A North Korean defector enrolled in a prestigious American university was shocked to discover the communist similarities of student indoctrination and woke ideologies and fears the US moving toward the oppression she fled.
North Korean defector shocked by communist-like universities
“Even North Korea is not this nuts,” as shocked North Korean defector said. “North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy. I couldn’t believe that…am I sitting in North Korea’s classroom or in America?”
Yeonmi Park, 27, escaped her native land of North Korea under difficult circumstances. She defected to South Korea and later transferred to Columbia University in the US. She got a rude awakening.
As a student at the Ivy League school, she discovered many similarities to the communist dictatorship she fled including anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and forced political correctness, Fox reported.
“I thought I landed in a country where I can say what I believe and have my, you know, freedom to think,” Park said. “However, now I live in a country I have to constantly censor my speech because now in the name of safe place, Columbia told us what we cannot talk about.”
Park said she eventually learned to avoid arguments with students professors and “learned how to just shut up” to maintain a good GPA and graduate.
Giving rights away: defector slams woke Americans
One of things that shocked Park the most is how easily Americans are willing to give up their rights, never realizing they may never come back. She said people in North Korea do not know concepts like love or liberty.
“Voluntarily, these [Americans] are censoring each other, silencing each other, no force behind it,” Park said. “Other times [in history] there’s…a force comes in taking your rights away and silencing you. But this country is choosing to be silenced, choosing to give their rights away.”
American kids don’t know what real oppression looks like
Park knows what living under real oppression feels like. As a child, her mother prepared her for it from the beginning, the New York Post reported.
“Like the first thing my mom taught me was don’t even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me,” Park revealed. “She told me the most dangerous thing that I had in my body was my tongue. So I knew how dangerous it was to say wrong things in a country.”
“These [American] kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced,” Park continued. “Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like. They don’t know how hard it is to be free.”
Park published her memoir in 2015 entitled “In Order to Live.” It tells the story of how she and her mother fled North Korea into China, crossing the frozen Yalu River, only to fall into the hands of human traffickers who sold them into slavery. They eventually escaped with the help of Christian missionaries, fleeing into Mongolia, where they walked across the Gobi Desert, finding refuge in South Korea.
Fearful for America’s future
With the similarity between woke America and communism, as well as what Park experienced in North Korea, she is fearful for the future of the United States.
“I realized, wow, this is insane,” Park said. “I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.”
“And I am so concerned like, if America is not free, I think there’s no place else is left that is free,” Park realized, the Daily Wire reported.
“You guys have lost common sense to the degree that I, as a North Korean, cannot even comprehend,” Park added. “There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it’s complete chaos.”
“In some ways [Americans] are brainwashed,” Park says. “Even though there’s evidence so clearly in front of their eyes – they can’t see it.”
“I guess that’s what they want,” Park concluded, “to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.”
