In this episode of War Room, we are joined by Yonmi Park, a defector from North Korea who defected from the North Korean regime and now lives in the United States. She shares her story of coming to the land of freedom and how she ended up in North Korea.
00:05:22.800you know me explain to our audience i mean how the and it's beyond oppression it's almost a
00:05:29.360concentration camp of the daily lived experience of the north koreans under that dictator to come to
00:05:36.960the united states which i imagine you you think is like the the bastion of freedom and understand it's not
00:05:41.920freedom right walk us through that walk us through life in north korea to to what you anticipated life
00:05:47.360in america was going to be like yeah uh i still remember being born in north korea i was the first
00:05:55.360thing i had to do was go bow down in front of the kim's uh portraits in every household and when i go to
00:06:03.360school my school teacher would tell me that the most important father that i had was not my biological
00:06:09.120father or parents it was my dear leader and then i had to sing this song something called nothing to
00:06:16.000envy because we are living in the socialist paradise how can we possibly something to envy in the world
00:06:22.240however on the streets everywhere there were dead bodies and tippers organs would like just come out
00:06:28.960of them because when you're so malnourished or uh your body part is open up and then this was our life and
00:06:37.840i still had no idea though like i was living in a hermit kingdom in a most oppressed nation because that
00:06:44.320word was not uh given to northern people to describe our situation like we didn't have the word for
00:06:50.720individual liberty human rights oppression or love so i i just completely left there just isolated and
00:07:00.400not knowing that i was a slave to a dictator
00:07:06.480yonmi what having gone to one of the top universities in this nation in in in the world
00:07:12.320and seeing the oppression there what would be your warning to the american people
00:07:17.280i think that's when i got to colombia i could not believe that somehow not having a problem is
00:07:25.440actual problem they were making injustice out of in here they're making problem out of nowhere
00:07:33.600the injustice oppression they were describing to me is like they have a thousand pronouns and somehow i
00:07:40.800cannot catch up with their speed and my english is my third language and i could not incorporate
00:07:46.560day in my sentences as well and they would come in tears and telling me how i make them unsafe
00:07:54.080because colombia is all about having a safe space emotional safe space and then their oppression i asked
00:08:01.200them like what is it america that you hate so much that you want to destroy this country and they were
00:08:06.960telling me that we have inequality in america i mean i was thinking inequality is a sign of mobility a sign of
00:08:15.360progress people can rise and we can get rewarded for the hard work in north korea we are equal
00:08:22.320but we are all starving and we are dying from most basic needs so the enemy is poverty not inequality
00:08:30.880but colombia play like professors brainwashes to think that somehow the worst thing in the world is inequality
00:08:36.880you know me did did the professors or the students there have any real interest in finding out your lived experience in korea and the north korean people as far as living in essentially a concentration camp ma'am
00:08:52.480yes so i actually been in the classes i did try to speak out several times and one of the professor at senior seminar literally was telling us that how somehow there's no difference between men and women
00:09:03.840and that's when i just actually became a new mom it's like i told her like there is an actual difference between men and women
00:09:10.800i have you know uterus i have like eggs i can't carry a child and she was saying oh you are brainwashed and then my classmates will tell me that i have no right i cannot understand oppression
00:09:24.800oppression because i'm a white passing person they don't care that i was sold as a sex slave at 13 for
00:09:32.48020 dollars they don't care that i had to walk across the frozen gobby desert to come to
00:09:38.080like freedom unlike them just born here without paying any price for freedom they would just shut me down
00:09:43.760because my skin color was unfortunately not a black and if your skin color is not black you cannot possibly
00:09:50.800understand oppression and that's how they shut me down by telling me that i'm a white passing person
00:09:59.440you know me are you going to give any talks or lectures how do people where do they go on your
00:10:03.920social media how did they get the book but more importantly i want people to be able to meet you
00:10:08.320and and to find you are you going to be going out and giving a speaking tour are you giving lectures
00:10:12.960anywhere because uh when people meet you in in person i think they'll be incredibly blown away and the
00:10:18.160story is an incredible story that tell america what's actually going on in our country from the
00:10:24.160eyes of somebody that lived in a concentration camp so how do people get to you well they can't find me
00:10:30.080on amazon i mean they can find a book on amazon or buyers and numbers and they can find me on twitter
00:10:35.920as yummy park nk uh i will be going on a lot of campus tours but uh schedules and i'm not like certain
00:10:43.040right now but they can definitely reach me out there and then find my speaking tours in person
00:10:48.720they can come find me and once again where can people just let's give that site again where can
00:10:55.040people go to find the tours because i want as many people to see you in person as possible and to meet
00:10:59.680you uh they will be able to find on my youtube channel young me park uh voice of north korea by
00:11:06.640any park there i will be sharing my speaking schedules with everyone
00:11:13.760honored to have you on here good luck with the book we'll push it hard so thank you man appreciate
00:30:12.320You have no right hope, you have no equal, now and forever God you reign.
