Name: Yeonmi Park Details Horrific Effects of North Korean Starvation
Uploaded: 2021-08-03T20:16:49.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Yeonmi Park Details Horrific Effects of North Korean Starvation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Yeonmi Park Details Horrific Effects of North Korean Starvation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-03. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience when you were talking about going to the doctor when
you were a child and that this is a very disturbing story but I want you to try
to explain it to people how people were dying in these hospitals and rats would
eat the eyeballs of the people who are dying and children who are starving
would eat the rats and then the children would die the rats would eat the
children yeah explain what this was like that you what how how did you see this
well I'm seeing that the bodies on the streets like everyday thing it was numb
where were the bodies like just laying around on the streets so they are
floating in the rivers and then they also train station somehow had a lot of
dead
bodies because North Korea is very cold and there's a train waiting area and
North Korea has one train go to one distance like a once a month and like
here it would take like one hour to go the other place in North it take a month
at
least to go because there's no electricity and sometimes people have to push
the
train they have to push the train yeah yeah traveling in North Korea is an
unbelievably difficult thing within North Korea so I mean anyway so in train
stations that's when people die mostly and in North Korea the hardest thing as
a child
for me is that when my mom goes away to find food like we don't have a call
like
we don't have phones we don't have letters if I say goodbye to her I don't know
when I'm gonna see her again or if I'm ever gonna see her again because she
could
have cared and like raped and starved you never know how to find people so in
the you know in the morning when you go to like walk in the train station they
just put the
piles of the dead bodies and they're all like become rigid right they're almost
like
like wood pile down on them and taking away and one but the thing is for me I
didn't even know the word compassion like nobody told me you have to feel bad
for it
because for music like fish in the water don't notice the water right like that
something every day I saw as a child so you you never went days where you didn't
see this is a normal thing to see dead bodies it was every day as as as like
enormous like breathing the air right now and one thing that I remember is
sister my
my sister and I was walking by by the word like in North Korea we don't have a
sewage we don't have running water obviously we have to go to a river to bring
the
drinking water and there's a young teenage boy I think lying down and his
intestines
coming out of his back when you're really managed that thing all opens up you
got
zero zero fats every hole all opens and and you see dog like dogs looking at
his
organs coming out and he was there somehow conscious begging for food at the
time he
was begging for food while his organs were hanging out of his body yeah and I
don't
know why he was like pants were off and I feel nothing that's still haunts me
to
really say like I don't know how I feel nothing at that point and that just
looked
horrible and because you just the fact that he's alive and so much flies flying
by on
his organs and how he's somehow consciously begging for food and I I didn't
feel
anything you felt no compassion no it was just normal yeah yes yes so that's
that was
like daily life thing and then in the hospital when I was 13 years old I my
parents took me to
hospital because I was a bad stomach a and then we don't have like x-ray
machines we don't have a
and none of that's doctor whoops your belly and then he said oh we need to
operate on
her I think her like appendix or a bursting or something so that afternoon they
they
cut me open without any anesthesia and but it's normal thing and people in
North Korea operation without anesthesia but the chances of you going to
surgery is a lot
higher for you getting infected because we don't have penicillin the nurse is
using a
one meter to inject every single patient so who do you know what the other
person has you get from
actually most sick by being in the hospital right and this is where we don't of
course have indoor
bathroom for the patient we have to go outside and in between there there's a
piles of dead human
bodies and that's when I was seeing this somehow rats eating human eyes first
for
some reason because they're probably soft and these women I don't know in my
age
probably short hair wearing these flower pants and when they did all like their
mouth is somehow open and they're all eyes are hollow and you see children like
looking at the rats and laughing and chasing them and adults telling them like
don't eat
those you're gonna get sick from it but of course kids don't care like even
finding a rat is delicacy because even finding a snake so it's a big prize you
don't find those like often so they were finding the rats and then just trying
to
eat them yeah were they eating them raw sometimes if you find a skin you do but
they do find some like fire and roast them so they were excited to find a rat
yeah
catch them with their hands yeah oh yeah of course they do catch them with
their
hands and and these pirates of human bodies like she was on top that's why I
was able to see her reading this flower and pants to this and then like all
eyes are so
hollow it's like we need to look at the human body like nothing is left I think
that's what it's not like just death is that it's just like how it becomes
nothing so empty inside she does not know the shame or pain just she was lying
there like that and you see children just chasing them and laughing and try to
catch the rats and the children didn't feel anything being around the dead
bodies
just normal it's our daily normal thing seeing a death is like our daily life
and
and they would eat the rats and then they would get sick and some of them would
die
yeah
a lot of them die and then the rats would eat them yeah it's like the cycle we
talk
about it's like that's a spring is for North Korean season of death and so the
diseases that they would get from the rats they were willing to risk those
diseases just because of hunger
because when you are so there's a North Korean proverb there is no wish for the
person who died after their stomach is full so even the in in middle of the
earthquake the North Koreans not try to run so my mom was talking about the
tale
when she was in the university there's earthquake happening and do you know
what
these students doing is not running out of the building and try to survive they
go to
kitchen so before they die they eat at least so they can die so if you have
that
promise of eating a one meal they're gonna risk everything for that so it's
just a an entire country in a perpetual state of starvation yeah it's I
remember
playing with this game you know my sister as a young girl I never ate till I
felt full so I would compare myself like I tell her like I can eat hundred
bread and
she's like I can eat the mountains of bread I can eat like ten thousand more
than what you just said because I don't know the limits of my stomach I never
tested it so you always were hungry always hungry never felt full catch new
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