Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
Yeonmi Park: O que aprendi sobre liberdade depois de escapar da Coreia do Norte
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,
da Coreia do Norte,
para um campo de trabalho
rice and later copper
açúcar, arroz e depois cobre
decided to escape.
what the word "escape" means
o que a palavra "fuga" significa
the concept of escape,
from China at night,
achar uma tigela de arroz.
um grande plano ou mapas.
about what was going to happen.
building caught fire.
para ver o que aconteceria?
what it feels like to live there.
me perguntam como é morar lá.
não podem descrever,
your life on Mars right now.
imaginar a vida em Marte agora.
has only one meaning:
tem apenas um significado:
of romantic love in North Korea.
na Coreia do Norte.
understand the concept,
that concept is even a possibility.
que o conceito é sequer uma possibilidade.
is an almighty god
Querido Líder é um deus todo-poderoso
na Coreia do Norte.
he was actually a dictator,
na verdade, ele era um ditador,
looking at a picture of him,
não estava passando fome.
that he was fat.
me ensinar que ele era gordo.
critical thinking,
what you're told to see.
inside North Korea?
na Coreia do Norte?
for 70 years of this oppression?"
nesses 70 anos dessa opressão?"
you're isolated or oppressed,
definition of isolation,
definição de isolamento,
na Coreia do Norte.
in the center of the universe.
que estava no centro do universo.
que vale a pena ser espalhada.
what is right and wrong,
inerentemente o que é certo e errado,
justice and injustice,
on the street right now,
and dead on the streets.
the concept of compassion.
o conceito de compaixão.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
empatia e simpatia no coração
"compassion" and the concept,
"compaixão" e o conceito dela,
as a free person.
como uma pessoa livre.
our President Trump,
nosso presidente Trump,
is not important enough
não são importantes o suficiente
for executing his uncle,
elogiado por executar o tio,
something new about freedom now.
algo novo sobre liberdade agora.
George Orwell's "1984."
no "1984", de George Orwell.
right now who don't have a voice,
nesse momento e que não têm voz,
when we are not free?
quando não formos livres?
that we care about climate change,
com as mudanças climáticas,
about animals' rights,
com os direitos dos animais
how beautiful our heart is,
who cannot speak for themselves.
que não podem falar por si.
cannot speak for themselves.
falar por si mesmos agora.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
da Terra nesse momento.
to my fellow North Koreans
aos meus colegas norte-coreanos
that an alternative life is possible.
que uma vida alternativa é possível.
every reason to be hopeful.
motivos para ter esperança.
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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