Reddit reviews In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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They seem to all have have identical stories about just how fucked up it is.
If things were truly "neutral" or "okay" they wouldn't be so negative about it. Not only that, but others here have commented on how nonchalant they are about death, etc. You wouldn't be like that unless you were exposed to all the terrible things NK defectors are constantly talking about.
I don't know why people think there's some massive anti-NK conspiracy. I'm sure there is plenty of inaccuracies in NK defector accounts (that's just how humans are in general) but there is no way that this isn't a similar situation to the Holocaust going on right now in NK.
I really get angry when I watch a lot of these "tourist" videos and they're like, "Things aren't so bad here!". It's because the NK government is only letting you see the 5% of the country that isn't falling apart.
https://www.amazon.com/Order-Live-Korean-Journey-Freedom/dp/014310974X
Just read that book and others like it if you need more "proof".
In her book,In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom , Yeonmi Park talks about how spot-on Orwell was with the concept of Doublethink and how it applied to North Korean indoctrination. She says she was raised to believe Kim Jong Il could read her mind so she was afraid of questioning things she knew were false.
Not saying more can't be done, but this video is a re-upload. The original (edit: I'm assuming it's the original), on "One Young World"'s YouTube channel, has 4million views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhKWfPSQOw).
Also, according to her wikipedia page, that particular speech "received 50 million views in two days on YouTube and social media, with a current total of more than 80 million."
Anyway, not trying to downplay what you were saying, more can/should always be done, but it's not like hers is/has been a completely unheard voice in the darkness.
Edit: here's another interview she did in 2015.
Edit2: here's a book (memoir) she wrote, also in 2015. (amazon link)
Edit3: here she is talking to the Oslo Freedom Forum in Aug 2018.
Okay, I'll stop now.
I recommend this one too: https://www.amazon.com/Order-Live-Korean-Journey-Freedom/dp/014310974X
It's not about camps, but it's still awful to see how's the regular life of people. This is the author, after she escaped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhKWfPSQOw