2023-06-23 05:39:33
Park Yeon-mi, a North Korean defector and human rights activist who gained attention for exposing the reality of North Korea. [사진출처 = 박연미 인스타그램]
The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 22nd (local time) that Park Yeon-mi (29), a North Korean refugee-born human rights activist who drew attention by vividly testifying to the realities of North Korea on the international stage, has emerged as a right-wing media ‘star’ who snipers the American progressive camp. .
The NYT shed light on Park’s recent activities in an article titled ‘North Korean dissident who turned to the US right wing’.
According to the NYT, he graduated from Columbia University in the US three years ago and obtained US citizenship. He is also active by appearing on conservative TV shows and various events.
Park, who has been working as a contributor to the American youth conservative group ‘Turning Point USA’ since the spring of this year, receives $6,600 (8.6 million won) a month from this civic group and conducts political events in New York and other places around Marjorie Taylor, the representative of far-right conspiracy theories. Standing on the podium alongside Republican Representative Green.
Last month, he appeared on Fox News and became a hot topic by claiming that “Columbia’s educational method of forcing ‘political correctness’ is exactly the same as the North Korean regime’s method of brainwashing the people.”
“I think this is the biggest threat facing our country and our civilization,” he said, saying that American educational institutions are trying to indoctrinate leftist ideology.
Park Yeon-mi, a human rights activist who defected from North Korea, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Association in Hong Kong. [사진출처 = EPA 연합뉴스]
On the other hand, the progressive camp, which helped Park in his activities during the Trump administration, which was not interested in North Korean human rights, seemed perplexed.
In response, the NYT reported that the publishing world and academics began to point out that Park’s experience of defecting from North Korea and what he experienced in the United States are inconsistent or exaggerated.
“My political orientation is not as stout as the media portrays it,” he said. “I support gay marriage, I am socially liberal, and I have never considered myself conservative.”
Born in Yanggang Province, North Korea, Park escaped from North Korea with her mother in 2007 at the age of 13, passed through China and Mongolia, and set foot on South Korean soil in two years. Since then, through her broadcast appearances, she has earned nicknames such as ‘North Korean defector beauty’ and ‘North Korean defector college student,’ and has made her face known. In 2014, she attended the ‘World Young Leaders Conference’ held in Dublin, Ireland, where she and human rights violations.
At the time, he shocked the world by sobbing and revealing that his mother had been raped by a North Korean defector broker and that he had been sold to a Chinese ‘husband’. The British BBC also selected Park as one of the ‘100 Women of the Year’ in the same year.
Afterwards, Park published a memoir, ‘If You Know What I Saw’.
In addition, he was invited by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and became a hot topic by standing on the same stage as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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