North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park’s Escape From ‘Evil’ — and America’s Political Left

The things Columbia University professors are telling their students are ‘almost identical to things that North Korean teachers taught us in North Korean classrooms.’

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North Korean defector Yeonmi Park. The New York Sun
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

To the protesters on college campuses who have been chanting “Death to America” and “We are Hamas,” a North Korean defector and alumna of Columbia University, Yeonmi Park, has a message: “you don’t need to even destroy America. You can just go to North Korea or go to Palestine, whatever the paradise they describe is,” she tells the Sun. “If you genuinely believe America is that evil, you would do whatever it takes to escape from America.”

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