“She’s Hurting Survivors!” The Yeonmi Park Scandal Explained, Hasanabi, Joe Rogan, & US Secrets Leak

[@realdoctorobvious]

Lying for dollars seems to be a common career choice in America, now.

[@yake222]

always has been

[@overlookers]

There are 3 constants: Death, Taxes and Grifting

[@bestieswithtesties]

I mean when conservatives prove themselves time and time again to be really dumb and love to throw money at people it's not surprising at all that so many people jump on the wagon.

[@gohabs8918]

There’s a reason why Canadians always dunk on americans. We’re better than them, in every way

[@FusionshadowXJ]

And yet Phil still props up "Bro Tips" Hasan

[@johnnysocket76]

I've heard she was a grifter for a long time. After hearing her talk about "woke" stuff I immediately agreed. Seems to be what a bunch of politcal grifters are doing nowadays so it's barely suprising to me rn.

[@theGameClown93]

The second she said a liberal colleges with blue hairs was worse than NK I knew she was bullshitting

[@cuckoophendula8211]

The first warning sign for me was when she began talking about "cancel culture" with a right-wing lens. I then immediately noped out when she started to go on Candace Owens's show.

[@erenjaeger1738]

If she probably talked about Transgender yall would've been fine, and the conservative would be mad at her XD. Both sides are so stupid. XD

[@dyrtrules7196]

@@erenjaeger1738what’re you talking about lmao

[@AngryBerb]

@@erenjaeger1738 BoTh sIDeS

[@beauty_filled_life]

She’s actually helping the dictatorship by making discredited allegations. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@bobbysworld281995]

A bunch of "Communism Bad, Capitalism/Fascism good" propaganda

[@mesiroy1234]

But she made million

[@beauty_filled_life]

@@mesiroy1234 what’s your point? Oh well, she’s rich now? Guess that makes what she did okay. 🙄 Those companies who paid her could actually go after her for her lies and win a lawsuit getting their money back. She more or less swindled money.

[@90skidcultist]

Yeah, but pretty people don’t really lie, so we should believe *everything* she saids. If you disagree with her, you must be extremely jealous and a Leftist. Try hitting the gym and getting Right-Winged pilled->🦧.

[@iamcage187]

@@mesiroy1234 so you think its cool to sell your soul and sell out your race for money. Cause the alt right will use her and throw her away. You have no actual power in that lane unless youre a white male, they might parade you around and say youre based but the moment they dont need you it why the fuck are you a women or a minority talking.

[@TheGreatChrisB]

Yeonmi Parks story sounded heartbreaking the first hour I heard her talking, then pretty quickly it became obvious she overexaggerates and lies a lot. She has pretty much survived 300 years of torture according to herself. She talks about all these things like only eating 1 grain of rice for 10 years, then eating rats for 10 years and then dirt for 10 years before coming to America, but she was 20 years old.

[@dianejacobs3835]

😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅

[@sleepyearth]

Yea people defending her obviously never listened to her before.

[@svennielsen633]

SHE IS CORRECT. The problem is, that you do not believe her, because you have never been in North Korea. I my younger days I had contacts with a North Korean Friendship Organization, so I can CONFIRM her claims. It was (and is) exactly as bad as she claims. You are an ignorant fool!

[@monabear7287]

In N Korea, 7x7 is 77! Then I knew she was lying.

[@murph8411]

13 when she left, wasn’t she? Although didn’t she also say she saw a smuggled vhs of titanic when 20 which was the first time she realised that the government lied and that you could love people other than the leader which is crazy as I’m sure she loved her family previously and knew it.

[@babysoulie]

I watched an hour and a half KZbin video that ripped apart her discrepancies and just lies. I used to watch her videos because information about North Korea is so scarce but quickly just by her editing and videos you could tell she exaggerated and catered to the general white republican man. It’s so depressing when people spread misinformation because we have to undo it all and present actual information and fact.

[@jtgd]

“I was beat by 3 black women” “I was beat by a man and woman” No reason her story should change so much. First there’s two people from two sexes. Then there’s three people from one sex. I’ve been a victim of crime, but even if I don’t remember the number of guys who’ve jumped me, I wouldn’t pretend like I know the exact number or sex of the perpetrators, especially if I’m being interviewed on it. Then the lie about not prosecuting is just a blatant lie. It’s sad, because Rogan just spread those lies and never verified or tried to verify the claims. This is part of the reason i don’t listen to podcasters who have random guests, and no real standard to fact check the things their guests say, which does impact the views and opinions of listeners.

[@mickeyiael9013]

Same here. I was disappointed and unfollowed her after just a few videos - well before the book. Disgusting.

[@toonzonly-7955]

It's just the usual annoying angry liberals, nothing new

[@nicholasnewman1810]

​​@@toonzonly-7955she's a right wing grifter, being a lying slag is just part of the job.

[@69Deez_Nutz69]

I don't understand why she got popular in the first place considering she looked like your average clout chaser pretend white woman.

[@mariavipond2316]

i met yeonmi at a liberty in north korea event in 2014 and her story then was that she grew up in pyongyang and that her family was well off and didn’t really have much hardship until her parents were imprisoned. it’s been wild to see her turn into this 🥴

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

@@jc-tc8oy Yeah it was always gonna be that way she was literally a coddled dictator supporter and now she’s outside of that and she wants to cuddle up to the future dictators over here. I think we should just send her back.

[@peachy_lili]

as someone who followed her and believed the lies she told about her background I genuinely am furious. she wasted all of our time, sympathy, and so much worse

[@rach101]

I think US should send her back lmao Kim would thank her personally for making his image as the most powerful dictator alive executing people left and right

[@ryanmcgowan3061]

"her family was well off and didn’t really have much hardship until her parents were imprisoned" This is how I understood it as well. These criticism seem to lump her entire childhood into a single point in time. Is that a contradiction? Her family was doing well, then were left to fend for themselves. That's being portrayed as a lie, but that's pretty much how I understood the trajectory of her childhood. If she was so well off, why did she defect? The alleged truth is that she as doing great AFTER her uncle had been imprisoned DURING a famine that killed 3,000,000 people? All these gotchas to her story don't even line up with the history of North Korea at the time. The only people doing OK were very high level government positions, and no one is making the claim that she lied about her uncle or explaining whey she defected if she really was lying.

[@robertgasper2495]

No, she is opposing the democrat dictator wannabees. @@smokedbeefandcheese4144

[@juniorsanchez7441]

I have a coworker in love with Park. This past week i walked in on him listening to an interview with her and pulled up various articles online to show him shes a fraud. He just denied everything as bs despite all the various sources of evidence and contradictions with her own mother’s stories. Just crazy

[@profshad3429]

They don't care

[@Gobbldeegoo1]

She is their confirmation bias. They don’t want the truth or facts, they want their feelings to be validated.

[@CerealKY]

Man, no way?? He didn't believe you? He must be a white red neck republican who can't think for himself. You tried. He is a lost cause now.....

[@killerbuzz3128]

Their “feels” disingenuously disguised as “reals”.

[@titheproven954]

You should let him know she still wouldn't sleep with him.

[@thatswhatshesaid6326]

The more I listened to her I just thought it was bizarre that she was so openly talking about all these horrific events that happened to her. It seem like every time I opened up KZbin she was on a podcast talking about more horrible events. That’s when I started thinking that she might be full of sh*t. It amazes me what people will do for attention. Not to mention there’s so many ways to fact check people nowadays that it seems absolutely ridiculous to go on the Internet and lie over and over and over again.

[@mischa8623]

Same for me, she was all over my feed at first and I thought it seemed a little too open for someone claiming to be risking their life for sharing that ‘info’ publicly. Usually when these people come out sharing their experiences you don’t even see their faces.

[@aSSGoblin1488]

OF fans with her doing it with an actor dressed as Kim

[@mirzar8695]

Even the other NorKor defectors find her sus and not friends with her also she stole some defector’s stories

[@CaptainLuckyDuck]

Her lying infuriates me. I had two North Korean students in my classes when I was teaching in South Korea. Due to their experiences there and how those experiences affected their development, both were behind by about a year or two. It broke my heart because they were some of my best students- they always tried their best and were always kind to their classmates, teachers, and school staff. Those kids struggled. That lady clearly didn't. She could be doing so much good right now, but is choosing not to because she's money hungry.

[@TardMania]

People getting executed for smuggling western products and going to forced labor camps for the smallest thing is true though.. What is she lying about? From what I've heard of her, her stories align with every other survivor I've seen along with all the videos and inside footage documentaries I've seen from there. You start your statement with "she's lying" then you confirm her horrible accounts with your NK-students? The shit she's seen and remember is far worse than you'd think, and the mother might be killed if she says anything negative about NK. I'm 100% sure this is a payed ploy by North Korea to discredit her and call her accounts for "western propaganda" because she's more popularly known than the other survivors. Also, there are video footage of people making bread out of roadside grass and weeds, and there are other survivors whom claimed the same shit long before Yeonmi escaped in 2009.

[@edwardmartin3549]

Male students

[@osheridan]

​@@edwardmartin3549 ?

[@CaptainLuckyDuck]

@@edwardmartin3549 Pardon? Where did you get male students in there? I'm a bit confused. I can only see one comment, but it shows there are 3- this may mean that I'm missing context. If I'm missing context, would someone please put it below? If not, please read on: For their privacy, I won't reveal the gender/sex of either student, but, even then, this wouldn't matter, and I don't know why anyone but them would need to know this information anyway. These are their lives and they know who they are and how they feel about themselves. We have no right to dictate another person's life just because it's different from how we live ours. I find it incredibly strange how people are so defensive about transgender issues when it literally has no affect on you as a person whatsoever. It's the same argument I give with those who have issues with the LGBTQIA+ community and a quote I came up with when discussing this at one time: "It ain't your body; it ain't your bedroom; it ain't your business." To me, too many people have too little going on in their own lives that they have to stick their noses into the lives of people they don't even know who are just trying to live their lives in the truest way they can. Even if you did know the person, I still refer to the quote above. I must say, though, what a miserable way to live- going around and telling people what they should be according to you, when you yourself will never be the perfection you have in your own mind. It all boils down to insecurity in one's self, otherwise, people would know it won't affect them and just let others be. The sad truth is that path where your insecurity dictates every part of your life and you are forcing what you believe are fixes for your own insecurities on others leads to fear, isolation, paranoia, and can go as far as to suicide when you've backed yourself into a corner with it far enough. Hate doesn't just hurt the one being hated, and those who hate can't seem to understand this. Hate is a choice. Why choose it when there are so many more negatives as opposed to choosing love? I truly hope you look for help. Look for peace. Let others live as they know is best for them and focus on you- in doing so, you may find that there are some wonderful trans people out there with tons in common with you that just want to be your friend and nothing more.

