Some of the comparisons she makes are a bit difficult to grasp. She makes rapid-fire statements with little argumentation. Like when she compares anti-racism with Juche. Like, I’m sorry, just… how. Can we get an explanation? I find it easy to compare Trump’s MAGA with Juche, but… anti-racism? There were many other comparisons that were made the same way and I just can’t avoid assuming she knows most of her readers won’t know anything about North Korea but I just couldn’t make sense of a lot of things. Since the publishing of her first book, Park has immigrated to the USA, graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics, started a YouTube channel, and gave birth to a son. While it seems like she has completely integrated into 'normal' society, it is not without its challenges. I think she makes some salient points about cancel culture and performative activism among the left. However, those same discussions around cancel culture and cult of personality among the left read as somewhat foolish when no mention is made of right wing suppression of books, history, and science and the overall idolization of Donald Trump (not to mention his on again off again relationship with both the North Korean and Chinese rulers). Further, she is concerned that embracing "woke' ideologies and socialist politics will erode American democracy while again making no mention of a literal right wing insurrection and active voter suppression. She also relies largely on anecdotes to make her points rather than any real evidence or data. Making claims about North Korea in the present tense and speaking about some things that have no evidence at all. I am sure her heart is in the right place and ‘all attention is good attention’ may get money for NK human rights. But I am morally not okay with the claims and big statements she makes. No one in his right mind will consider that censuring free thought and critical thinking is good. If this is what happens in Colombia then it is good to speak up. No one in his right mind will think that the only way to pursue a relationship is by being gay and gender fluid and polyamory and so forth and that this is imposed by I don’t know who.

I think she does make some great points especially when discussing performative activism on the side of the left; however, I take issue with the fact that although the same issues can be said of the right, she only draws from examples from the left and compares “woke culture” to the North Korean regime. A book written by Jordan Peterson, edited by Ben Shapiro with the final amendments from Douglas Murray. This is pure right wing propaganda and While time remains, it should be exposed as such. It is divisive, polarizing and shows very limited understanding on anything. I don't agree with all of the opinions that she's presented in this book but she brings up a lot of great points and offers a lot of food for thought. Also, the comparisons that she was able to draw between woke/cancel culture and North Korean dictatorship and propaganda were very interesting. If you want to indicate that any amount of remaining time will allow "that" to be looked at, then you should use: What she writes about is the trajectory she sees the US heading一one that limits freedom of speech, cancels and bans dissidents, ignores teaching critical thinking in favor of memorization, and absolves itself from individual responsibility一is very similar to what led North Koreans (and other societies) to give up their freedoms in favor of charismatic leaders who later revealed themselves to be villains.A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America · Publisher Description · More Books by Yeonmi Park & Jordan B. Peterson. Will" is needed because the sentence is conditional and you are talking about something that will happen in the future if the condition is met. For example, she talks about how many people in the helping professions I.e teachers tend to lean left and through this kids are being indoctrinated in schools . Nowhere does she bring up book bans, whitewashed history, and other means of suppression that comes from the right. There are many more example such as this though the book. What's unique about this book is the love you can tell this woman has for America, the same way so many immigrants do. This place for her is not an expensive and oppressive prison, but a place unique in the world for the oppurtunities it provides.

Not at all what I was expecting to read. While I sympathize with everything that the author has experienced and endured, this was a very political book that showed clear bias one way while the author herself claims to be apolitical. Really, I have all the respect for this lady, this is why I read her book. I myself grew up (until 10) in a dictatorship and I am most grateful for being able to live in a democracy. I myself am an immigrant. I saw how damaged a society can be after 50 years in a dictatorship. I am no genius who managed to cover in 18 months the academic knowledge of 18 years in one of the most competitive educational systems like Mrs Park, and I am still painfully learning the intricacies of capitalism and markets and justice and freedom. She seems to have already acquired all the knowledge she needs to ring the alarm bells and explain all kinds of none sense about the dangers of woke culture and the goodness of Friedman (and, astonishingly, there are good parts in Friedman too). While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America by Yeonmi Park, Jordan B. Peterson

Views Program ID: 526743-1 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Speech Location: Salem, Virginia, United States First Aired: Apr 23, 2023 | 9:05am EDT | C-SPAN 2 Last Aired: Aug 22, 2023 | 7:11am EDT | C-SPAN 2 Airing Details It is good to speak up about the dangers to freedom, but it is better to at least try to understand what you are talking about before crying wolf on the roofs. Park comes at these issues from (the Right, sure but more uniquely) from the perspective of someone who grew up in one of the most horrendous places, under one of the heinous regimes in the history of mankind, who lived through unspeakable horrors in China as a sex slave and is now a Columbia educated activist in the public sphere advocating for human rights and individual liberties. I have no patience for Ben Shapiros or Candace Owens but I had to hear this lady out. I've heard this woman's story before but never thought of comparing it to what's going on in America right now. Yeonmi Park writes plainly about her own experiences and how we as Americans and humans everywhere can learn from her life story and what's going on all over the world. She is inspiring and this book makes me want to be better than just a fat, lazy American who takes their amazing life for granted.