Yeonmi Park: North Korea | Lex Fridman Podcast #196

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Live. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:58 - Growing up in North Korea
9:22 - Animal Farm
15:37 - Search for meaning
20:25 - Love
22:42 - Language
27:06 - Yeonmi's dad
29:07 - Escaping North Korea
34:24 - The world is ignoring the genocide in North Korea
46:26 - Evil
49:17 - Nuclear war
50:07 - Marxist origins of North Korea
55:20 - Famine
1:00:07 - Kim Jong-un is pure evil
1:06:43 - Freedom
1:09:55 - Michael Malice
1:13:35 - Diversity
1:20:55 - Political correctness
1:30:27 - Jordan Peterson
1:34:39 - Michael Malice book on North Korea
1:40:08 - Advice for young people
1:43:10 - Facing assassination
1:53:25 - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
1:55:57 - Meaning of life

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