While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
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The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.
After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.
In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.
Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.
The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.
After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.
In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.
Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.
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“Happiness is…nothing other than a synonym for love and gratitude. Happiness is not material success or recognition or even comfort. It’s becoming a parent, being a good daughter, being a good friend, and lending a helping hand to anyone less fortunate.”
“Using your own talents and achievements to benefit others is one of the hallmarks of living a good, responsible, and rewarding life…These people are modern-day freedom fighters, who stand up to the forces of authoritarianism they see in their communities and society, and see it as their calling to set a good example to others of a free life well lived…individuals who are smart, driven, and capable enough to be living lavish lives of success in the corporate world, but who decide instead to dedicate their lives to fighting for freedom.”
“We cannot make it to freedom ourselves only to pull up the drawbridge and regard everyone we left behind as on their own. We owe it to them to tell the world what they’re going through…Real change has to happen through mutual education and engagement among lots of ordinary people.” The single most effective thing you can do is to “spread the word about the modern-day holocaust taking place in North Korea” and the modern-day slave trade of “the tens and even thousands of mostly female North Korean defectors…being sold, raped, and otherwise harmed in China.”
When asked what kept her going against all the odds, and convinced her not to give up hope, Park answered, “My father. My father told me that ‘life is a gift and worth fighting for no matter what’...he taught me that I had to be like a roly-poly toy… ‘no matter how much life pushes you down, you have to be resilient like the roly-poly doll, and always roll back up and fight again’” even when “choosing to continue living has been the hardest choice of all.” Part personal memoir, part political commentary, one hundred percent compelling masterpiece.
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