bodies as she walked to school and to be so hungry she ate wild plants. In , Yeonmi and her mother crossed a frozen river into China, hiding from Chinese authorities for two years before finally seeking refuge in South Korea. She believes that change will come through young people like herself, whose exposure to capitalism and Western media is eroding the authority of the Kim dynasty.

Now the world is cheering Trump. The future of peace and security for the world, for the whole world. This regime has the worst human rights record on earth. This man runs concentration camps, deliberately starves people for control, and assassinates members of his own family.

She says she endured repeated sexual exploitation at the hands of a human trafficker and watched as her mother was sold off and forced to marry a Chinese farmer. Speaking out has earned her censure in her homeland. Park takes those epithets as compliments.

Yeonmi Park's escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. At the Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, Park became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her address to One Young World on the horrors of detention camps, political executions and sex trafficking has been viewed over million times on YouTube. In , Park joined the Tory Burch Foundation's Embrace Ambition campaign, a global effort to dispel the double standard of ambition as a positive trait in men and a negative trait in women. She believes that change will come through young people like herself, whose exposure to capitalism and Western media is eroding the authority of the Kim dynasty.