[@moldy_gecko]

How do you know her story isn't true? And just discrediting her opinion that the politics in America are leading towards authoritarian?

[@simonlegosson7082]

Yeomni Park has been exposed so many times before. I’m glad more people are starting to catch on. She has built a successful brand on lying about a country where people actually suffer. Not only is it bad because she spreads misinformation, but it also raises suspicion towards innocent people who sharing their real stories about their suffering in North Korea.

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Yeah, but even still, people will either believe her or think she's a liar, regardless of how many times she's "exposed". I mean, look at Joe Biden, he's been exposed as a liar many, many times, yet most people on the left ignore that and continue to believe him.

[@paolo3794]

Damn i really believed her

[@Whiskey-rain]

@@paolo3794 same here

[@Zenkai76]

"exposed" don't you mean character assassinated because she doesn't subscribe the NPC leftwing narrative?

[@Whiskey-rain]

@@snoopysnoops007 her own mom said she was over exaggerating

[@icecream-soup]

Surprise, surprise. Another conservative grifter turns out to actually be a conservative grifter.

[@MrTdub16]

She considers her self "woke" and her self proclaimed politics align more with modern day progressives and / or democrats.

[@idealmasters]

In other news Trump is still saying he won the election. Conservatives are also still saying every illness a celebrity gets was caused by the vaccine. Oh and the Trans want your kids.

[@ronswanson1410]

Whoa deep comment bro

[@eseguerito2629]

@@ronswanson1410This didn’t require any depth.

[@MrAwesomeHero1]

eh democratic people are able do this because after the word its literally just a person meaning regardless of their politic leaning, if the person is a piece of garbage like this women then they are willing to do that.

[@figgusriggs6462]

I'M SO GLAD PEOPLE ARE BRINGING ATTENTION TO THIS ********. I used to watch her stuff, and then I saw one video where she said, "In the spring, we can't even find a rat to eat." She had the same exact tone as the compulsive liars I've met.

[@LaylaH-qv5go]

Wow

[@jessicadepot9181]

Thank you, I was trying to figure out what it was about her that sent off alarm bells. Her tone. I just recently saw a video of her and I believed it, but... Something didn't sit right with me so I went hunting and found this and so much more.

[@almcchesney]

What the us military does in other countries is absolutely despicable....

[@Jamerian2010]

💯💯💯

[@sybill123ful]

nooo you can’t mention that !! north korea is bad, remember? america would neeevverrr have prison camps or let civilians be murdered in the streets, by the hand of the government 😱 north korea all bad, merica all good !

[@Jay_Frank]

Every power acts that way during war. Not saying it's ok or right, just saying that it isn't just the US. Anti US people love ignoring the terrible shit their own country does or have done. It's human nature after all.

[@danielromerosol4158]

Ask that question every time you have bananas and pineapples (google banana wars and Dole Hawaii Queen)

[@supercoolguy43]

war fucking blows, who knew?

[@aiwash2766]

I only needed to hear Yeonmi talk about how she went to university and said it was worse than North Korea for me to realize anything that came outta her mouth was garbage

[@brian8507]

U only care because she is anti leftist... you are afraid of what's coming 😮

[@TetraTime]

@@brian8507 nah

[@minttm]

Oh yeah this is the clip i saw of her. Immediately knew she was just doing shit for views and outrage fame

[@brian8507]

@@TetraTime the red wave is coming.... get ready boy

[@EthanCarey-o9i]

​@@brian8507what's coming bud?

[@timstoddard3707]

I remember John Oliver doing a segment on North Korea, and pointing out how because the country is so secretive with how it carries out its authoritarian rule, it's incredibly easy for people in Western countries to believe overly exaggerated claims about the country.

[@userJohnSmith]

Kim executed senior staff from the previous administration publicly with a flak gun, like it was the freaking middle ages. It's a medieval, feudal kingdom. I think we characterize it pretty accurately.

[@jperf87]

OK?

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Of course Oliver wants to downplay the atrocities in North Korea, he doesn't want the similarities made with the left. Same reason why the left is attacking the sound of freedom, a movie about stopping child trafficking. The left is an abhorrent group.

[@JosephKano]

Except they really do like accordions.

[@renettedescartes]

That is true for north korean too. She left when she was a child. She is repeating stories that was told to her to keep the people in line, it's not a journalistic report.

[@sponsoredbyraidshadowlegen1416]

Yeonmi is just learning that the internet is forever.

[@nootnewt9323]

I’m surprised how long it took people to catch on to what a liar she is. A lot of defectors lie, but her stories are just outlandish and they keep changing too just like her face.

[@hugeassets8678]

She already made her money. She won.

[@Erin_Wilson_Studios]

US military record of killing and injuring civilians is terrible. Their record of compensation nearly non-existent. It's disgusting.

[@konradcurze8176]

No US is funding Ukraine to get it started again.

[@bestieswithtesties]

It's called war bud. It happens. But the American military is actually careful because they at least care about image. Soldiers don't go around raping and pillaging like the russians or chinese would.

[@sm-zn8xm]

There is no one to hold us dod accountable for war crimes, even amercan soldier joke about war crime..

[@deadboltzz5199]

Japan 👀💦

[@PuppetierMaster]

the rule is to deny till someone figures it out and when they do, say nothing till another pop culture icon does something louder, which happens per month. If you're new to this concept welcome, it only gets worse from here on out.

[@DalePWhyte]

I feel really cheated. Yeonmi's book had a grave emotional reaction from me, and I shared the book with so many friends because it impacted me so much. I've kept it with me for years because I wanted a reminder of the atrocities that go on in North Korea. Knowing that it's full of lies and half-truths, written by a liar, I guess I have kindling for my next bonfire now.

[@Artliker1234]

I mean if you listened critically to what she said and the claims of what she was making, it's kinda obvious she's full of it. I think people like trauma p O rn of it all. When she started discussing race issues in a ridiculous way I just stopped listening to her.

[@canadiansmarties]

No offense but you would be better off carrying a book around that talks about the atrocities committed by your own country. It's senseless to demonize and/or fear a country on the other side of the world when ours are so monstrous. I'd recommend Michael parenti's black shirts and reds and I've heard settlers is a good book as well but have never personally read it

[@ComradeFer]

Looking back it’s obvious she’s been lying for years now, but America has such a distorted view on NK that her lies seem believable through lack of evidence. How is there a program to send USB’s with western shows and movies to the North Koreans if they’re starving and eating rats wearing rags and living in huts? What are they gonna plug those USB’s into?

[@frankwest5388]

@@canadiansmartiesyou know you can criticize other countries, while still holding your own up to a standard? Whomever is talked about changes on the conversation, Philly D and by extension his fan base primarily criticize the US for its issues because it’s literally close at home for them. Occasionally talking about other countries doesn’t diminish that, especially if those other countries are active in the wider cultural zeitgeist. What you are doing is classic “whataboutism”, grow up

[@canadiansmarties]

@@frankwest5388 I'm replying to the guy who carries around a copy of yeonmi parks book. In my opinion that energy would be better used to inform people of our own countries atrocities. It's silly to waste your time running around telling people that North Korea is bad because that is already the popular opinion. I think the people who do this are well meaning however they aren't making any meaningful change. It's an easy way for people to feel like they are doing good while challenging the system you live within is much more difficult and often isn't very rewarding as others don't accept it as easily as pointing fingers at others.

[@ReaganRuinedEverything]

I feel into the rabbit hole of Parks videos and she says some crazy things. Some that even I knew were untrue. Then I started getting fed her far right stuff and was like "ohhhh, she's a grifter huh?" And quit following her. Happy to see her getting called out with evidence to prove she's full of shyt lol

[@bojassem12]

There's a video of Park saying that people push trains in North Korea lmao

[@aidanquiett668]

@@bojassem12 Given their infrastructure, that's probably not far off

[@cpu_1292]

​@@aidanquiett668 North Korea actually has OK train infastructure

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

It all started when I saw the memes. "In North Korea, the officers paint a painting of a tunnel onto a mountain side. Then they force people to run into the tunnel"

[@bojassem12]

@@aidanquiett668 if you actually believe Park about people pushing multi-ton steel train cars, boy do I have some NFTs to sell you.

[@biCARRIEous]

I remember hearing Yeonmi's story, and I thought she was so brave for sharing. What a piece of work.

[@bengarland9666]

I read Park's first book (In Order to Live) in 2021 for my Human Rights class and hearing all the rhetoric she has been pushing leaves me awe. It is completely opposite to what she explored in her memoir, especially from the political sense. Unless I am misremembering the contents of her book: Park stayed away from exploring political ideology/theory in North Korea and how it may overlap with that of the Western World. Listening and reading what Park has described in the last few years leaves me with mental puzzle as to what type of person Park is. On one hand the experiences Yunmi Park described in her first book (such as the anxiety and fear she lived with for most of her childhood due to starvation and worry over her family being imprisoned) left me with a mountain of respect for her. But with all the red flags that have risen in the last 3-4 years I am lead to believe she is two-faced, pathological liar.

[@bengarland9666]

@@dreamydavidzzz???

[@HelloHuman1]

@@dreamydavidzzzwhat?

[@Real_SkyRipper]

she isn't wrong, liberals are bad fascist and are the reason why the USA and West Europe are trash now.

[@mikaelavlogz]

@@dreamydavidzzz Most of america is fragile white folks who jump from one party to another depending on who is more popular. Most of these ppl were right wing grifters and now act liberal as if she wasnt saying this for years.

[@2eachaccording]

I’m glad people are finally bringing up Yeonmi Park‘s exaggerations…there is relatively little information that comes out of North Korea but there’s not NO information--it’s frustrating because there’s no need to exaggerate horrors or hardships, but even with my limited experience studying and visiting the area it was painfully obvious that’s what she was doing-- and it’s harmful for North Korean defectors who often have a very challenging and unenviable adjustment after defecting. And need support not people doubting them because she’s making claims about people having to push trains or whatever.

[@blazemaurice5437]

Lol what did u even get out of writing that? Foreal, everyone be putting time and effort into a comment that 24 people like, but I understand the left needs constant attention so you go girl!!

