Park Yeon Mi Speech Transcript

Yeonmi park tells her story of life in north korea and calls for action against such human rights violators.

Park yeon mi speech transcript. Watch here i have to do this because this is now i m speaking for people who want to tell the world what they want to say. Park yeon mi yeonmi park. Yeonmi park writes in her memoir in order to live that she is most grateful for two things being born in north korea and escaping safely. One person claiming to be park s uncle says her father was put in jail for illegally selling copper.

She came from an educated politically connected family that turned to black market trading during north korea s economic collapse in the 1990s. The transcript of yeonmi park s speech. Her 2014 article about north korea s black market generation in the washington post has created a sensation worldwide and the memoir about her escape from north korea in order to live. Yeonmi park s two year old speech goes viral.

North korea has released a video directly contradicting famed defector activist yeonmi park s testimonies. Yeonmi was speaking at the one young world summit 2014 in dublin. At the 2014 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. Yeonmi park is the renowned young human rights activist and north korean refugee and defector who has become a leading voice of oppressed people around the world.

Born 4 october 1993 is a north korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from north korea to china in 2007 and settled in south korea in 2009. Yeonmi park s escape from north korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. Born october 4 1993 source. Park escaped from north korea with her mother at 13.

Escaping from north korea in search of freedom. Yeonmi park 21 escaped from north korea when she was a little girl and used her newfound freedom of speech to open up about the plight her people face under its brutal regime. The video released by the north korean propaganda channel uriminzokkiri features interviews with those claiming to be park s relatives. Here s the transcription of her heartbreaking speech.

We aren t allowed to sing say or think the way we want. A north korean girl s. I have to do this because this is not just i am speaking this is for the people who want to tell the world what. After her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling her.

In less than a week 65 million people have watched this heartbreaking video about a young girl s amazing story of survival.