Summary of While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park and Jordan B. Peterson: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

By Willie M. Joseph

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Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live, warns of the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart. In While Time Remains, she highlights the dangerous hypocrisies and mob tactics that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Feb 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215473726

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Foreword

Ms. Yeonmi Park is a heroic victim of the brutal North Korean regime, who has all the intersectional virtues of the Left. She was starved, enslaved, bought and sold, and exploited sexually as a young girl. Despite her relative and starvation-induced frailty, she has become a voice of freedom and a thorn in the side of one of the worst dictatorships the world has ever produced. She is reminiscent of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, another woman who faced down religious hypocrites and was labeled an anti-Muslim extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Ms. Yeonmi Park, a minority woman from North Korea, is persona non grata on the Left due to her efforts to draw attention to the plight of the North Koreans, particularly the women who experienced the same horrors that befell her and her mother. She pointed out the complicity of the Chinese Communist Party in supporting the Kim dynasty, and the anti-American rhetoric employed by the Kim family's nest of devils is ultimately in ammatory, with North Korean schoolchildren being taught that the total destruction of American cities by the very weapons just described is something to be devoutly desired. YouTube's response was the demonetization of Yeonmi's channel, with no explanation. If the Cinderella story had been written by someone much grimmer than the Brothers Grimm, the star could well be the author of the story. Ms. Park escaped North Korea, survived sex slavery in China, and made her way to the United States, where she enrolled in Columbia University.

However, when she entered the hallowed halls of higher education, she encountered the same ideology that had corrupted her homeland and doomed her to a life in hell: Totalitarianism Lite. Yeonmi Park grew up in a totalitarian nightmare, roasted and consumed insects to survive, and had to bring rabbit pelts to class to maintain social standing. She came to the US and encountered fools dallying with the same ideas that had made her life harsh. She is warning us not to fall prey to the same ideological temptations that doomed the Soviet Union and all its satellites and still possess the billion-plus people in China. Will we listen? Perhaps not.

Preface

The North Korean regime was unable to sustain the illusion of socialist self-suiency with charitable aid from the Soviet Union, and when the USSR dissolved in 1991, the aid dried up. The country's arable lands were inadequate to feed its 21 million people, and the coal mines that powered the country's meager electricity supply were ooded. The famine was coming, and the government had no idea how to respond. To prepare the country, the government banned the words famine and hunger, and by the time the child was born, up to 3.5 million North Koreans had died of starvation. The narrator escaped North Korea in 2007, and has since said that being born in North Korea is the best thing that ever happened to him.

He has an appreciation for simple human existence, such as the right to exist, the ability to think, to love, to walk or sit without looking over their shoulder, and to take two consecutive breaths uninterrupted by fear. He also has a deep appreciation and awe for human freedom as a whole, which he owes to the sixteen-year nightmare that was his previous life. The most important details are that the North Korean regime was able to weather the famine and continue subjecting millions of people to what the United Nations has described as a modern-day holocaust. The Chinese Communist Party has long since replaced the USSR as the chief enabler of the holocaust, and that the whole world must be nothing more than variations on a North Korean theme. The author was saved by Christian missionaries who invited him on a trip to places he'd never heard of, such as Tyler, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia.

The most important details in this text are that the author was assaulted and robbed in Chicago in the summer of 2020, and that many of their fellow Americans have lost the ability to appreciate the glory of this country the way they do. The author wrote this book using their own memories, conscience, and perspective, unencumbered by censorship or threats of legal repercussions, as a testament to the miracle of American life. When they tell their American friends and colleagues that certain developments in the United States remind them of North Korea, they typically cock their heads and smirk. The term far right is used to refer to the control of institutions by a small class of people eager to punish dissenters. It does not refer to a set of social and economic preferences on the spectrum of American political possibilities, but rather to disloyalty to the tastes, opinions, values, and preferences of the nancial, political, and cultural elite.

This is reminiscent of North Korea, where the lower and working classes were brainwashed by the ruling class. I am committed to an absolutist ideology of individual rights and freedom, and draw on my knowledge and experience of North Korea to illuminate threats to liberty in America.