Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea
Ёнми Парк: Как я сбежала из Северной Кореи — и обрела свободу
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,
в северной части Северной Кореи
отправили в трудовой лагерь
rice and later copper
одежду, сахар, рис и позже медь,
decided to escape.
what the word "escape" means
единственным выходом.
the concept of escape,
from China at night,
грандиозного плана или карт.
about what was going to happen.
что нас ждёт в будущем.
building caught fire.
квартире начался пожар.
what it feels like to live there.
your life on Mars right now.
сейчас вашу жизнь на Марсе.
has only one meaning:
имеет только одно значение:
of romantic love in North Korea.
как романтическая любовь.
understand the concept,
that concept is even a possibility.
себе существование этого понятия.
is an almighty god
наш Любимый Вождь это Всемогущий Бог,
he was actually a dictator,
looking at a picture of him,
как смотрела на его фотографию
that he was fat.
в тот факт, что он толстый.
critical thinking,
критическое мышление,
what you're told to see.
что вам приказано видеть.
мне вопрос это:
inside North Korea?
не устроят революцию?
for 70 years of this oppression?"
не было революций?»
you're isolated or oppressed,
в изоляции или вас притесняют,
что вы изолированы,
definition of isolation,
in the center of the universe.
что я в центре вселенной.
достойная распространения:
what is right and wrong,
разницу между хорошо и плохо,
justice and injustice,
и несправедливость,
on the street right now,
умирающего на улице человека,
чтобы спасти этого человека.
and dead on the streets.
и мёртвых людей на улицах.
the concept of compassion.
не учили состраданию.
empathy and sympathy in my heart
эмпатию и симпатию в своём сердце
"compassion" and the concept,
«сострадание» и его значение,
as a free person.
как свободный человек.
our President Trump,
наш Президент Трамп,
is not important enough
это недостаточно важная тема
for executing his uncle,
за казнь его дяди,
something new about freedom now.
прояснить кое-что важное про свободу.
George Orwell's "1984."
в «1984» Джорджа Оруэлла.
за права тех людей,
right now who don't have a voice,
у которых нет голоса,
when we are not free?
когда мы потеряем свободу?
that we care about climate change,
мы заботимся об изменении климата,
about animals' rights,
how beautiful our heart is,
who cannot speak for themselves.
кто не может говорить за себя.
cannot speak for themselves.
не могут говорить за себя.
in the 21st century.
on earth right now.
to my fellow North Koreans
that an alternative life is possible.
что альтернативная жизнь возможна.
every reason to be hopeful.
все основания надеяться на лучшее.
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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