I have visited slums in Mumbai, I have visited slums in other countries, but nothing is like North Korea because North Korean… — Park Yeon-mi Country Copy Share Image
I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of… — Park Yeon-mi Food Copy Share Image
I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy… — Park Yeon-mi Book Copy Share Image
When I saw my father's death it was not human, he was less better than an animal and I didn't want the… — Park Yeon-mi Death Copy Share Image
If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate. — Park Yeon-mi Desperate Copy Share Image
I had to be very unrealistic about my situation. If I was so realistic I would never have made it this far.… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they've just completely lost the ability to think critically. — Park Yeon-mi Ability Copy Share Image
I didn't know what freedom was. I didn't even know the word. I didn't know the concept. I never heard of that… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association… — Park Yeon-mi Enemy Copy Share Image
I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying. — Park Yeon-mi America Copy Share Image
I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
In North Korean culture, love is a shameful thing and nobody talked about it in public. The regime was not interested in… — Park Yeon-mi Culture Copy Share Image
I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I really had loving parents, and my father was the example of perseverance... he never gave up, and he taught me it's… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
In restaurants, when people order food - and they have menus - I hate that. Just give me something to eat. Quantity… — Park Yeon-mi Food Copy Share Image
The year 2015 brought me so many further chances to spread the word about human rights violations in North Korea, from addressing… — Park Yeon-mi Human Copy Share Image
I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
They said if you are in China you have to be sold, you have to get married. And something that still saddens… — Park Yeon-mi Care Copy Share Image
All the foreign movies we saw about love affected me and my generation. Now we no longer want to die for the… — Park Yeon-mi Generation Copy Share Image
Back in 2014, at the One Young World Summit in Dublin, I shared my story of my escape from North Korea to… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I thought, if I go to China, I might find food to eat. The only reason to escape was to find a… — Park Yeon-mi Escape Copy Share Image
I was able to see the lights coming from China. If maybe I could go where the lights are I could find… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