[@Salmacream]

@@blazemaurice5437 it got 16 more in 50 min. Disparaging the amount of likes on a post to underplay the argument is a fallacy. Not a logical argument. I don't even care what she said I am just one throwing your logic back at you, that people vibe with her comment there for it has merit (a fallacy yes the same one you used, just adding this so you fully understand). And telling you, you suck at debate. Work on your rhetoric before you write an argument. You made positive claims, "left needs constant attention," but you gave no evidence. Even if you claim this single comment as evidence. in a country of 334,240,000 people, with a total voter turn out of 62.8% of all people who can vote in the last election for a turn out of 168,420,000/252,230,000. To follow that up, 51.3% of those voters voted left, so you have around 81,000,000 votes for the left. You have identified 1 person of the 81,000,000 who voted of the left last election for the left as, "needing attention." With evidence of 1/81,000,000 minimum all the way to 1/129,393,990 if we extrapolate our data to the entire population that can vote. Then you have not shown that your statement is true. If you wish to look into trends and how data on trends works I would point you to youtube. This comment would be the size of a small book if I wrote out all of the data proving why 1/81,000,000 is not a trend. Needless to say, it is thousands of times lower then it would need to be to even be supporting evidence. I don't even care about politics, you all just suck at arguing and it's annoying.

[@professor1262]

@@blazemaurice5437and what have you gotten out of your comment, that, so far no one has liked?

[@Clippidyclappidy]

@@blazemaurice5437 ​​⁠​⁠ ​​⁠​⁠ Could say the same to you. Why even type this out just to complain about nothing? If anyone is attention seeking it’s you. Atleast they had something to add to the topic at hand, unlike you.

[@TardMania]

You know.. According to this video, Hasan attacks her for underplaying how bad it is in North Korea, and her mother attacks her for exaggeration. Accounts like her's about the place we're told long before she escaped in 09 though, there's even video footage of people making bread using grass, and how currated the few travelers experiences are. Executions and lifetime forced labor verdicts are an everyday occurrence, and there's close to no food for most people. For all you know, her mother might be executed herself if she say's one bad thing on record about NK. Motherfucker, just view a satellite image of the country at night! The only place with electricity is fucking Pyeongyang! The rest of the countries lives with torchlight FFS! How can you be so naive and ignorant that you swallow Kim Young Un's shit like this?!

[@AnimeJT-08]

I read a story about the horrors real saviors have gone through and how she using other people's experiences and claiming as her own is utterly disgusting. It undermines real people who have experience the horrors of North Korea. It's pathetic. The fact her stories keep changing up doesn't help her case. I understand she wants the money and fame but the internet remembers. It's only going to come back and bite her. However, I pray those who have escaped continue to share their stories and they have healed.

[@genericamerican7574]

I’m not saying someone couldn’t be that numb about something but on Rogan show while she talked about how her and her mom were trafficked was like she wasn’t really talking about something happening to her personally. Like if I told someone else’s story. Even if I could have experienced half of that on my own I wouldn’t be able to not have tears talking about it. If the story also included my mom. No shot. You would hear the trauma. How was she not traumatized by it? She showed more feelings when she lied about being robbed because at least some of the story did happen. I wonder if she was punched or just robbed.

[@sakurahayakawa8701]

​@@genericamerican7574you know , you can say she's faking her North Korean experience, but let's not come up with rubbish like she lied about being robbed. The person who robbed her was literally caught and sent to jail for 2 years lmao. Just search up Lecretia Harris

[@jayo7812]

I really used to follow her initially and she was really inspiring.....at the beginning. But the she started grifting 😒😒 She went the most obvious right wing grifting route and I just knew this girl is not being so genuine. Not surprised that this scandal has come about

[@Mangotropolis]

I've had people take my experiences and told them as if it was their friend's, so I can tell you that it definitely hurts! It isn't an ethical thing to do. However, the situation here is one of giving voice to those who have none, and while it is being done in a selfish manner, for fame, we need to focus on the actual issue at hand, which is the threat to democracy. We need to be able to recognize the signs of a society plunging into destabilization and the legalized destruction of our freedoms. I fear that only those who've witnessed what a society without freedom is, can speak knowledgeably on the matter.

[@anacc3257]

Maybe she misspoke and forget some details? Lots of what she's said about her experiences and life in North Korea is hard to corroborate anyway. Very few know what's really going on in a closed off society like that

[@ShardulIyer]

Park's lies definitely hurt real survivors & sadly this isn't new since there have been multiple incidents of such liers gaining fame around some tragedies/awful situations considering it's human nature to want to know about a tragedy while real survivors are too traumatized to speak at that moment. However sooner or later, these liers get caught up in their stories as they get addicted to fame & keep exaggerating their stories as they go on.

[@danielagassi3779]

All true , She's a deceptive and manupulative person, I can't feel a hint of genuine empathy in herself, those crocodile tears and made up fake emotions in most of her interviews are talking. She doesn't seem to care about them, she uses her tale as a self serving way to thrive. Oddly enough, what she denounces is exactly what she seems to be : Corrupted and inhumane

[@RandomPerson-ft2dx]

‘Survivors’ of what?

[@bellatordei3440]

You are the lier here

[@Johann-uc9sn]

The only people that are hurt are NK living in NK.

[@ponquin]

@@bellatordei3440🤡🤡🤡

[@d.h.4778]

We put HOW much into our military?! They have enough to make sure this man and those families are taken care of the rest of their lives. This is disgusting. Why don’t human lives matter?

[@stealthnuke1]

The military is there to defend oil and US corporate interests.

[@kingofhearts3185]

Life never mattered. Crack open a history book and see for yourself.

[@jessica3548]

The military budget DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. Let me repeat: THE MILITARY BUDGET DOES NOT GO TO VETERANS. There is a distinct, separate budget category for money appropriated to Veteran's Affairs. This is why I'm always angry when the reich wing tries to push for more military funding "tO tAKe cArE oF tEh vEtERaNs."

[@SlickAstley_TV]

Rich people put money into the military so they can extract resources from other countries to make more money. Human lives never enter into it (edit: they only seem to exit it, come to think about it)

[@CJx37]

The American economy has been entirely dependent on slaughtering nations' worth of people since World War 2. Without continuing to do actions that have bordered on outright genocide multiple times over the decades the entire country's economy would collapse. The only thing that can change it would be a president committing to completely destroying the military industrial complex and building something new to replace it, but that will require millions of Americans to lose their jobs and find new ones.

[@cloudbasedbear]

I used to follow Yeonmi... I slowly started no to trust her after she made a lot of the same similar content, and then changed information to contradict what she said in a previous video... but to find out mostly everything was a lie is truly heartbreaking

[@PJ-oe6eu]

Hopefully you got some insight into how people like that work making it easier to spot in the future.

[@maggers2580]

Same. I remember the video that made me unsubscribe from her channel was she came out as very pro the 2nd amendment. It was the way she talked about it that made me side eye it and I just couldn't go back to watching her videos the same way. She had definitely started sprinkling her right wings videos thought her videos and I'm upset I got caught up and believed her.

[@arisu229]

I'm not that crazy about her enough to follow her channel. If you don't talk about your story, you will never get credit for it. Bad things happen to people and they don't talk about it, in fact it could make you look embarrassing. In fact, whatever bad that happens to you makes you a victim or irresponsible of your situation especially in a military environment. If you don't call the police, you're not going to get justice or anything for that matter. If you don't say something, you're going to be ignored. I hope her story is true, especially the Christian missionaries helping people escape. I mean JBP is very interested in her story and that's why I take her seriously it's because so famous and convincing.

[@osheridan]

​@@arisu229 Hoping her story is true because she's famous is a horrible reason to believe her. I don't control you, believe whatever you like, but I hope you can see how that's nonsensical

[@Gorbgorbenson]

Yeonmi Park once said, "In North Korea, Rats eat the babies, then babies eat those rats." I think that's enough said to discredit how insane her claims are.

[@cpu_1292]

she also said plants become poisonous once a year

[@dboone7670]

​@@cpu_1292seriously?

[@lowkeyimloki8741]

​@@dboone7670please don't be serious. That is a concerning level of "how the what the" that I don't have time to process😨

[@BusinessSkrub]

And where's the same energy for the Amerikkkan politicians that likewise lie and spew provably false nonsense? Seems we're real good on the internet at getting random people cancelled for dumb shit, but the politicians and investor thieves seem to have no repurcussions ever🤔

[@dylansimpson7831]

​@@cpu_1292I think this one may have been a translation issue actually. A lot of wild plants are only edible when they first emerge in the spring, and then as they mature they start building up bitter compounds and getting tougher to the point when they can't really be eaten. It's especially true with greens. She's definitely not the most credible person though so I may be giving her too much credit here.

[@merrilly-]

I always thought it was fishy that she was pushing her image so much without worrying about being caught. Glad I was right

[@butameremortal9424]

Same! Gotta stick with my gut 😉 it's a shame. You don't want to think that of someone who is a "victim".

[@alexiswashington3559]

She still escaped and could get caught and says she can’t travel to certain countries with nk embassy

[@DewtheDew91]

I first heard of her from Rogan. I remember after she was telling stories about eating rats that just ate her friends somehow Rogan connected it to the govt response to Covid and how it was similar to North Korea. That was when I really started dialing back on my Joe Rogan consumption.

[@fangal12]

Yeah I'm not a Joe Rogan hater, I've had a soft spot for the guy since News Radio but the way he often just let's people spew blatant lies unquestionably and spins it into a right wing narrative turned me off from his podcast. I still listen from time to time when he has a comedian on but that's about it

[@michaelwoller6450]

I remember having a similar reaction

[@Zei33]

I hate Rogan. Always have. He shows up in my KZbin shorts feed all the time even though I dislike and move on right away. I have no idea how so many people find him entertaining.

[@bestieswithtesties]

Yeeah Rogan has gotten objectively dumber and dumber over the years. Or maybe it's just more obvious now and he's always been dumb hard to say. But yeah I used to watch him all the time and now I never do because he not only brings on really dumb people like Park but often times when he does he also says really really stupid things. He just says stupid shit all the time these days.

[@NickTheShark_]

​@@Zei33 What don't you like about listening to his podcast?

[@VenomPureEvil]

Compensation for the injuries and death for the families of the people caught up in war raids would be a number so small in comparison to the nearly trillion dollar budget of the military that it might as well be nothing but i guess their pride and image is just more important.

[@HaloJumper7]

Vets die on the streets in the US. Why would the white supremacist imperialists care about brown people overseas they use for shooting and bombing practice for military industrial complex shareholders' stocks to go up and get more taxpayers' money.

[@Colorcrayons]

Yeonmi has been riding the obvious clout train for a long time now. When I first heard of her, I felt terrible for her, but after watching several of her streams (which were just doing the usual exposure for clout that media influencers engage in) it became glaringly obvious that she is performative, and not sincere. Later allegations just solidified my deductions based on what I observed. I never knew she went right wing, but that makes sense. Again, clout chasing, is easiest when doing it with a right wing audience as they will eat anything up that validates their world view instead of challenging it.

[@anacc3257]

She defected North Korea, of course she's gonna start associate with the opposite of what's going on there. The right wing in this case.

