Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park
Yeonmi Park
	Park in 2014
Born	4 October 1993 (age 30) ; Hyesan , Ryanggang Province , North Korea
Citizenship	United States (naturalized)
Education	Columbia University ( BA )
Occupations	Human rights activist ; author ; speaker ;
Spouse(s)	Ezekiel ; ( m. 2017; div. 2020)
Children	1
Relatives	Eun-mi (sister)
Korean name
Hangul	박연미
Hanja	朴?美
Revised Romanization	Bak Yeon(-)mi
McCune?Reischauer	Pak Y?nmi
	YouTube information
Channel	Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park ;
Years active	2017 ? present
Genre	Human rights activism
Subscribers	1.01 million
Total views	99.7 million
	Last updated: 23 February 2023
Website	yeonmi.com
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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.

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↑ ^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 .

[YouTubeStatsVoice_of_North_Korea_by_Yeonmi_Park-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "About Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park" . YouTube .

[auto4-2] Schlott, Rikki (11 February 2023). "North Korea defector Yeonmi Park slams woke US ideology" .

[Phillips-2014-3] 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 .

[4] 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.

[nyt-apr2015-5] " "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 .

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