Yeonmi Park is a human rights activist, her life story is incredible.
Yeonmi Park is a human rights activist, her life story is incredible. This interview video is long, 2 hours, but totally riveting and worth watching. Turning on CC for text of her Korean accented English may be helpful. If you're not familiar with her, she has a 10 minute TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzTo-y8Ef0 Some spoilers from that 2 hour interview, if like me, you're skeptical about spending 2 hours of your time and need some justification. She escaped with her family from North Korea into China, where she's part of China supported human slave trafficking (sex slave included) starting at the age of around 13. She, her sister, and mom were all sold into slavery. China supports this, because of the one child policy causing so many female fetuses to be aborted, they have 30 million men with no potential female partners. China is also propping up the North Korean gov't. She became a mistress of a slave trader, who was violent, abusive, but did help