[@seb5945]

The opposite is true as well. Now that she's leaning right and doesn't validate the left's views, all of a sudden the lefts decided her story's not true anymore.

[@turinturambar347]

She is a grifter. But a lot of the defectors do go right wing. She's hardly the only one to say she sees parallels of the DPRK and radical left wing ideologies labeled as progressivism. I'm liberal, but it's not surprising that the big government left would be seen as somewhat parallel to the DPRK at least in its beginnings. There has been a lot of authoritiarianism, banning people and condemning people who have views that don't align with the left, forcing procedures(I'm pro vaccine but never agreed that it should be mandatory), outlawing jokes that are deemed offensive, etc. I mean, the left even set up a "ministry of truth". I mean that shit is straight out of 1984. So yeah, I'm a liberal who hasn't been too happy with a lot of the authoritarian stances the left has taken in recent years. So I'm sure it isn't difficult for an outsider to also find it disturbing. Especially when they left an authoritarian, big government state.

[@osheridan]

@@turinturambar347 When is vaccination mandatory? You can lose your job if you don't get it but that's only to stop you from actively endangering your co-workers... nobody is kidnapping you and forcing you to get it

[@ohiodoesntexistordoesit]

@@turinturambar347 "big gov left" bro you are not a liberal you are a conservative that drank the kool aid also not a lot of North Korean defectors are right wing and some have even spoken out against govs like the US stating their recent actions like illegally spying on their people is what NK does and stating their targeting of minorities with laws and violence is no different then their home nation

[@nerdtalk1789]

I don’t know why so many people thinks that she’s lying. I can agree that she might be getting caught up in the politics, but that doesn’t mean it’s disingenuous. There could be various factors that play into this, such as not being able to remember certain details as clearly, or mixing memories things like that. And maybe she is exaggerating a few things, im no expert in North Korea. But I don’t think that means she’s just a cash grab

[@jamesgamesalot8239]

It’s really impressive that you are covering this bombing story. I can’t imagine it’s a big click generator so I respect your conviction in bringing us important stories instead of just tabloid clickbait. I wasn’t aware of any of the stories you brought us today. Thanks, Phil.

[@michielubbe]

Sad that she feels the need to lie and mislead like this. It potentially discredits anyone else’s story who comes from NK

[@ayouberriouch5973]

Sad but that's what attention and fame do to Human brain

[@sm.saadarefin2879]

Atleast she is HOT . 😍

[@thecalham]

I didn't think this was news tho like I swear I saw articles last year calling her out

[@michielubbe]

@@thecalham yeah for sure, there’s always tiktoks/videos/articles etc calling people out but when it’s regarding such a tragic situation, you really don’t wanna believe that the person is terrible

[@Yessiree3]

@@thecalham plenty of people have called her out for being a liar, but this time is the New York times. She’s also been on a podcast tour so you’ve probably seen her everywhere.

[@TheTrackRecord]

I visited North Korea a few years ago. I remember afterwards seeing her talk to Jordan Peterson and making claims about how there is no love in North Korea even between family members and I thought at the time that seemed like a pretty outlandish claim.

[@weomxd]

she also claims there is only one train in the dprk 😂

[@nr1785]

That thing about no love between family members is not true. I just watched an older documentary the other day, it was about a South Korean woman who visited NK, and in one part she was in a NK families home. You could see the families love for each other was genuine. There are also stories on KZbin about NK defectors who wish they could go back because they miss their family so much .

[@TheTrackRecord]

@@weomxd I know that one isn't true because we went to one of their train stations haha.

[@bellatordei3440]

Sad but true

[@Johann-uc9sn]

He made that claim for the very fact that family members rat out other family members instead of them all taking the pain.

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

I was enthralled by Yeonmi's KZbin channel years ago as I found her videos fantastically entertaining. She told stories so well and seemed to have an instinct for how to get to salient and interesting details in a tale and keep her videos well paced and compelling. That being said, I also narrowed my eyes at her very early on, and my gut instinct quietly said, 'something's not right with this woman.' I still don't know what to make of her and would be furious to learn of how much emotional connection and intellectual investment on my part was absolutely worthless due to her being a fraud to some degree. What a waste of time and furthermore, she'd be the one responsible for putting entirely false information into my noggin whilst portraying herself as someone-- and indeed someTHING-- that she's not. It's a horrible thing, to convince people that you're deserving of great respect and a source of first-hand cultural information when you're lying or embellishing shamelessly. I'll keep my wits about me and see what the future holds with regards to Park.

[@clicheguevara5282]

So you "narrowed your eyes" at an Asian person, eh? Sounds pretty racist to me.... (j/k raughing out roud)

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

@@clicheguevara5282 Oh HAHAHA! I caught that awful double meaning as I was typing it but left it in because she's just another human and I'd use that turn of phrase for everybody with no ugly pejorative meaning intended whatsoever. I have to tell you though, I draw the line at saying someone looks like a monkey when they're from a certain part of the globe. The world is all so twisted up and people thinking my observation was racist says everything about them and nothing about me. Some people DO look like monkeys-- a bit like how some people look like foxes, teddy bears, mice, pigs, turtles and chickens. Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle, let's have some real talk here. 😉🤷‍♀😆

[@RandomPerson-ft2dx]

The fact that you watched her videos because you found them “entertaining” says a lot about you. It only takes some critical thinking skills and reading a book or two to understand the lies you fed about North Korea (or the DPRK by its official name). Idk what that paragraph is about.

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

@@RandomPerson-ft2dx Whatever you say champ.

[@MGC-XIII]

I'm sorry what? Being free and being able to do what you want is the same as North Korea? Nah she found out that one of the easiest ways to make money in the US right now is to be a right wing grifter.

[@badwolf3618]

Left-wong grifters are just as profitable. She just picked a side you didn't like.

[@profshad3429]

​@@badwolf3618ok believe what you want, no one cares

[@sybill123ful]

@@badwolf3618why are you so mad 😂

[@The_Evening_Sun]

​​@@badwolf3618it is profitable but not as much as the right-wing grifters who have a larger amount of wealthy industries with shitty practices willing to toss money at them. Like the gun industry, and oil among others. That's why there are a lot more right wing grifters than there are left.

[@badwolf3618]

@@sybill123ful you are assuming I am mad because I corrected the original commenter. I am not mad. You just wanna assume I am so that you don't have to engage with my argument.

[@babykitty13]

Yeonmi Park is a grifter. I’m glad more people are noticing. She’s said things on Twitter about the oppression of black people that make it seem like she’s the authority on oppression because she came from North Korea. Ever since then I’ve seen her fall into the right wing grift rabbit hole. All this after read her book. Wish I hadn’t paid for it

[@dudeorduuude5211]

You are a sheep

[@aidanquiett668]

Do you think modern black people in the US have anything remotely similar to the treatment that citizens in NK have? You cant get much more oppressed then NK, the government literally controls everything and the people have so little power they can barely feed themselves due to the government's corruption and greed

[@primus3601]

​​@@aidanquiett668the point is she's a Liar, Grifter and probably a racist on top of that.

[@mikaelavlogz]

You're mad that somebody left an oppressive country and told you black ppl are not the center? Wild, you're such a narc. You only care about yourself. It's giving white fragility.

[@aajohnsoutube]

I thought anyone who watched her enough knew she lies.

[@JordiVanderwaal]

What pisses me off about the Yeonmi Park situation is that tankies on social media use her lies as a way to justify what North Korea does to defectors and to its citizens. :/

[@Carebearritual]

EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! I’m a leftist, and I’m horrified by some tankies willingness to be kushy with a dictatorship (and clearly not a dictatorship of the proletariat, which I know they will say as a defense bc they “read theory”). Just because something isn’t as bad as it could be, doesn’t mean it’s amazing or good or equal

[@JordiVanderwaal]

@@Carebearritual exactly, I feel the same way about all of this. :/

[@jonh5832]

Lift the genocidal US sanctions, and the lives of the Korean people will change drastically for the better.

[@anacc3257]

Yeah that's why I don't take much of the criticism against her seriously. It's apparent what the motivations are by many who try to discredit everything about her.

[@raylouis7013]

It's pretty clear that she's lying and has gone full on American right-wing mouth job. I have known a couple of North Korean defectors. Their stories are horrific but nothing like hers. In fact THEY are highly critical of her.

[@SnapWireOnlyOne]

The Yeonmi Park Scandal i called months ago and everyone called me BS

[@madhurakamat1656]

Now you can be the person who laughed last but laughed the loudest😂

[@annabellehe4307]

Ive heard people call yeonmi a liar for years but this is the first time ive ever heard anyone CLEARLY and concisely explain why

[@haileys5224]

Truly I don’t under how anyone with common sense wouldn’t immediately understand she’s a lair. She’s says things that are so bombastic and outside the scope of reality it just takes a quick google search.

[@jennifercooljeo6552]

@@haileys5224exactly, such BS from that woman. Her face doesn’t even look right lol

[@mpl347]

@@jennifercooljeo6552she started getting plastic surgery after she gained more recognition

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@jennifercooljeo6552plastic surgery

[@epic7224]

I mean it IS true she is an NK defector. However she was one of the rich ones over there, her life wasn't what she made it out to be. She probably wanted to make it seem like she suffered more so ppl would feel more sorry for her. Imagine if she said how rich she was over there? That wouldn't win her much sympathy.

[@mrelephant2283]

Yeonmi Park has been a good meme of a human being for a good while now, but I'm glad more people are seeing that she's a bit of a talking head

[@GSP96]

I wish more people would realize the amount of misinformation Joe Rogan helps spread. It's willlllldddd

[@profshad3429]

​@@GSP96They know, they don't care.

[@gudkush420]

Not just a talking head. She got tokenized.

[@GSP96]

@@profshad3429 :(

[@yololoyo7379]

@@GSP96 sadly some people doesn't care, they believe want they want to believe knowing it's wrong

[@johnnyc.3261]

I’ve been saying that Yeonmi was a liar for years. It’s crazy that she hasn’t gotten caught yet. It’s because people like her story, it works perfectly in a fragile right wing persons head. Edit: people have talked super spicy over me saying that she lies.

[@UsernamesAreBack]

Her mud stories towards kids has me rolling. This hideous liar wore Chanel bags and other imported stuff during her time in RNK. OF COURSE we all agree living in North Korea is absolutely terrifying and terrible, but now her lavish lifestyle is being supported by the same folks who create a terrible reality for POC.

