Week 12: Nothing to Envy

Barbara Demick conducts extended interviews with six North Korean defectors. They describe their lives in North Korea before escaping, recounting the realities of a regime that puts its image at the cost of the lives and dignities of its own citizens. 

 

Book mentioned: In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park.

Yeonmi Park interview with Joe Rogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJm4bjRaaE

Yeonmi Park interview with Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4