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Must Watch: Mind Blowing Testimonial of a North Korean Defector, Yeonmi Park

I cannot recommend this highly enough.

On Ivy League education in the U.S.: "The mainstream education is purposefully designed now to make you resent Western democracy."

foxnews.com/us/north-korea…

"I expected that I was paying this fortune to learn how to think. But they're forcing you to think the way they want you to think. I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to N Korea that I started worrying." -- Yeonmi Park

Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness.

Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school.

During orientation, she was scolded for admitting she enjoyed classic literature such as Jane Austen.

It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with.

She was also shocked and confused by issues surrounding gender and language, with every class asking students to announce their preferred pronouns.

"English is my third language. I learned it as an adult. I sometimes still say 'he' or 'she' by mistake and now they are going to ask me to call them 'they'? How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?"

"It was chaos," said Yeonmi. "It felt like regression in civilization."

"Even North Korea is not this nuts," she admitted.

After getting into a number of arguments with professors and students, Yeonmi "learned how to just shut up" in order to maintain a good GPA and graduate.

"Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like," said Yeonmi, who by the age of 13 had witnessed people drop dead of starvation right before her eyes.

"These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed. They don't know how hard it is to be free," she admonished.

Park and her mother first fled the oppressive North Korean regime in 2007, when Yeonmi was 13.

After crossing into China over the frozen Yalu River, they fell into the hands of human traffickers who sold them into slavery: Yeonmi for less than $300 and her mother for $100.

With the help of Christian missionaries, the pair managed to flee to Mongolia, walking across the Gobi Desert to eventually find refuge in South Korea.

In 2015 she published her memoir "In Order to Live," where she described what it took to survive in one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships and the harrowing journey to freedom.

"The people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most," the human right activist said.

She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people's ability to think critically.

Just listen to this amazing observation (amazing only because it is so true).

Witnessing the depth of Americans' ignorance up close has made Yeonmi question everything about humanity.

"North Koreans don't have Internet, don't have access to any of these great thinkers. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it."

Having come to America with high hopes and expectations, Yeonmi expressed her disappointment.

"You guys have lost common sense to a degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend," she said.

"Where are we going from here?" she wondered. "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, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise."

The End

P.S. I am much older than Yeonmi and I immigrated to the U.S. when I was about Yeonmi's age. Things were not this crazy back then at all. This utter mindlessness has come about only over the last decade or two. Everything she says totally resonates with me. I feel the same way.