Yeongmi Park, a North Korean defector and author, told Breitbart News on Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual Young Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas, that the hatred of America being taught at universities is worse than the hatred of the North Korean government.
“I came to the U.S. and then studied at Columbia University in New York, and you know what happens at Columbia,” Park said. “At one point, I couldn’t believe I was in a North Korean classroom or an American classroom.”
“Anti-freedom, anti-Western and anti-American sentiment runs very deep. Their hatred for the American Constitution is stronger than that of the North Korean government,” Park continued.
“I couldn’t believe that people were shouting the same ideology that brought suffering to the people of North Korea,” she added.
Park also said that what students want on American college campuses, such as “collectivism, equality of achievement and socialism,” keeps her up at night.
“I live in New York City,” Park said, “and I see my city being destroyed every day, and it’s happening at an incredible pace.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Park said he didn’t know what freedom was until long after he escaped from North Korea.
“When I escaped from North Korea at age 13, I wasn’t looking for freedom, because I didn’t even know what freedom was. I just wanted a bowl of rice,” she said.
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“But after I went to Korea, I started reading George Orwell’s books. 1984 and Animal Farm“It was then that I truly understood what it meant to live under a dictatorship, what freedom was,” Park continued, “and, to be honest, it took me a long time to understand the concept of freedom.”
Park added that he still wakes up with nightmares of being arrested and executed in North Korea.
“We are physically free now, but we are troubled by the North Korean regime. We are currently receiving a lot of threats from Kim Jong Un’s regime,” she said.
Park also said: While time’s up: North Korean defectors seeking freedom in America and To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom.
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