By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:55 EDT, 14 June 2021 | UPDATED: 06:44 EDT,
15TH June 2021
Many of the classes at Columbia, she said, would teach the students about
how white men have ruined everything, despite leaders like Mao Zedong
killing political dissidents.
‘Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like’ Yeonmi Park
said, adding that she saw people dying of starvation by the time she was 13.
‘These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they’ve experienced,’ Park said of her fellow students. ‘They don’t know how hard it
is to be free.’
‘I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free,’ she continued, ‘but what I did was nothing – so many people fought harder
than me and didn’t make it.’
Yeonmi Park is a strong and courageous woman who shows the world that anyone can overcome any barrier that stands in their way.
Yeonmi Park was born in the North Korean city of Hyesan, close to the Chinese border, and brought up in the brutal and paranoid atmosphere
of the Kim dictatorships.
But, she said, here in America people ‘are just dying to give their rights and power to the government.
‘That is what scares me the most,’ she said, adding: ‘Power can corrupt,
that’s just the nature of power.’
In an interview with FOX News, Yeonmi said she saw similarities between her homeland of North Korea and American educational institutions.
‘North Korea was crazy, but not this crazy’: Columbia student, 27,
who escaped Stalinist dictatorship warns wokeism is stifling freedom
of speech at US universities just like in her homeland.
– Park and her mother fled North Korea to China over the frozen Yalu River in 2007 when she was just 13-years-old.
– From there, the two were sold into slavery by human traffickers, but were ultimately rescued by Christian missionaries who helped them flee to Mongolia.
– They trekked across the Gobi Desert to find refuge in South Korea, where Park went to school until she transferred to Columbia University in 2016.
– She said she was expecting to learn how to think critically but instead was ‘force to think the way they want you to think.’
– She also said she was confused by people claiming they were oppressed when they went to the half-million dollar school.
A woman who fled North Korea when she was a teenager and is now
attending Columbia University said she is seeing a lot of similarities
between the totalitarian regime she grew up in and the education she
is now receiving in the United States.
Yeonmi Park and her mother fled North Korea to China over the frozen
Yalu River in 2007, when she was just 13, and the two were sold into
slavery by human traffickers.
They were ultimately able to flee to Mongolia with the help of Christian missionaries and trekked across the Gobi Desert to eventually find refuge in South Korea, where Park, now 27, attended college before transferring
to Columbia in 2016.
‘I literally crossed the Gobi Desert to be free and I realized I’m not free, America’s not free,’ she said.
‘I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy to learn
how to think,’ she told FOX News. ‘But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think.’
‘I realized, ‘Wow, this is insane,” she recounted, ‘I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that
I started worrying.’
Park said that her professors would give them ‘trigger warnings’ and allow them to opt out of readings and discussions.
‘Going to Columbia, the first thing I learned was ‘safe space,” she told the
New York Post.
She explained that when she started school at Columbia, she was excited to learn more about history, a subject she said was discouraged in her homeland.
But when her teacher, discussing Western Civilization, asked if students had an issue with the name of the class topic, most did, saying there was a ‘colonial’ slant.
‘Every problem, they explained to us, is because of white men,” she said, reminding her of her home country where people were categorized based
on their ancestors, according to the Post.
During her orientation, a professor asked the class who liked classical books, like Jane Austen. ‘I said, ‘I love those books,’ Park said in an interview with FOX News. ‘I thought it was a good thing.’ ‘Then she said, ‘Did you know
those writers had a colonial mindset?
They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’
From there, she said, her classes were filled with ‘anti-American sentiment, reminding her of her childhood in North Korea, where students were constantly taught about the ‘American bastard,’ which was the only way they were allowed to refer to Americans.
‘The math problems would say: “There are four American bastards, you kill
two of them, how many American bastards are left to kill?,” Park recounted, saying 7-year-olds in North Korea would have to respond with ‘two American bastards’ to that question.
‘I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but it turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country,’ she said.
She said she was also confused by students’ use of ‘preferred pronouns.’
‘English is my third language – I learned it as an adult,’ said Park, who published a memoir about her time in North Korea in 2015.
‘I sometimes still say ‘he’ or ‘she’ by mistake,’ she said, noting that she is not trying to be disrespectful to her colleagues, ‘and now they are going to ask me to call them ‘they.’
How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?’
‘It felt the regression in civilization,’ she said.
Eventually, she said she ‘learned how to just shut up’ so she could get good grades and graduate, but, she said, ‘Even North Korea is not this nuts.’
‘North Korea was pretty crazy,’ she said, ‘but not this crazy.’
‘I don’t know why people are collectively going crazy like this or together
at the same time.’
