When Yeonmi Park made the courageous decision to flee North Korea at the age of 13, she couldn’t have imagined the life that awaited her.
After enduring the barbarity of North Korea’s ruling regime, unspeakable acts of sexual violence as the victim of a human sex trafficking ring in China, and a trek across the frozen Gobi Desert, Park managed to escape to South Korea and, eventually, the United States. While her U.S. life has given her a deep appreciation for basic, God-given liberties, Park’s experiences in America have alerted her to a much larger issue overlooked by much of the country — the fragility of freedom.
In her new bestselling book, “While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America,” Park issues a stark warning about the left’s increasing threat to the American way of life. The intolerance today’s U.S. leftists display towards individuals refusing to subscribe to their worldview is leading the country down a path to totalitarianism, she says, in which free speech and independent thinking are forsaken in favor of groupthink.
“The new ideology might start in only a small number of classrooms, or magazines, or bureaucracies,” Park writes. “But these little fringe ideas held by a small number of young people and immature adults in isolated industries located in eccentric parts of the country can slowly but surely become the entire society’s dominant culture. Especially if the new ideology works to the advantage of political, financial, and cultural elites, they will
