Unreal reading Trump gushing at North Korean dictator "ruling his country hard" while reading abt my friend @YeonmiParkNK's torture at his hands. Hard labor, rape, abuse of power. We spend our time talking abt nuclear threat. What about the people who suffer under Kim Jung Un?!
I met @YeonmiParkNK @ years ago at #OsloFF & started reading her book yesterday (available at: amzn.to/2LG0CqP). Here’s some low-lights:
“There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you can’t care anymore. And that is what hell is like.”-@YeonmiParkNK
“My mother was sentenced to a month of reeducation, which was like a mobile slave labor camp… If anyone was too slow, the group would be forced to run all night without sleep as punishment.. The pace was so grueling some prisoners were near death after a few weeks”-@YeonmiParkNK
“The government encouraged everyone to be resourceful, even doctors… so doctors had to be farmers and had to make their own traditional medicines… even bandages are washed and reused”-@YeonmiParkNK
“In the hard labor camps, only the strongest live long enough to serve out their sentences.” Most never make it out.-@YeonmiParkNK
“I didn’t dare think about why we couldn’t have so many things in North Korea, but I knew I wanted to go where there was light and food.”-@YeonmiParkNK
We all must do more to help the people in North Korea & educate ourselves to hold accountable both leaders to see these atrocities ended once & for all. For more info check out @YeonmiParkNK's op-ed in yesterday's @nytimes nyti.ms/2LJrN3V