00:30:28.460Yours is the kingdom, yours is the glory, yours is the name above all men.
00:30:43.460What about the name it is, what about the name it is, the name of Jesus Christ our King.
00:30:58.460What about the name it is, nothing can stand against, what about the name it is, the name of Jesus Christ our King.
00:31:11.900We're going to go, that is from Ashbury University, this revival, the Holy Spirit out in Wellmore, Kentucky.
00:31:19.300We have our own Noah Benjamin out there. Noah, give us an update, exactly what's going on out there, sir.
00:31:24.860Hey, Mr. Steve. I'm here in Ashbury University this morning. It is ice cold and the people are on fire, Mr. Steve.
00:31:34.680As you can see right behind me, this is the chapel where the students are holding the revival service for the past nine days, non-stop.
00:31:44.780And I think the students are on fire, the community is on fire, they're excited for what the Lord is doing in this town.
00:31:52.300And they're so expectant of what God is going to do in the next couple different cities that are going to experience God's over-rolling power.
00:32:00.360Noah, explain to the audience, how did this start and how did it catch fire with going 24 hours a day for the last nine days?
00:32:09.960How did it get started and how has it been building momentum?
00:32:15.080Steve, this is a Christian university. The students have regular chapel services on campus weekly.
00:32:21.220This started last week, just at the end of a chapel service, where students stayed after the service and continued in the presence of the Lord.
00:32:31.980And that ignited a fervent for prayer, continued prayer and worship with the students.
00:32:38.840And then as word spread around the United States with social media and all things, the Internet, people have been flying out of the state, out of the country to experience what God has done here.
00:32:51.540And I think it's a really powerful state.
00:32:55.780You're saying people are coming from around the country and from outside the country to come there.
00:33:00.800You had on Twitter the other day that this was inspired and it had the presence of the Holy Spirit.
00:33:08.840Sir, as a believer, we all know that the Holy Spirit is God's divine spirit that's indwelling in his people.
00:33:19.040And it's what's in the hearts of minds of all believers.
00:33:23.000And his outpouring of the Holy Spirit is his presence that invades people's atmosphere when you go further into the Lord and worship in spirit and truth.
00:33:34.180And that's what people are experiencing.
00:33:35.380It's the outpouring of God's love for his people, just his genuine response to the unashamed love and admiration for the Lord as they worship him.
00:33:52.160So as people run to the Father, the Father runs to his children and embraces them with the Holy Spirit.
00:33:56.920And that's probably the best I can explain to you.
00:34:27.560The faculty has been very supportive of the students and they are making sure they're getting food and water to drink, make sure they're rested and they're still attending classes.
00:34:40.600This campus, there's been rumors of the campus canceling classes for the whole week, which is not true.
00:34:46.120We spoke to the communications director here and she said, nope, this is still going to go on.
00:34:51.420The kids are still going to go to class, but they're empowering the students to stay plugged in into the Lord.
