Yeonmi Park Speech: In Search of Freedom
Learn English with Yeonmi Park. Yeonmi courageously shared her life story on the One Young World stage in Dublin in front of world leaders, international media, and over 1,300 changemakers from all countries around the globe. She emotionally talks about her story of life in North Korea and calls for action against such human rights violators. Park Yeon-mi is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who escaped from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014. In this speech, she also quotes: “No human deserves to be oppressed just because of their birthplace.” – Watch with big English subtitles.