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  • When I was growing up in North Korea, I never saw anything about love stories between men and women.

  • There is no books, no songs, no press, no movies about love stories.

  • There is no Romeo and Juliet.

  • Every story was propaganda to brainwash us about the Kim dictators.

  • A turning point in my life was when I saw the movie Titanic.

  • It was fascinating to me that anyone would make a movie out of such a shameful story.

  • I was wondering if the directors and actors would be killed.

  • By the way I'm really glad that DiCaprio is alive.

  • Actually that is what would happen to anyone who would make a movie about such a shameful story in North Korea.

  • How could they release such a movie?

  • I was so curious.

  • My curiosity didn't end there.

  • When I was growing up in North Korea, the regime told us that dying for the regime was the most honorable thing that anyone could do.

  • When we were young, my sister and I saw a movie showing how beautiful it could be to die for the regime.

  • We were inspired by it, and we pledged we would be willing to die, if necessary, for the Kims.

  • When I was growing up in North Korea, the only story I heard about the outside world

  • was how bad it was, and how lucky we were to be in North Korea.

  • The North Korean regime always tried to convince me to do something for it, to die for it.

  • Controlling what we sing, say, read, listen to, or think what we want.

  • But I realized that Titanic showed me a human story about love, beauty, humanity.

  • It showed me that people could value something for themselves.

  • I was able to connect with the film.

  • It give me a taste of freedom.

  • It wasn't propaganda, but a story about people dying for love.

  • A man, willing to die for a woman.

  • It changed my thinking. It changed the way I saw the regime and their endless propaganda.

  • Titanic made realize that I was controlled by the regime.

  • I was not aware, like a fish is not aware of water.

  • North Koreans are abducted at birth, so they don't know the concept of freedom or human rights.

  • They don't know that they are slaves.

  • I'm 21 years old, and there are many changes going on inside North Korea today.

  • And, it's my generation often called "jangmadang," or "black market generation," that will make change permanent.

  • North Korea's black market generation has three main characteristics.

  • The first characteristic of our black market generation is it has no devotion to the Kim dynasty.

  • I was born in 1993, and Kim Il-sung, the country's founder, he died in 1994.

  • And I was brainwashed to glorify him, and his national self-reliant economic system.

  • But, I have no actual memory of him.

  • The second characteristic of our black market generation is it has had wide access to outside media and information.

  • The private market provided us with more than food and clothing.

  • It provided us DVDs with movies like Titantic, and USBs with Wikipedia.

  • The third characteristic of our black market generation is we are capitalistic and individualistic.

  • We grew up with markets.

  • We experienced selling and buying.

  • I still remember when I was 7 years old, my father told me:

  • "As long as you know how to count money, then you don't have to learn anything from school."

  • When I was 12, I made my first business deal with my mom.

  • She gave me some start-up cash, and I bought rice vodka, which I bribed the orchard guard

  • He allowed me to sell persimmons from that orchard in the market.

  • With the profit, I bought some candy for my mom.

  • And I think it's a very important fact:

  • Once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself.

  • And that's a big threat to the Kim regime.

  • This development of markets is important, because it undermines the "songbun" system,

  • where the regime puts people into strict classes.

  • When the government is in charge of the social classifications and food distribution,

  • it always determines who will acquire wealth, and who will starve.

  • But the private market is removing that from the Kims' control.

  • I escaped North Korea in 2007

  • and I lived as an illegal immigrant in China for more than a year.

  • After my father passed away in China, my mother and I decided to escape to Mongolia.

  • Along with five people in our team, we walked and crawled across the Gobi Desert

  • evading Chinese police, kidnappers, wild animals

  • and into Mongolia, we followed the compass.

  • When that stopped working, we followed the stars to freedom.

  • It seemed that, only the stars were with us.

  • Armed with knives, we were ready to kill ourselves, if we were going to be sent back to North Korea.

  • We begged the Mongolian soldiers who caught us, not to send us back to North Korea.

  • We wanted to live as humans.

  • In 2009, I made it to South Korea.

  • Even though I escaped, I wasn't completely free of the regime's ideology.

  • I still thought the Kims had a special power

  • I even thought Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator, could read my mind.

  • I was not free to think.

  • In 2011, having the freedom to read whatever I wanted, I happen to read a book, Animal Farm.

  • It seemed that George Orwell was talking about North Korea.

  • This book set me free from the emotional dictatorship in my head.

  • It showed me that Kims are dictators, using powers to oppress people

  • And that, North Koreans deserve freedom.

  • I cried all night as i read it.

  • Even now i get goosebumps as i read it.

  • Titanic opened my eyes to see that people can live differently.

  • And that there is something else out there.

  • The black market gave me an opportunity to be exposed to the outside world

  • And Animal Farm set me free from brainwashing.

  • They both symbolize freedom to me.

  • In North Korea the regime says they are so strong

  • but the reality is they are so weak

  • so they can't allow other ideas.

  • As I read it, and even when I read Communist Manifesto,

  • I thought: this is freedom. The freedom to read opposing ideas.

  • Lots of people think change in North Korea is impossible.

  • But they might not realize that huge changes have already happened

  • and they are getting bigger and bigger every day

  • Before the 1990s, the regime's control was total

  • was like water that a fish cannot feel.

  • But increasingly, the regime's propaganda does not match with the reality of people's lives.

  • Everyone knows they have to break the rules by operating in markets to survive.

  • So since the 1990s, the regime's structure of oppression has been a lot more obvious and visible to North Koreans.

  • It's like a cage that you can run up against, but now people are finding ways to go around that structure

  • finding ways to break it and bend it.

  • That's why the North Korean regime's control is unsustainable.

  • The outside media and information are setting us free.

  • The change that I went through is why I'm optimistic that

  • if we can expose North Koreans to the outside world, we can make a difference.

  • I hope that we can work together to make something beautiful happen

  • Everyone has the power to help and support North Koreans.

  • You can help get information inside North Korea and free people's minds.

  • Every day, in China, or elsewhere, thousands of refugees are facing the daily terror of deportation.

  • You can help them escape to freedom.

  • When I was crossing the Gobi Desert, scared of dying

  • I thought nobody in this world cared.

  • It seemed that only the stars were with me.

  • But you have listened to my story.

  • You have cared.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  • Let's do what we can to eliminate the injustice of the Kim regime.

  • Please join me as you make this a global movement to free North Koreans.

  • Thank you very much.

When I was growing up in North Korea, I never saw anything about love stories between men and women.

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樸妍美 - 박연미 - 北韓的黑市時代 (Yeonmi Park - 박연미 - North Korea's Black Market Generation)

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