All three of us have escaped from total darkness.
An excerpt from my new book 📕
“Darkness in North Korea is total. It is not just the absence of light, power, and food. It is the absence of dignity, sanctuary, and hope…
There are few people left in America who have ever faced starvation, or wondered where their next meal would come from. And as the generation of the Great Depression and the World Wars passes on, so does the memory of what it took to build the system of abundance that we enjoy today.
As America becomes predominantly made up of people who didn’t have a hand in building the system in the first place, it is producing more and more people who want to destroy the system because they don’t understand it.
They don’t appreciate how fragile their freedom is, how precious their system of government, how rare their way of life. And so they entertain fantasies of tearing it down. In some cases, those fantasies are becoming reality….”
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While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America
I am at Oslo Freedom Forum and cannot wait to come home and say hello to you ♥️
