Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
Yeonmi Park: O que eu aprendi sobre a liberdade ao fugir 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,
na parte norte da Coreia do Norte,
para um campo de trabalho forçado
rice and later copper
arroz e mais tarde cobre
decided to escape.
decidimos fugir.
what the word "escape" means
o que a palavra "fugir" significa,
the concept of escape,
o conceito de fuga,
from China at night,
se fosse ao encontro da luz,
uma tigela de arroz.
um grande plano ou mapas.
about what was going to happen.
building caught fire.
o vosso prédio se incendeia.
what it feels like to live there.
me perguntam como é viver lá.
consegue descrever,
completamente diferente,
your life on Mars right now.
a vossa vida em Marte neste momento.
has only one meaning:
tem apenas um significado:
de amor romântico na Coreia do Norte.
of romantic love in North Korea.
understand the concept,
compreendem o conceito,
que esse conceito é uma possibilidade.
that concept is even a possibility.
is an almighty god
era um Deus todo-poderoso
na Coreia do Norte.
a passar fome por nós,
incansavelmente para nós,
he was actually a dictator,
que ele era um ditador,
looking at a picture of him,
de ver uma fotografia dele,
não estava a passar fome.
that he was fat.
que ele era gordo.
o pensamento crítico,
critical thinking,
what you're told to see.
que as pessoas me fazem é:
inside North Korea?
na Coreia do Norte?
for 70 years of this oppression?"
nos 70 anos desta opressão?"
you're isolated or oppressed,
isolados ou oprimidos,
definition of isolation,
definição de isolamento,
quando estava na Coreia do Norte.
in the center of the universe.
no centro do Universo.
que vale a pena divulgar:
what is right and wrong,
o que está certo e o que está errado,
justice and injustice,
on the street right now,
na rua neste momento,
para salvar aquela pessoa.
and dead on the streets.
e mortos nas ruas
the concept of compassion.
o conceito de compaixão.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
empatia e simpatia no meu coração
"compaixão" e o conceito,
"compassion" and the concept,
as a free person.
como uma pessoa livre.
our President Trump,
o nosso presidente Trump,
is not important enough
não são importantes o suficiente
por executar o seu tio,
for executing his uncle,
something new about freedom now.
algo novo sobre a liberdade neste momento.
no "1984" de George Orwell.
George Orwell's "1984."
neste momento, que não têm uma voz,
right now who don't have a voice,
quando não formos livres?
when we are not free?
preocuparmo-nos com a alteração climática,
that we care about climate change,
a igualdade de género,
com os direitos dos animais,
about animals' rights,
how beautiful our heart is,
who cannot speak for themselves.
que não pode falar por si próprio.
cannot speak for themselves.
não podem falar por si próprios.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
na Terra neste momento.
aos meus compatriotas norte-coreanos
to my fellow North Koreans
that an alternative life is possible.
que é possível uma vida alternativa.
todas as razões para termos esperança.
every reason to be hopeful.
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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