[@jtgd]

Yup, the changing of the number of suspects and their sex, the lie about there not being prosecutions against the perpetrators. She’s a grifter, and people ate up all her lies at face value. Then they pretend they didn’t, or double down and play ignorant because “she’s on our side”

[@TheRed02151]

You realize it doesn’t matter what her “commercial” story is because she’s literally a defector from North Korea. You guys are making it out to seem like she’s been living in Beverly Hills her whole life. She was a literal slave to the Kim regime irregardless of how spicy her story sounds. To call out a LITERAL VICTIM for lying is gross, she’s literally a refugee. Wasn’t everyone here literally calling people racists and bigots the other day for calling that karlee story a lie? Guess it’s different because Yeonmi has conservative opinions? You guys are literal clowns. This is the epitome of group-think.

[@nauti31210]

relax bandwagoner. you been saying nothing for years 😂

[@genericamerican7574]

I really hope the punch in the face was real. She didn’t deserve getting robbed though. Lying about it being because of a BLM riot was gross. She insisted on referred to them only as riots. I know there were both so questionable what was she doing in a riot?

[@friendlyneighborhooddg]

Came for North Korea defector scandal allegations, stayed for US covering up modern wars crimes happening in my lifetime. Great cover today guys! I definitely got Phill’d in nicely

[@TheSMR1969]

Yet DeFranco regularly defends the US and NATO

[@MaxPower-js1sk]

I live in Asia and I’ve seen this woman on KZbin. I’m surprised that so many people believed her lies. Lots of people escape via China, then move towards nicer countries, so we hear their stories.

[@illgamer2520]

why do people need to "escape"? why doesnt north korean dictatorship let their people live willingly?

[@dnk7606]

Why do people escape China?

[@phnix6242]

@@dnk7606 because it is so awesome

[@dorayap7734]

​@@dnk7606not escaping china, but escaping north korea via china. And yes some people escaping china before they open to the world. And some escaping china before world war 2,like my grandpa escaping china to east indies in 1920's because he doent want to join the civil war in china

[@JesusSavesTheLostBrokenConfuse]

You live in Asia but you arent Asian, we Asian know real suffering from communism and our ancestors experienced it the most. You are just spoiled and privileged.

[@nicolehughes7863]

I know our military engages in disgusting horrific practices, but it's important to hear victims actual stories so i don't just see them as statistics, and it motivated me to do more and speak out and inform othwrs who may not know, not just simply hold an opinion. It's atrocious and pathetic, thank you for sharing this information.

[@asterisk606]

I suggest put that effort into learning what war is actually like and maybe you'll realize it's an unfortunate consequence. Men in a van approaching your troops from a location you just got shot at from. You need to realize the severity of that situation, where it's assumed the people coming towards you are trying to kill you. Not stop by and hand out water and smile at you.

[@v-22]

@@asterisk606 What the f is our military doing there to begin with, buddy? "Spreading freedom"? "Fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here"? Which bs slogan are you going to throw at me? You are the one who needs to wake the f up!

[@mykeCA82]

@@asterisk606 Maybe stop waging war and focus on your own country instead of taking the lives of civilians. American military is disgusting that they willingly take civilian lives and label it as "a cost". If you support the military, you support war criminals, period.

[@mob322]

@@asterisk606 Ok so what? that means the army shouldn't compensate him after they learned he was NOT a militant?? Regardless of whether you agree with their actions, they should have been compensated. Also they did not even properly warn the van, they did not have sufficient time to react. The truth is this situation could have been avoided and it most certainly could have been compensated for. The fact you think its ok for them to kill 2 innocent civilians and disable the 3rd condemning him and his family of 5 to poverty without offering a single dollar from its practically infinite budget is genuinely fucked up and heartless. I assure you if you knew anyone who suffered even half of what this family suffered you wouldn't be uttering such dumb bullshit to make yourself look like some 'realist'.

[@mycelia_ow]

@@asterisk606 You didn't watch that segment here then, because the DoD/Pent claimed no wrong doing. THey didn't say it was an unfortunate consequence, they keep saying they were militants and making stuff up in reports. That's kind of unusual for people who mean good and actually want to protect the innocent, not get at the enemy at any cost.

[@Paternaled]

I think it’s insane that US military stories like that have been so common over the years but we’re so desensitized to terrorism happening in Eastern countries that we don’t look at the details like this. Thank you for covering this, Phil and team.

[@sereously]

Arabs are ike cockroaches

[@RebelTvShka]

It's funny that we condemn terrorism so much without acknowledging or at least compensating for our own terrorist actions in another country.

[@nerdjournal]

I wonder if that man who lost part of his arm and hand has some type of crowdfunding campaign? I don't mind pitching in to at least help fix one wrong our country has caused.

[@spndrtwentythree5239]

America is the terrorist of the world if everyone is honest and take the US definition and labelling of countries and people labe terrorist they would #1.

[@sumayyahadetunmbi4347]

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[@omggiiirl2077]

I stopped liking her when she tried speaking on Black people and our situation here in the USA. I'm half Korean and Black, and at first I felt for her, as I have relatives in North Korea, and I don't know if they're alive or dead. But once she started talking about things she doesn't know about I was not just offended, I was disgusted.

[@Crazyeg123]

thanks for sharing

[@R0YB0T]

What specifically did she say about black people other than that she was robbed by then in Chicago?

[@Sen1ient]

As a half Syrian born and raised outside Syria. It’s sad to see how people in my country suffer and how little accountability the American military take for their actions. I’ve been to Syria almost every summer since the war started and I can say things are better there. But the realities of the past will not go away for many generations

[@Snailman3516]

The American military is way too used to getting everything they want. A few years ago there was a scandal where they didn't know where about a trillion dollars of spending went and the government just kind of told them not to do it again. They are basically the world police, but if those police were from Minneapolis.

[@jonh5832]

The US military should leave Syria and pay trillions of dollars in reparations for all of the damage it caused to critical Syrian infrastructure and to the brave Syrian people who have been forced to endure for so long. I hope one day Syria can finally be free from US Imperialism.

[@anacc3257]

@@jonh5832 Only the US?

[@osheridan]

@@anacc3257 it's the US we're currently talking about, so yes.

[@Salmacream]

@@jonh5832 I dont want to pay for it, hope that doesn't happen. Contries fight, its human nature to fight, If there is a chance for damage to be caused I don't want it to be here. I would rather it take place there, and as long as the USA is making me pay for its military, I expect that military to make it so I don't have to pay other countries for the fighting we do. Lets be real, we don't have trillions to pay them. Who is going to pay for that? Why weaken ourselves to pay for it? Do you think the people that don't like us will let us sit if we roll over and pay them? This isn't about the left or the right, its about world stage politics, rule 1 you don't pay if you don't have to. It would be nice if you could and not be punished for it, but you will be.

[@AwesomeTingle]

I read a book called "See You Again in Pyongyang," and in it, the author explained that most of the most famous north korean defectors take the most extreme abuses they hear from other women and combine them all into one story. So generally, one person might've experienced a portion of something similar to what happened, but never all of the things.

[@Nicole-xd1uj]

I lived in South Korea for a decade so I was quite interested in Yeon mi's story when she started posting. After a couple videos, I decided she was too fake for me to believe. She also had some opinions that I didn't think she was qualified to really being talking about.

[@Artliker1234]

It's the way she talks about "new" information that made me dubious, HOW WOULD SHE KNOW 😂

[@klaudinegarcia8932]

I wasn't happy when she posted on her IG a graph about how Asian Americans are doing better than African Americans. Her point is African Americans aren't trying their hardest. Like, Yeomni, you only been in America for a short time. And you didn't even know about the existence of the rest of the world let alone African Americans. How can she know so much about African Americans??? She isn't socialised enough around them to even understand them.

[@HelloCoco888]

I can’t stand YeonMi Park but what we need is for somebody to REALLY challenge her on her BS. I saw her interview on Flagrant 2 (no idea why she was on a comedic pod lol) but they just lapped up everything she was saying no matter how insanely unrealistic her claims were…the same thing happened on JRE it was just embarrassing. She needs to be challenged by somebody who is more on the center-right.

[@canesugar911]

Because she is propagating the right's (centre or far right) agenda.

[@bellatordei3440]

Why someone who is not aware of north korea shod challenge her? Because everyone who knows nk knows that she's legit

[@Johann-uc9sn]

Yet nobody really gave any hard evidence that she is lying.

[@R_S747]

​@@bellatordei3440your comment makes no sense

[@R_S747]

​@@Johann-uc9snno hard evidence? Like when she said you aren't allowed to learn mathematics in north Korea yet a north Korean scholar literally showed a picture of a mathematics worksheet for kids? This is literally in the video

[@flyingpigmonkey1]

I don't know that all military mistakes deserve punitive actions but pretending they didn't happen or justifying things is wild to me.

[@bestieswithtesties]

We're talking about a raid being conducted by special forces. Guys who literally train all day everyday and are the elite of the elite. If some idiot drives a van into an active raid and they shoot at him no duh the military is going to have the backs of their operators over some dumb dumb who kept driving despite warning shots.

[@abyshadid5034]

⁠@@bestieswithtestiesdude, you can be a bootlicker and still agree that mass murdering civilians overseas is wrong. Come on now

[@Jkdabomb10A]

@@bestieswithtestiesdid you even watch the video? It would have been almost impossible for him to react or know where the gunshots were coming from. Shut up.

[@genericamerican7574]

@@bestieswithtestiesseems like the report disagrees with your assessment. Let me ask you why you assume that because they’re the elite of the elite that they would never do anything wrong or the military trying have it covered up afterwards? You can’t be so naïve to believe this could not have happened?

[@mahadaalvi]

Now imagine how the family members, friends, and fellow citizens of the countries bombed (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, etc.) feel about it? They've been telling y'all the truth for decades about the disgusting atrocities the American military is actually commiting right now as we speak only to turn around and hear themselves called the "terrorists" across all major American media publications. Then y'all wonder how people could possibly decide to join Al Qaeda, ISIS, Syrian Military, Iranian Military, Russia's side of the Ukrainian War, etc. and commit what you call "random unprovoked" attacks. Smdh. Y'all treat this like it's a movie when the people on the ground actually experiencing it have to suffer just for your entertainment. To them, y'all are literally comparable to the Capital in the Hunger Games which is ironic considering how popular of a series it is in America.

[@Lyndiloo]

Oh man I've thought Park was sketchy for years, I'm so glad people are finally questioning her story.

[@aims2sadome]

As a veteran I sadly can say that I'm not at all surprised. In 2019 we were woken up to "incoming", (RPGs, mortars, etc...) I stepped out of my tent to see the neighboring one on fire. After the dust settled we were informed of injuries, 3 injured, 1 severe through out his legs and the other 2 were minor injuries (1 of the 2 got a free ear piercing). Taliban hurt, I repeat HURT 3 of our guys, we woke up the day after to Warthogs, Apache's and mortars. We never found out the "tole" but I can very confidentially say it was SIGNIFICANTLY worse than 3 personnel and if I was a betting man the same would probably apply for deaths

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

Man that explains why we lose war so much. We can’t get the civilians on our side

[@RachelNicholsChair]

​@@smokedbeefandcheese4144Go look up the outcomes of every war america has been in and see the outcomes. You are quite misinformed.

