While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

Written by Yeonmi Park

Narrated by Maureen Taylor

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Feb 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781797153322

Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist. She escaped the brutal Kim dictatorship as a teenager only to fall victim to sex trafficking in China, before escaping to South Korea by walking across the Gobi Desert. Eventually making her way to America, where she is now a citizen, Park has dedicated her life to bringing attention to the horrors and atrocities taking place in her home country and in China. Park is also the author of the international bestseller In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom. She is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Reviews for While Time Remains

[Tim · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing and frightening!Can America, as we know it, survive the liberal deconstruction of our very exceptional society and way of life? The author sounds the alarm for anyone willing to listen and independently reason.

[Drew Taylor · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Such an inspiring, informative read. The narrator did a great job. I can’t read to read Yeonmi Park’s other book! If you are an US American, you should read this.

[Richard Gomez · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Incredible story! Incredible person! Should be required reading for Highschool.

[Jados Moreno · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Pretty obvious the state department put this woman on a PR tour. Some of her claims are ludicrous, yet easy to belive for a liberal western audience that knows nothing about South East Asia

[Ben McCracken · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What an important book for a very important time. I consider myself liberal and appreciate how this author differentiates between “the left” and true liberalism. She is a breath of fresh air in today’s over the top political climate.

[julieta0691 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I absolutely loved this book.

First of all I admire how strong she is for being so brave and outlive so many deaths and abuse in life, still she found the strength to survive and live on well, her hunger for knowledge and her will and effort to help other people in North Korea is admirable.

Second, I love the fact that she has the courage to bring out so many things that is actually happening but no one is talking in our everyday life. I can’t agree more on everything she pointed out, which is exactly what many of us think, but how many actually dare to say it out loud?

The world is becoming weak, chaotic and cynical, lost of value and moral, lost of family community sense and responsibility, but instead it focus on individualism and self ego.

liberalism turns into racism and sexisms, twists of words that cover up the real agenda of the politician and government control. Do we really have the freedom of speech? We can get blocked easily on social media for expressing opinions that is not mainstream, how free and liberal are we?

What is happening to the world? When we only focus on the minority and equality, what is that we want to achieve? what is that we suppose to teach our children?

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” The quote, from a postapocalyptic novel by the author G. Michael Hopf, sums up a stunningly pervasive cyclical vision of history.

Seriously, in this world of abundance, isn’t it happening now?

[Hannah Larson · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Unbalanced view point. Not understanding her logic. It doesn’t allow for other view points.

[Ali · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

She left allot out.For example my conversation with some socialists and or Marxists have been that they do not equate themselves with dictatorships like North Korea which they agree is a dictatorship and isn't real socialism.It didn't come clearly across that things can start off being good and idealistic but then turn bad or sour with time.

[Steve · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

An insightful perspective on modern American culture! It was great

[najiau · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I gave this book 5 stars, but I don't plan on reading it again because it is so horrifying. This memoir is soooooo greeeeeat that opened my mind and heart. I realized that I have never had a bad day, and that I am truly fortunate to be born in Indonesia. Go visit North Korea, Palestine, and the Uyghur region to see what it is like to live in a nightmare. Yeonmi Park's story is heartbreaking, but it is also inspiring. I hope to meet her someday and give her a long, warm hug. I never wanted to be a woman with great influence power, but after reading this book, I wish I have the power to make more influencial people care about what is happening in North Korea and help do something about it. Insha Allah I will always pray for you Yeonmi Park ❤️❤️❤️.

I used to feel sad about certain challenges in my life that seemed to never end. But now, my mindset has shifted. I feel honored and grateful to go through life with all of its challenges. I am grateful that I have the opportunity to overcome those challenges with freedom and a full belly. Forgive me Ya Allah for ever feeling sad about this, because my life is nothing but blessings ❤️???.

[Carmen Brooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Superb. Read it and tremble. We have been warned. Peace!

[Kathie Myers · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I read Yeonmi’s first book. It was grueling to hear about the horrific situations she ,her family and other North Koreans were in. This 2nd book was grueling as well but for different reasons. I understand she was looking at life in the US through the lens of all her past experiences. However, she sounded self righteous, completely judgemental of “ leftists “ , made huge broad generalizations about NGO’s , college professors, democrats, the elite. And she completely bashed “ wokeness” saying that kids in school were being fed “ woke “ ideology making their experience somehow going in the direction of the authoritarianism of North Korea. I struggled to listen to the whole book.That’s it.

[No one You know · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The left and the rulers of North Korea are in league together to destroy freedom? Really, seriously?

[Rassu Shrestha · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I thought this would be a good listen and it had a a good start. But it gets a bit pretentious and goes towards far right propaganda. A little bit excessive and boring.

[Ted Nash · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A book that every socialist wannabe should read, and that everyone else should use as grounds to resist the naive wannabe socialist fools, along with the cunning elites that take advantage of them.

[Emma Jacomet · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It will offend. But it is an incredibly important book!

[E.H. Clark · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Her 'fellow' defectors say she stole their stories and now she is a Libertarian ThinkTank spokesperson. Take her tale with a grain of salt.