‘In North Korea, I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving,’
Park said, referring to Kim Jong Un.
‘He’s the fattest guy – how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said ‘Look at him, he’s the fattest guy. Other people
are all thin.’ And I was like ‘Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?’ Because I never learned how to think critically.’
‘That is what is happening in America,’ Park concluded. ‘People see things,
but they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.’
She said she did not understand how that could happen in the United States.
‘North Koreans, we don’t have the Internet, we don’t have access to any of these great thinkers, we don’t know anything,’ she said. ‘But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it.’
‘You guys have lost common sense to a degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend.’
Now, she says, she fears America is going to become like North Korea.
‘Where are we going from here?’ she asked, rhetorically. ‘The future of our country’s as bleak as North Korea’s if we do not rise up right now.’
‘There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore,
it’s complete chaos.
‘I guess that’s what they want,’ she said,’ to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a communist paradise.’
In her memoir, In Order to Live, Park warned that Americans were censoring and silencing each other through canceled culture.
‘Voluntarily, these people are censoring each other, silencing each other,
no force behind it,’ she said.
‘Other times (in history) there’s a military coup d’etat, like a force comes in taking your rights away and silencing you. But this country is choosing to be silenced, choosing to give their rights away.’
Read more:
Columbia student who escaped North Korea says she sees similarities in the US | Daily Mail Online
North Korean defector says ‘even North Korea was not this nuts’ after attending Ivy League school | Fox News
North Korean defector slams ‘woke’ US schools
Lest anyone forget that everything including all of the laws in the Old Testament!
Point to the message of the cross in the New Testament. Jesus fulfilled all 613 rules of that obsolete Mosaic Law (or Torah) which includes the Ten Commandments brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses as well as everything mentioned by the O.T. prophets (Matthew 5:17-20 — He didn’t ABOLISH any of it but rather FULFILLED all of it.
See John 1:17, Ephesians 2:14-18, 2 Corinthians 3:4-11, Hebrews 7:18-19, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 8:13 and Hebrews 13:9.).)
It’s only The Holy Spirit Who can guide into all truth (John 14:26, John 16:13, 1 Corinthians 3:5-9).
Apart from the law, sin is dead (Romans 7:8, Galatians 2:16).
Simply rejecting Jesus (Judaism) or trying to blend Mosaic Law and Calvary (Hebrew Roots Movement) are in themselves causing people to sin despite trying to do something about a sin problem. Interesting how in John 12:32 Jesus said He will draw all men to Himself when He is lifted up from the earth, then fast forward 7 chapters to John 19:30 when He said, “It is finished,” making forgiveness possible.
THAT’s when the A.D. Era began, not where your Bible says “THE NEW TESTAMENT” (see Matthew 4:4 for more information).
That “whosoever will” principle in John 3:16-17, John 5:24 and Romans 10:13 is self-explanatory.
One is either in Jesus (100% forgiven – “Sheep”) or in Adam 0% forgiven – “Goats”). There is no such thing as a “Geep”: No one is ever “50% forgiven”. Both testaments are blood economies but this new one is permanent. There will never again be another Calvary. No need. It was effective the first time. (Also see John 6:29, and John 6:29.1 and John 6:29-1 and John 3:23 and John 3:23-24 and John 3:23-1 and John 5:6-12 for more information.)
Good morning dear brothers & sisters: It is so wonderful to know that we have left Egypt (the world) behind us, and are passed the journey of our wondering in the wilderness, and have entered into the good land, flowing with milk and honey, which represents Christ to us, in all that He is to us, and in all that He has done for us, is doing and will do for us, so that we are supplied with Christ as the Spirit, within all that we need to fully capture all the enemies in our daily battles, so as to gain the Christ of God, the good land, flowing with milk and honey! Our Lord Jesus Christ not only goes before us in our battles, but also goes with us to fight for us against our enemies, in order to save us unto a full and an eternal salvation! He truly is the Captain of our salvation. …
“When you go forth into battle against your enemies, and you see horse and chariot, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for the Lord your God is with you, He who has brought you up out of the land of Egypt. (2) And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall approach and speak to the people, (3) And he shall say to them, Hear, O Israel! (Hear, O church of the Living God.)
You are drawing near to the battle against your enemies today. … (This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it, for He is our Victorious Captain, leading us on to victory!) … Do not let your heart fail; do not be afraid or alarmed or terrified of them. (4) For it is the Lord your God who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” (Deuteronomy 20:1-4) …
Have a blessed day and week ahead of you; for it is the Lord your God who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save you! … Glory! Hallelujah! Thank You Lord Jesus! Praise You, O Lord, our Captain and Savior God! Amen! ✝
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