[@skyseymour3952]

​@@smokedbeefandcheese4144We are actually really good at war. And secondly that's just how the US works, we deal in "proportional" offense. You sink 6 boats, we drop 2 nukes

[@stephanie9463]

@@smokedbeefandcheese4144that cause the civilians don’t want y’all there. You are seen as the invaders. US makes the case worse, they could have figured it out on their own with less people dying and economic disadvantages.

[@jewellerylove]

I’m gutted to hear that Yeonmi Park might be telling fake stories. I’ve been a fan ever since I saw her on Joe Rogan. Assuming the allegations are true, it’s such a shame she felt the need to represent herself and North Korea as something different than the truth smh

[@antonymwangi4986]

This happens all the time. I've noted this with Africans that move to the US. They always find it necessary to exaggerate things like poverty and slums issue.

[@OberynTheRedViper]

Rogan…. Jesus wept. That should have been your wake-up call. He’s down with ANY right wing rhetoric and champions outright lies and conspiracy theories that back up his conservative worldview - he does no vetting whatsoever.

[@sleepyearth]

People have been calling her out for nearly 10 years especially the koreans. They noted how she said she was eating grain of rice for 10 years, then eat dirt for 10 years, then eat tree barks for 10 years and she's only 20 years old at that time. She couldn't even get her stories straight.

[@johnootot]

Bro, she loves you. She loves all the suckers. That’s what makes con artists tick.

[@jennifercooljeo6552]

@@antonymwangi4986lol an Asian woman gets exposed for lying so you bring Africans in this LOOL. If you think people fleeing Africa are lying you are delusional and coping hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@britsaunders2151]

I spent some time watching a number of her videos because I like listening to other survivors. Being a survivor of human trafficking and having been homeless on and off throughout my youth to escape my abusers, I noticed occasionally Yeonmi would drop little sentences here or there that felt borderline shameful. One was something along the lines of "I come here and there are all these homeless here who seem so sad but you have it so EASY." Meanwhile so many of my loved ones, some of the kindest and strongest people in the world, have died from the elements, or at the hands of abusers, or su*cide. She also seriously confuses socialism with dictatorship a lot. Whether you like the idea of socialism or not, I could call myself a doctor but that doesn't make it true. It just felt as I watched that she really didn't have much compassion for the survivors and struggles that are in countries elsewhere. No matter what, you had it easy if you live in North America. That was just my perspective, though.

[@jacksbaldhead8326]

I hope you are doing ok. I can't even imagine what it was like for you having gone through something like human trafficking, abuse, homelessness, etc... You're definitely a fighter as well as a survivor. Tough as nails. Much respect to and for you 🙏😊

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

@@chase-warwick. Nobody said it was capitalist you’re imagining things nobody said. It’s probably because you’re a capitalist. And they tend to do that a lot. Capitalism gives people more schizophrenia than other systems. And the voices are meaner. If you go to Third World countries schizophrenics don’t have mean voices in their head but in Hours they do. That’s because our society is dedicated to money and money is inherently evil.

[@AngelSaintCloud]

I mean I live in a state with the most homeless people (CA) they pay people to be homeless and now they are kind being allowed to live on the highways. Highway 99 south is a popular one.

[@fuck_it]

@@AngelSaintCloud it’s OK all that money we could’ve spent on them is at least going to Ukraine to help fight a war that we should have no part in

[@benadrylcumbersplatch6448]

@@chase-warwick It's not socialist either because there are no armed worker unions/syndicates which Marx stresses are essential for socialism to exist. Also hereditary rule is completely anathema to socialist thought, as is unpaid/forced labor. NK is, first and foremost, a fascist state with a red star drawn in crayon over it, and it's a shithole like every fascist state ever...

[@Flattyflaf]

There was this interview with a guy who was an expert on North Korea who flat out said “Be careful with defectors, while they are truly running away from tremendous hardships they commonly lie and change their stories because they need money and really want a better life. It’s only human, imagine running away from a despotic country and having to live as a vagrant in a completely different country. You would lie too”. This is why I never believed 100% what a defector said, that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve better life it just means you can’t trust everything they say about their past.

[@iam8401]

This is normal for all who got refugee status in the US and other countries as they think they need to prove it not only to the court but to authorites too, so they contineu to receve their monthly allowance which way higher than their salary back home. USSR refugees were notories with the same kind of stories. even so many of them came in 1990s when USSR was gone already and Yeltsyn et al were praised as democrats of democrats while looting their state owned resources.

[@sleepyearth]

@@iam8401 No such thing as democrats of democrats since democrats in America is considered as to the right.

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

​@@sleepyearth Your comment is nonsensical.

[@Kharl19]

Try watching the interview of the former north korea agent defector in vice asia, that guy is the real deal, watch the video where he's still thin, it's more raw and fresh, he doesn't go around shouting defector like this girl

[@alexfrank5331]

I detect subtle racism there. You shouldn't 100% believe anyone. It has nothing to do with defect or not. Countless Born-n-Raised American also embellish on a DAILY basis.

[@MrBoogn]

Thanks Phil and team for covering Syrian story, crazy what the US does oversees that goes unnoticed because people are too focused on the culture wars at home compared to actual wars abroad

[@skyseymour3952]

Every major country on the planet does this. The only difference is the US admits to it every 15 years or so

[@Ammar-pv8wr]

I honestly respect DeFranco so much for covering this. People worship the military so much that it becomes such a taboo to bring up stories like this even among non-conservatives. Hunting down a terrorist - or some bad guy - is not a reason to take any innocent life and people never seem to get that or don't want to. I feel so bad for all those dead.

[@pamelakersten1032]

Leave her alone regardless of anything, the woman has been through more than any of you could ever imagine. I don't believe everything I see on the Internet neither should you. I'm talking about this podcast not somebody who is brave enough to talk about Their hardships. At the end of the day, she doesn't deserve all of this From all of you. She deserves to live a good life now.

[@Useruserusername790]

She probably had a better life in North Korea than you do in America. She is a Rich kid that has capitalized on her stories of Woe.

[@Justanoddpeach]

Dawg... this was honestly one of the most depressing videos from you in a while... what the hell is going on in the world? Regardless, thank you for making this your job. While I try to get multiple sources of news, the reality is most of my information on these things comes from you

[@serriayisasia]

It’s sad to know that the most well known Korean defector with a legendary story (I saw her first with the viral summit video) wasn’t telling the whole truth about it and is now the defacto representative of people who have had to suffer through so much. I watched you KZbin a few times a few years back for her stories on what N Korea was like and while she was right wing in her opinions, I felt like I couldn’t blame her. If she’d suffered so much under a communist regime, I could see why she’d go to the opposite end of the spectrum. It’s genuinely sad to find this out about her. She’s going beyond right wing and starting into alt right opinions.

[@prod.arcsyne2990]

we can blame her, she knows exactly what shes promoting and where it leads, she just decided she wanted to be one of the ones on top.

[@TimeLord675]

We can and we will. No excuses for being right-wing.

[@cheetah219]

It's insane how people don't realize that trying to be martyr for their situation where they DID have unfortunate situations...but then they exaggerate or lie for profit ruins the collective effort. Just like how the ONE time a black woman kidnapping makes national news, it's found to be a grand lie. Now, one of the most prominent North Korean defectors is found to be lying AND influencing right wing movements that she herself may not realize all the issues that come with it is also found lying. That all said, my sympathy can go out to some of these folks. Yes, they were trying to make a profit or cover up a situation or maybe try to bring to light unfortunate cases of discrimination, etc...but one thing that is often missed. It's VERY, VERY hard to realize when your one voice becomes the influential voice for hundreds or thousands. When a random person becomes national news all of a sudden (for example, I never heard of Park until today), that viral moment comes so quickly that it's tough for me to sit here and "yeah she shouldn't have done that". Because, I think it IS difficult to determine when ones comments become the comments of many.

[@aidanquiett668]

@@TimeLord675 I can name one. Having a dem president

[@strawberrybbt1362]

My thoughts and experiences exactly! She started going alt right/conservative REAL hard after she was featured on Joe’s podcast and as soon as she started using the term “woke” I stopped following her immediately. After she had another boom in popularity from his podcast her stories and political views started getting much more ridiculous which I suspected was to pander to his many conservative/alt right viewers who followed her after the show. Oh and I remember one time she posted a reel of her dancing on Instagram and it got taken down because of copyrighted music and she claimed China was trying to “censor” her 🤦‍♀️

[@vatefairefoutre0]

lol I lived in South Korea for many years, might even return to live one day. my fiance is Korean. and I started watching Yeonmi Park's stuff. I'm incredibly interested in Korean social issues, history, and politics, so I watched a lot of North Korean defector stories to say the least. I started noticing how much her story would change from interview to interview. my fiance and his friends told me many South Koreans for a long time now think she's full of shit and a super grifter, works out for her because honestly so few people really know what goes on in North Korea... Yeonmi Park has total creative freedom to say whatever and get exposure/money haha. I guess Americans finally notice this too... which is good lol.

[@theonlyconstantischange123]

Lol as an American born in New York, 99.9999% of us know nothing about n Korea 😂 clearly Yeonmi probably went wild on the Western media circuit simply because she had that one speech that went viral in the mid 2010s. But since n Korea isn't our focus at all she can change her story and adapt and make it more exotic and exciting without most people noticing. Everybody tunes into one of her interviews, tells a friend, then doesn't listen again. But they feel they've learned about N Korea a little bit more. Sad to see she's just such a super grifter who's always looking to keep her ego relevant in the media. Hopefully people don't lose their compassion for actual N Koreans

[@bellatordei3440]

Her stories perfectly match with the stories of other defectors

[@theonlyconstantischange123]

@@bellatordei3440 the very first defector I listened to other than her didn't have a matching story at all. His story was still heart breaking but it really put things in perspective compared to yeonmi. My heart goes out to these people but clear deception should be made known

[@bellatordei3440]

@@theonlyconstantischange123 I had different experiences

[@bellatordei3440]

@@theonlyconstantischange123 of course it won't match, he's a different person with a different experience

[@lunavieira3616]

Maaaaaaannnnn. How am I 42 and still this gullible?? I really wanted to believe Yeonmi. I felt her to be genuine and such a brave person. To think , that she just straight lied… I’m so disheartened.

[@educationalporpoises9592]

It means you want to see the best in people. I'm not so sure you should be ashamed of yourself for that... just sad that you can't trust that instinct, maybe.

