Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
ینومی پارک: چهچیزی در مورد آزادی بعد از فرار از کره شمالی یاد گرفتم
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. Full bio
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in the northern part of North Korea,
کره شمالی متولد شدم،
داد و ستدهای غیر قانونی
rice and later copper
برنج و بعدها مس بود
decided to escape.
تصمیم به فرار گرفتیم.
what the word "escape" means
the concept of escape,
from China at night,
در چین در شب ببینم،
که آن نورها هستند برسم،
یا نقشه ای داشته باشیم.
about what was going to happen.
building caught fire.
دچار حریق شده است.
what it feels like to live there.
در آنجا چه حسی دارد.
نمی تواند توصیفش کند،
your life on Mars right now.
در مریخ نمی توانید تصور کنید.
has only one meaning:
of romantic love in North Korea.
در کره شمالی وجود ندارد
understand the concept,
that concept is even a possibility.
که این مفهوم، شدنی است.
is an almighty god
خدای قادر مطلق است
به خاطرما گرسنگی می کشد،
he was actually a dictator,
looking at a picture of him,
به عکسش نگاه می کردم،
that he was fat.
که او چاق است.
critical thinking,
what you're told to see.
که به شما گفته شده ببینید.
inside North Korea?
کره جنوبی اتفاق نمی افتد؟
for 70 years of this oppression?"
you're isolated or oppressed,
مورد ظلم واقع شدید،
اگر بدانید ایزوله هستید،
definition of isolation,
که در کره شمالی بودم
in the center of the universe.
در مرکز دنیا هستم.
what is right and wrong,
درست و چه چیزی غلط است،
justice and injustice,
لیاقت چه چیزی را نداریم.
on the street right now,
روی زمین در حال مرگ ببینم،
and dead on the streets.
خیابان بودن یا مرده بودند.
the concept of compassion.
تعلیم داده نشده بود.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
همدردی و همدلی را در قلبم کردم
"compassion" and the concept,
as a free person.
ایالات متحده زندگی می کنم.
our President Trump,
is not important enough
حقوق بشر به آن مهمی نیست
for executing his uncle,
مورد تشویق قرار می گیرد،
something new about freedom now.
جدیدی درباره آزادی یاد بگیریم.
George Orwell's "1984."
جورج اورول تبدیل شود.
right now who don't have a voice,
اینجا صدایی ندارند
when we are not free?
وقتی ما آزاد نیستیم؟
that we care about climate change,
توجه می کنیم، عالی است،
about animals' rights,
how beautiful our heart is,
who cannot speak for themselves.
که از خود صدایی ندارد.
cannot speak for themselves.
نمی توانند برای خود صحبت کنند.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
تاریکترین نقطه روی زمین است.
to my fellow North Koreans
that an alternative life is possible.
زندگی دیگری هم امکان پذیر است.
every reason to be hopeful.
برای امیدوار بودن را داریم.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yeonmi Park - Human rights activistNorth Korean defector Yeonmi Park is becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world.
Why you should listen
Yeonmi Park's escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, Park became an international phenomenon, delivering passionate and deeply personal speeches about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her address to One Young World on the horrors of detention camps, political executions and sex trafficking has been viewed over 320 million times on YouTube. The BBC named her one of their "Top Global Women."
In 2017, Park joined the Tory Burch Foundation's Embrace Ambition campaign, a global effort to dispel the double standard of ambition as a positive trait in men and a negative trait in women. Her searing memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, was released in the fall 2015, and now she's urging the world to recognize the oppressed people of Kim Jong-Un's reign. She believes that change will come through young people like herself, whose exposure to capitalism and Western media is eroding the authority of the Kim dynasty.
Currently a student at Columbia University, Park has published an op-ed about North Korea's "black market generation” in the Washington Post and has been featured on CNN, CNBC and the BBC, as well as in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She serves on the executive board of directors of the Human Rights Foundation, the world's preeminent organization devoted to disrupting dictatorships.
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