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From her appearance on the scene in late 2014—with an emotional speech at the One Young World Summit in Dublin that went viral on You Tube—Yeonmi Park has managed to stir a surprising amount of controversy. Early coverage in The Diplomat by Mary Ann Joley ( here) and John Power ( here) —the latter citing critics such as Michael Bassett and Felix Abt—focused on the consistency of the narrative. These details even included basics such as who in the family escaped when and what she actually witnessed in North Korea (dead bodies in streets, rivers and the courtyards of hospitals; public executions). Park's second book While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America (2023) included a forward written by the conservative commentator Jordan Peterson. [3] It was published in the United States by a "conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster", according to The Washington Post, [3] which says it contains allegations of censorship and cancel culture on American college campuses, "warning that America is on the verge of liberal dictatorship". [3] It has sold over 130,000 copies as of June 2023. [1] a b Cussen, John (15 September 2016). "On the Call to Dismiss North Korean Defectors' Memoirs and on Their Dark American Alternative". Korean Studies. University of Hawaii Press. 40 (1): 140–157. doi: 10.1353/ks.2016.0005. ISSN 1529-1529. S2CID 163985007– via Project MUSE.
One of the very few growing industries in North Korea is this operation of trying to compromise defectors and witnesses’ ... the leader, Kim Yong-un and military chiefs. Photograph: Yao Dawei/AP Photo/Xinhua
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Power, John (21 January 2015). "Celebrated Korean gulag defector changes story. Does that change the truth?". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729 . Retrieved 18 December 2020.
Gupta, Priyanka (15 October 2014). "Escaping North Korea: one refugee's story". Al Jazeera . Retrieved 13 May 2017.Miller, Barbara (4 September 2017). "North Korean defector stories find home in the South on reality TV show". ABC News.
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