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Dude, don't let the left take advantage of you like that. Her "lies" can all be attributed to simple memory alteration. She said she saw someone executed in a stadium for watching a movie, but in reality, she probably combined several events in her life into one. People do it all the time. How many times have you sworn you remember something a certain way, only to discover you were wrong? Here's how you know this guy is disingenuous. Where's his video about Bidens constantly shifting stories? Yeah, exactly. The left hates Yeonmi because the comparisons she makes between the modern left and the oppressive NK state are quite accurate. So they call her a crazy, right-wing extremist, as they do with anyone who goes against them, and know that lots of people on the left will believe it. This guy is just another lefty who tears down anyone who pulls back the curtain on what the left is doing.

[@Gr95dc]

@@fuzzypanda1684 bro... don't

[@fuzzypanda1684]

@@Gr95dcDon't what? Provide an alternative possibility? It hasn't been proven conclusively either way whether she's a liar or not, this is all opinion, both my comment and the video.

[@stevenblackwell4903]

​@@fuzzypanda1684👍

[@IRFine]

NPR: one of the few remaining institutions with true journalistic integrity. Massive props to them for championing this man’s case.

[@jaws392]

LMAO propaganda at it's finest. The left will go down in history like the Nazi's.

[@thekamotodragon]

NPR, "journalistic integrity" LOL.

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

@@thekamotodragonhe’s right NPR is great. Just because they don’t agree with whatever fantasy world you live in doesn’t mean they don’t have journalistic integrity.

[@thekamotodragon]

@@Baelor-Breakspear Do you know what journalistic integrity means man? It means presenting stories, for journalism, in a way that's unbiased, and truthful to their findings. A good example would be a journalist who gets assigned a story, goes out to where their story is, writes down simply what they see, and then reports on those findings honestly, someone without an agenda, whose only goal is to get the truth about a story and then give the people that truth, THAT'S real journalistic integrity. Idk if you've noticed, but unfortunately almost NO news organization in America fits that description anymore, including NPR. They're obviously biased towards one political side and it's extremely thinly-veiled. Promoting progressive causes 24/7 is not real journalism and I'm saying that as someone who isn't even on the right.

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

@@thekamotodragon I’m sorry but you’re wrong. Stories should have bias towards the truth and it’s not NPR’s fault that the truth and data usually lines up with the left end of the political spectrum. Science, data and evidence generally have a left wing bias so would it be wrong to report the story this way? No bias towards the truth is a good thing and don’t hate on news agencies because the truth leans left. Facts generally have a left wing bias.

[@adamcrook4611]

Don't get me wrong North Korea is a terrible place, however anyone who thought she was telling the truth on even half the stuff she was saying struck me as gullible.

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

There are other survivors with MUCH more realistic and consistent testimonies, to be sure

[@Tylermac221]

Yeah, I've always known she was bullshitting because I'm smarter than other people

[@theGameClown93]

That’s the problem, republicans have realized that people are gullible and will act based off their emotions and while the “intellectual dark web” is telling them they are “using facts and logic.” It’s a dangerous barrel of explosives waiting for another Jan 6th

[@sundawg911]

Not surprised and predicted. Esp with her interviews everywhere. I was like... something is up as she was getting coverage and my algorightm when it was something a I never looked for.

[@sybill123ful]

after her own mother came out and said that the majority of the claims she makes about how she grew up, were completely false, i stopped being able to understand why people believe her…. like phil said she was basically “paris hilton” in north korea, she was part of a very rich affluent family and grew up with wealth. she took the wildest stories, and ran with them.

[@__Liza__]

It doesn't matter if she lied about her own experience or if she lied about how bad it is there. She's talking about others's lives since she has a voice. Everyone online or offline lies. Life in NK is horrific- that's a fact. It doesn't matter if she/someone she knew only had to eat a rat once or daily. IT'S STILL INHUMANE AND HORRIFIC.

[@OGPimpin]

It matters A LOT! Yeah, it may be bad over there, but she is speaking from a fraudulent point of view and fools like you keep feeding her ego and pockets because you dont want to see that she is full of crap!

[@WeonRichi]

She’s just a political puppet now for conservatives. She gets paid a bag to go to those republican events and exaggerate the fuck out of her stories.

[@lillyc9634]

I dont know what Yeonmi Park has gone through, but it is certainly different than Hyunseo Lee, who actually never sought publicity for the sake of it. She told her story and started living. Yeonmi has gone to seek publicity from her ordeal with an ever changing story.

[@Nok112]

Are you okay? Like, are your brain cells functioning properly? Not all survivors are the same and the way you spread AWARENESS is to share your story. What she did was BRAVE. What oppressive, third world country have you escaped from? Please tell us how she should have behaved. And no, her words have been cherry picked and manipulated to look exaggerated or untrue. It is so gross.

[@griffinoh3422]

It sucks that Yeonmi's a grifter because as a Korean-American, I feel like the horrific shit happening in North Korea doesn't get enough attention at all. She's probably the most high profile defector atm and she could have used that position to help other defectors and organizations like LINK, who help people in North Korea escape. If you're reading this comment, please take some time to watch some videos from defectors who aren't Yeonmi. Just because she lied about certain parts of her story doesn't mean that North Korea isn't putting people in political camps, that North Korea is actually a communist utopia (yes, people actually say that), and that real North Korean defectors don't struggle both to escape and to assimilate into a completely different country.

[@mooseloose123moose3]

We won’t know the truth unless we see actual evidence. And until Kim Jung Un does an interview on it we’ll never know

[@emerjay348]

Pentagon excusing itself saying that women and children were militias is just mind-blowing.

[@bobbysworld281995]

It happens at every Apartheid supporting government the US is friends with.

[@danielkjm]

They Off Civilians turn back and say they are terror and Ist.

[@asterisk606]

Women and children being used as tools of war has always been a thing because they're unassuming and the sexism of "well they're women, they wouldn't do that kind of thing" allows it to happen. It happened in Vietnam, it happened in the Middle East.

[@danielkjm]

@@asterisk606 Nice justification war criminal.

[@earthynomad7160]

May god punish you for what you wrote. The oppressed will eventually rise . Greetings from the free horn of Africa ❤​@@asterisk606

[@firstnamelastname-nk4ut]

Thank you for covering these two stories, esp. the Pentagon files about the government casually murdering civilians.

[@CJx37]

I thought Yeonmi Park was pretty obviously a grifter when she said that in North Korea people have to push the trains from station to station by hand

[@rushyscoper1651]

ok dude and no one thought she making shit up?

[@FS-qk5uq]

SHE DID NOT?!😂💀

[@mgdii5435]

Bruh i always thought she was sketch, lady said some stupid shit

[@adraino7345]

Ever since I learned about how much money goes into scheduling, booking and planning these kinds of podcast or interview appearances I realized that there’s no way for anyone to give a shit about integrity in that industry.

[@WeyounSix]

Yeonmi has been known to be a liar for a long time so this is nice to finally see being blown open

[@AgeismGoesBothWays]

Just like Trump, I really don't think she can stop herself from lying. it's a compulsion that gets her in trouble again and again.

[@WeyounSix]

@@AgeismGoesBothWays if she is a NK defector it’s possible it’s trauma but it’s also likely entitlement since she was essentially North Korean Elite

[@Shadoufang]

Thank you! I haven't watched you in a long time... but these topics you just discussed made me watch you. These are the things that matter. Again, thank you.

[@Nofaxjustfeelings]

I don't know how people working at the Pentagon sleep at night. This is horrific

[@butchblaster7073]

On a bed of Raytheon and Lockheed money.

[@zolmation]

they have to because speaking out against their superiors just means just demoted and screamed at. the u.s. military is horrible.

[@C.Y.123]

You weren't there. Stuff happens in War. None of us like it

[@NothingbutDust734]

The same way you do. You slept well even with all the inhumane things happening every single minute of the day. Simply because it doesn't concern you. It happened to someone else and not to you. I am actually exhausted of people reacting like you. Seriously?! Just how gullible and naive are you? Unless of course you're the type what we call "living above the clouds" and never experiencing having their feet dirtied by mud. Then good on you, just don't forget, you don't have to do demoralizing stuff because someone else already done it for you.

[@osheridan]

@@C.Y.123 In your comment history you have "Slava Ukraine". Pick a side, either you care about these things or don't.

[@Buster-Sharp]

The last Yeonmi Park video i watched was her interviewing a man who had truly experienced horrors in North Koria, and her body language and interactions with the man told the truth, that she was a full of shit outsider looking in.

[@nynex4]

I came across yeonmi a few years ago, and thought her stories were interesting, but then some of the things she said rubbed me wrong. and at the time I didn't want to doubt her and the struggles of North Korea, but she was pushing some weird narrative during covid and I wasn't sure if maybe she just didn't understand some of the nuances because of where she was from.. but I did stop watching her then. So I guess this story coming up now doesn't surprise me, but rather explains why I was uncomfortable with her then.

[@danielhall8714]

Good to see you on line again .

[@shadowboxing7029]

Immense respect to you and your team for these stories today Phil. They're so important.

[@frogger6478]

Hasan was my first eye opener on her lies. She’s literally just making stuff up to get money. It’s annoying.

[@mrdoogle5931]

You needed Hasan the simpleton to point out to you that this woman is a grifter? Okay.

[@Tylermac221]

Hasan is just as much as a grifter, and anyone who tries to make money off taking a side in the "culture war" is

[@djbobby224]

Isn't he a grifter himself. A socialist millionaire that got his spot of fame due to nepotism?

[@trystan1241]

Here come the antis. His name is like a trigger word for uncharitable people

[@sybill123ful]

@@djbobby224do you know what a grifter is,..,.. serious question

[@yusufsherif9705]

Thank you for taking time to talk about the Pentagon files, it is really great to see some people care about these things even though those who did commit a crimes will not face consequences .

[@stuartwilliams1285]

Does the CIA send you the whole script or do they send you the key talking points?

[@kacklina]

0:06 finally you are talking about her, I've been wondering for months if we would ever see her on your show.I use to follow Yeonmi Park, I did for years, but things started to get really weird with her speech with each new video. I do think North Korea is a terrible place to be born in, and we should care more about authoritarian and totalitarian countries, I don't know how we, the rest of the world, let them be, but when It comes to North Korea I just follow other defectors, keep with the documentaries, etc. (edit) The second story is absolutely disgusting and devastating.

[@osheridan]

North Korea is a blessing for alt right propagandists. Refugees? Nope, their situation isn't as bad as North Korea so they don't need help. Want free healthcare? Move to North Korea then. It's maddening.

[@gabbyhorton]

I saw one interview with Park. Honestly everything she said was just RED FLAG, her story keeps changing and the fact that she compared going to University to living in North Korea, what the actual F? This woman is just straight up crazy.