00:34:57.300Noah, how do people get to you on social media today?
00:35:02.500We're going to check back in with you live at five o'clock, but I want to make sure people can follow you and your wife as you're there with these kids in Ashbury University.
00:35:47.760Well, you know, in a culture that is bereft of any religion or mention of God and has become so secular, it's great to see young people embrace the faith because the battle ahead in this aggressively secular culture that we have is going to get brutal.
00:36:07.780It is going to be weaponized against all people of faith.
00:36:11.880And so any effort to really embrace the spirit and to understand the importance of having religion as the basis, which it was the basis of our country.
00:36:26.400Dissenters from, you know, persecuted Christian countries were coming to America for religious freedom.
00:36:34.920And – but I think especially now when we see our secular government coming after all religious groups, that it's important to see young people embrace their faith.
00:36:51.100Liz, you know, we've got the weaponization of, you know, government panel.
00:37:06.560You saw the initial things with big tech, but it's going to go much deeper than that.
00:37:10.640One of the things they're going to get into is turning – you know, calling parents domestic terrorists for going to school boards.
00:37:18.460The other thing they're going to get into is the situation at the abortion clinics with people like Houck in Pennsylvania and the folks down in Tennessee that were praying the rosary.
00:37:41.280Remember, this memo that came out of the Richmond office about the targeting – actually, an analysis the FBI was doing about the targeting of traditional Latin mass Catholics as being potential domestic terrorists.
00:37:55.380Walk us through that because that's even more insidious than the parents as domestic terrorists, as bad as that is.
00:38:02.640It's terrible, arresting people at the – you know, with the guns up from the – at the abortion clinics.
00:38:10.020But to actually have FBI personnel changing memos and sending reports out, memos of saying, hey, these – the hobbits of the hobbits.
00:38:18.940I mean this is like the – this is the Catholic equivalent of East Palestine, Ohio.
00:38:34.340As a lawyer, I always do timelines, and there are no coincidences.
00:38:38.200This memo was written when Mark Hawke was on trial with his phony federal charges, charges that were eventually, thank God, he was acquitted by a jury of his peers.
00:38:50.160But this memo came out at the same time, the government was spending thousands of dollars to prosecute a traditional Catholic father of seven on charges that he was violating the FACE Act.
00:39:07.960And thank God for Kyle, the whistleblower, who really did expose this, the radical traditional Catholics, as they're called in this memo, are espousing, quote, more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.
00:39:26.620And the FBI analyst is drawing from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center to demonstrate the danger of radical traditional Catholics who attend the Latin Mass.
00:39:41.600And their ideology in this memo is saying is almost certainly presents opportunities for the FBI for threat mitigation through, and get this, folks, exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.
00:40:30.920And, you know, interestingly, the SPLC has been discredited by its own donors, by its own employees.
00:40:38.580And yet the FBI is using this rank, poorly sourced, really just juvenile, but threatening memo to attack white extremists linking to traditional Catholics.
00:40:54.360So this is about, you remember, Steve, last time I was on the show, I think, talking about the Lanik article saying that the rosary is equivalent to AR-15s, remember?
00:41:05.180So this is, they're ramping up not only the prosecutions with the Mark Hauk case, but also using intelligence to demonstrate that they're going after the most peace-loving, faithful Catholics and citizens of our country.
00:41:26.500The Justice Department, hang on, the Justice Department, the FBI, the administrative state, the enforcement arm of the administrative state, are they at war?
00:41:35.820When you see them going after parents, right, as domestic terrorists that are trying to protect their family, and now they're going after established religion of the deplorables.
00:41:45.660Is the administrative state at war, at war with the citizens of this country at the most basic level, at the family, at parental rights, and at traditional religion, ma'am?
00:41:58.040Well, Steve, two days after this memo, a letter came out from 20 state attorney generals saying the very same thing that you're saying.
00:42:06.440And in this letter, I mean, this was, I've never seen a more powerful letter written.