[@sallyostling]

She's also landed in privilege. Married a rich American, who I have to imagine is MAGA.

[@sarahpalmer411]

I assumed that the reading she gravitated towards MAGA thinking was because it’s what she grew up with. North Korea conditions citizens not to think, to just accept propaganda as fact. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt.

[@DivadNoodeldehm-lz2gm]

I went to university in America as well. The similarities are there. Left wing extremism, compelled speech, separating people by race and class and delivering patronage to those who are approved, censorship, and the climate of fear. Yeonmi is on to something, and the left hates that she's speaking truth to power.

[@epic7224]

​@@sallyostlingshe was also the 1% in NK, her relatives confirmed it. She prob had a stifled life but she had immense riches and did not go without food. She didn't suffer in the same way the average poor NK person did. But she still did suffer.

[@mikes9939]

Read her books and you will see more. She complained about Columbia Univ. because it was so woke and she realized that they are preaching things that are lies and nonsense. People that come from countries like NK instantly recognize these bad things because they had to live with them. I know several people that have immigrated here from places like that and they all say the same thing. America is in danger from this woke mind virus and worse. They are teaching this trash in places like Columbia U. to young people that are sponges for this nonsense.

[@veronicabraden9441]

The government should have to pay for this guy’s handicap! This is so sad!

[@Fairyfromthehollows]

I agree

[@nithinsub]

The US government should punish the people responsible not only for murdering his friends but also the people that tried to cover it up... The amount of hypocrisy in videos that have mostly US audiences that have no problems calling out human right violations in Ukraine while just brushes off their own govt violations by either pretending that it doesn't exist or it can be rectified with money is just staggering...

[@danielkjm]

If they did they would go bankroupt. Too many were Offed by trigger happy soldiers, there was even a Vice video that showed leaked audio of a Helicopter Crew gunning down civilians chearing and later the gunner said "look how the rats run."

[@Fairyfromthehollows]

@@danielkjm I have relatives that work for vice news and they did go bankrupt. Where are you come in at with this??? I’m confused anyways, I thought this comment was towards Philip DeFranco, because I do not like Philip DeFranco. I actually finally had the guts to unsubscribe to him because that woman that he says is faking it is not and anybody that knows North Korea and how they pay people or threaten peoples lives to dismiss defectors, knows this. I know people that literally have survived coming out in North Korea and they say the same thing she is saying and how dare this man ever say she is lying

[@Fairyfromthehollows]

@@danielkjm hey, I can honestly say I know people that work for vice news that defend this woman not all liberals are idiots

[@SuzannahFarrar]

So you're saying she cannot have two separate Chicago incidents like that? And you're telling me her mother and she weren't brainwashed about North Korea that they were just scared to speak the truth on a south korean tv show? Listen, when you go through so much trauma as a North Korean defector you cannot really think clear but the very fact that she overcame that, learnt English, speaks up for her NK people and you guys are nitpicking on her on top of everything she went through? Where's your empathy? Not everything is for money and clout because when she went down the conservative route she said she was scared and so was her agent. She was already pretty popular and they knew the right wing could make her look bad but still she is tryna warn us about the communist route the country is taking. When you look into it, there are many insights about our country that ring absolutely true to what she says. So yeah, you don't believe her but you believe some random guy on the internet who is exposing ppl for "clout and money"? A little hypocritical don't you think? The second she moves towards the right wing she is a target now. I don't see that as a coincidence at all. There are so many NK defectors who have suffered and nearly died while escaping and they have similar stories. How do you justify that? Stop picking on just one person for political reasons.

[@Alarik52]

Nothing brainwashes better than regular paychecks.

[@palexanderrice]

So wait…..a person that conservatives love, turns out to be a fraud? Shocking

[@idkmang203]

As surprising as the left openly mutilating children and pushing pedo shiii

[@dreamydavidzzz]

I know -- those conservative frauds. They're goona be your daddy too!

[@thanatos454]

If your world view is dependent on denying reality of course you are going to love people who lie to you.

[@nickys5578]

At this point frauding conservatives is looking like a good career path.

[@idkmang203]

@@thanatos454 how am I denying reality?

[@bhoubit]

It is insane how the US is never held accountable for its war crimes

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

Who’s going to lock them up

[@noahgabel7487]

Every country has gotten away with war crimes

[@theinsfrijonds]

They control the world economy, so they’ll never be

[@j.w.213]

you mean the war crimes to countries that want everyone obey or be dead?! I‘m so soo sooo sad!

[@Ammar-pv8wr]

Wonder why police feel so entitled...

[@JordiVanderwaal]

Barakat's story is heartbreaking. And then they wonder why so many people has anti-US sentiment.

[@brandyb2931]

Maybe she meant to say "extradited", because the rest of her sentence she said was "You could be executed with 3 generations of your family to prison." She may have just misspoken. Extradited makes more sense in that sentemce than executed.

[@Eris00i]

Then why haven’t she corrected that mistake then after hearing people question it? She absolutely know what execute means, she have used it at other times. If she misspoke she would have corrected herself since she knows the meaning of the word she accidentally said. She didn’t do that so clearly she meant to say executed.

[@middleagedcouchpotato677]

If people can’t see that ‘woke’ culture (ie: live your life how you want) and North Korea (ie: live your life how I dictate) are completely different, I don’t think they can be reasoned with. It’s quite obvious that the right is just grasping at something we see as bad - North Korea - and attaching ‘woke’ culture to it to make people scared. And it’s super obvious if you’re willing to use your brain. At first I was pretty sure that Yeomi was just not deprogrammed enough to realize it and that it was a shame her story was being co-opted like this. But now I’m realizing she’s just a liar.

[@smokedbeefandcheese4144]

No idea what you’re talking about being woke is just being aware of people being Discriminated against. Basically being aware of the issues in your own country😂 why do you want to be asleep so bad sleepy

[@Gr95dc]

@@smokedbeefandcheese4144 at least read the whole comment before replying

[@JosephKano]

​@@smokedbeefandcheese4144 did you read the right comment? Your take is odd.

[@skyseymour3952]

Current "woke" culture is not "live however you want" it's "Everyone else has to bothvalidate what I'm doing and switch their entire worldview and or lifestyle to accommodate me and if they don't they're a peice of shit" it's nowhere near equivalent to North Korea but it is 100% "live how I dictate"

[@sallyostling]

100%

[@thevilaemina]

Excellent Yeonmi Park coverage and thanks for highlighting that Hasan has been calling this out for years!

[@imberrysandy]

I am recovering from a hangover. Your sunday videos are nice suprises to start the week :) Thank you, phil!

[@Me-mb1ex]

I bought Yeonmi Park's first book and it breaks my heart she's turned out like this. It seems like she feels ashamed over her economic status, like her suffering wasn't enough compared to other defectors so she just started lying and let the lies spin out of control. Dissapointing.😞

[@jeanneann3545]

I kind of could understand why she did it, she's one of the most privileged north korean and even then her education level is probably low, hence she's not a desirable to hire by normal jobs. She escaped and then had to become a clown to survive, maybe she start off honest, but as time goes on she realised there's only so much things she can tell since she herself didn't get such treatment. One of the telltale is that her story never ends. There's only so much horrific things you can experience and tell it so perfectly without emotion, especially if those stories involve real people. She just keep making new stories at some point i wonder how many years she can keep this up. I long stopped watched her years before. Used to defend her when people said she's lying..

[@BeCurieUs]

hmmm, you know, that actually makes a lot of sense. It's like survivors guilt...who knows and I don't know enough about it to speculate anymore, feels wrong.

[@Piaapo]

Yeah. The truth is, a lot of the defectors come from wealthier backgrounds because they simply have the means and tools to escape. It shouldn't be a point of shame. You should just acknowledge it and try to use that power for good.

[@seaofroses8888]

@@jeanneann3545what you said about telling the story without emotion is something I’ve noticed as well. It doesn’t seem normal.

[@Megan9689]

I did too and I agree about your theory.

[@CorrectFossa]

Y’all just now figuring out Park is a liar???

[@drumusic5665]

I came to say the same thing 😂 she has been a joke in my circle for awhile

[@MGC-XIII]

Not really, those Hasan clips are old.

[@shatteredshards8549]

I remember people questioning Yeonmi's story 10 years ago. At this point it's unsurprising that shes found funding with Republicans, they seem to love grifters.

[@shatteredshards8549]

@@WrathofFenrir99 No, I was seeing other DPRK defectors question her. I don't even know half of the people you just listed.

[@shatteredshards8549]

@@WrathofFenrir99 I literally responded by saying I didn't know who half of those people are, and you responded by saying, "see, the left loves grifters, too." When I wrote my original comment, I was thinking about how Oli London is now adored by the far right after getting called out as a grifter by the Asian community years ago. Whatever reason you feel personally attacked over this thread, maybe you should think about it.

[@C.U.N.Tahiti]

@@shatteredshards8549both sides are guilty of lying, but the left is especially infamous for race grifting. Both sides have done some heinous things, and should be equally called out

[@thekamotodragon]

@@Lina.571 just gonna point out that left also has tons of grifters like Hasan and other "activist" groups that take money but don't effect change with it, and whenever you point it out, they get equally defensive.

[@sumayyahadetunmbi4347]

yeah

[@realbirder]

I love Yeonmi Park, she's like a walking avatar for how desperate and guillable the American right are for any bullshit than suits their narrative. No serious person would take anything she says seriously.

[@DivadNoodeldehm-lz2gm]

Have you visited a city run by Democrats lately? Would you like to smell the fresh feces of San Francisco, get shot in Chicago, get mugged in Baltimore, or own a home in Detroit?

[@epic7224]

And the left does the same. It's two sides of the same coin 😅

[@enigmavariations3809]

Thank goodness the gaslighting leftist cult members don't believe any bullshit that suits their narrative.

[@Qwiegybow04]

What's weird about Yeonmi Park is she doesn't even need to lie. All she has to do is start an OF and keep to herself. She'd be fine.

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

Yeh, maybe she’d rather lie. I think most people would.

[@whatdoyousuppose]

I used to follow Yeonmi, even bought her book. I was a “fan” up until around 2019/2020, that’s when I started to notice that she had gotten got by the far right. I felt bad for her, going from one regime to another (obviously can’t conflate the two but still, it’s brainwashing). But it’s sad to say I don’t feel as bad for her anymore because what she’s doing now isn’t out of her control anymore, she has made a conscious CHOICE to be a pick-me for the far right. I can’t feel bad for anyone who chooses to become a grifter. I notice that other defectors seem appalled by her and don’t involve themselves with her anymore and I think that’s for the best. I truly hope she finds peace though, it must be exhausting to live a lie and have to be around people who truly don’t care about you as a person and only care if you’re on the same side they are. Love & light ✌️