00:43:14.380There's no conspiracies, but there's no coincidences.
00:43:17.720My parents helped start in Richmond, Virginia, that Latin mass, traditional Latin mass back in the 1980s, late 70s, early 80s, when the church allowed it again.
00:43:27.200They know what they're doing, and we're going to stop them, and we're going to destroy them.
00:43:59.720After I've stolen the title, borrowed against it, or sold the property, it's 60 to 90 days for that person to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.
00:46:39.600Both are up on my website at yourchildren.com.
00:46:43.080I would urge people to read both very closely.
00:46:47.300Finally, every bishop, every pastor should download the AG's letter, the four-page AG letter.
00:46:54.560It's a throwdown, and it really does lay out the rights of Catholics, the rights of Christians in America.
00:47:02.580You need to have this on your desk in case, you know, the SEAL Team 6 comes knocking at your door like they did at Mark Hawk's home.
00:47:11.440So this is time to really band together, pay attention to what our rights are, and to call out any misconduct, misbehavior, and weaponization of our law enforcement, both federal and state, against religious freedom.
00:48:07.340You said it was going to be a trillion.
00:48:08.820Also, Milley expects a negotiated deal.
00:48:11.700Did not the former prime minister of Israel, who was in the middle of this thing, trying to negotiate a deal at the end, he said they could have had that deal in the first week of the war.
00:48:19.440So we've lost, what, 200,000 Russian troops, 100,000 Ukrainian troops, 50,000 women, children, and men civilians, all in a year for what, Ben Harnwell?
00:48:32.300Milley, who wanted, you know, complete battlefield victory, is now saying it's going to be a negotiated deal.
00:48:36.740The exact same deal you would have gotten in the first week of this, Ben Harnwell.
00:48:40.320Well, Steve, sadly, if Natalie Bennett, the then Israeli prime minister, had succeeded in negotiating that ceasefire, the tragedy for our sociopathic overlords is that they would not have made hundreds of billions through the military industrial complex.
00:49:00.940And they would have missed out on the great boon of just a little shy of a trillion dollars for rebuilding Ukraine.
00:49:08.140So, sadly, for the people of Ukraine, it was necessary for this war to continue.
00:49:15.680And I have to say, it's not a victory lap.
00:49:18.680The war room, right at the time when we were watching the moves, we said that a ceasefire will be negotiated by one of two countries.
00:49:26.660It will either be Israel or it will be Turkey.
00:49:29.240And we watched as outsiders peering into the window at the moves.
00:49:34.280And we said, this is what's likely to happen.
00:49:36.700And I think we were one of the few voices who were speculating on that.
00:49:41.320We did not know at the time, of course, we know now, because it was just like two weeks ago when Natalie Bennett said that he had actually succeeded in brokering a peace before the United States came in and said no.
00:49:55.020We didn't know at the time how far and how successful those talks had been.
00:49:59.440But it's pretty good, I think, thumbs up to the war room's analysis.
00:50:04.700In the closing minute, Steve, I will simply say what the terms of that ceasefire were, because it is exactly what we were speculating back a year ago.
00:50:16.540And we're talking about events here in March 2022.
00:50:20.560So Russia, Putin, had agreed to drop the denazification of Ukraine condition, which was basically the removal of Zelensky.
00:50:33.460And they wouldn't push either for the demilitarization of Ukraine.
00:50:39.840And on the other side, on the Ukrainian side, they said that they were prepared to renounce NATO membership, which, according to Natalie Bennett, was the real reason for Russia's invasion.
00:50:56.800There we are. And pretty much, I think, that will be the terms of the eventual negotiated peace.
00:51:05.660Obviously, the difference between March 2022 and whenever this peace will be negotiated will be the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who've been killed, whole cities destroyed.
00:51:18.120The damage, not that this is of primary importance, but it is still massively important to the global economy.
00:51:28.58014 million refugees left Ukraine throughout Europe.
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