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  • A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America
  • Written by: Yeonmi Park
  • Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
  • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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While Time Remains

Written by: Yeonmi Park
Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
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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.

©2023 Yeonmi Park. All rights reserved. (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Extremely important information.

The contents of this book is extremely important for young people in western civilization to learn of.

There is a growing interest in Socialism/Communism in the youth and woke culture that is predicated on nothing more than ideology and historical ignorance. It has never worked, and never will.

Please, listen to this book and share it. The fate of our civilization may depend on it.

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Gurl

U r a truth savage! I love love love how you think 🤔 fo yo self and look at u now LOL saying all this when u were so afraid to whisper! I'm only on chapter 4 and can't believe the punches ur not pulling! U rock! Little Heavyweight! Here is my hope for the Korean people:reunification of north and south and the complete destruction of the Kim regime; we see you and your children on an army tank driving into the N from the S waving the S K flag; sanctions against China's human trafficking. Sorry, did not like reader

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Half-Baked

I really wanted to like this book because I was very moved by her story and the way she told it in her previous book. Unfortunately, I just don't think she was able to escape the critical thinking deficit of her youth. She frequently insists on boiling down complex issues into binaries, a hallmark of propaganda and not of intellectual pursuit. Ironically, while lambasting the cult of victimhood of leftists, she demonstrates a victimization narrative; while criticizing the suffering machine of leftist ideology, she creates her own suffering by overstating and oversimplifying complex ideas into their propagandist media forms. There are some nuggets of wisdom in here, but it feels like it has a long way to go.

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Eye opening

The author reveals to us that the same ideology that made North Korea possible is now festering in America. I Highly recommend this book!

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Fantastic book, a must read for all

This book was eye-opening about the sort of depravity currently permitted and perpetuated in North Korea and China. It also details the dangers of undermining the classical liberal values that brought us - the “West” - prosperity.

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Such a great listen!

Loved the whole book. What an amazing inspiration Yeonmi Park is. A true leader. Thank you for telling your story and continuing the fight for freedom for all.

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Great story

I don't usually give reviews, but I enjoyed Ms. Park's story immensely. Very eye-opening life and experiences.

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awesome and emotional

this book gave me so many emotions. I played it while at work and had to take breaks now and than. some chapters made me cry, others proud to be a woman. this woman endured a lot and instead of sitting around feeling bad for herself. made change and continues to do so. that's what real life is all about. I've watched some of her videos on YouTube and recently on one of my fav podcasts as well ( Andrew Schultz)

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A Hero America Needs

Why does America need this 5' 2", 80 pounds, North Korean Defector, and why just America?

She embodies the "American Dream" of freedom.
It is so true as I hear whispers of David Goggins of struggles, sufferings, and pains being the greatest teachers. Who would be better to plead the case for that "America Dream" but a woman who lived the opposite. Man, I had to quiet the angry voice in me a lot each time the performer reading Yeonmi's interactions of those who did her wrong and dared insight she didn't know what she was speaking about because she was just a brainwashed immigrant. Perhaps I felt it as an immigrant to Canada, home of Dr. Peterson, the most likely next dictatorship. (As I write this review the Canadian Government under the guise of the College of Psychology seeks to strip him of his license to practice because he said words that hurt some weak minds.) That anger was righteous as it was directed to the ignorance of those who opposed her. I did remind myself she was the one who went through the darkness. Yes, if you read this, you will know how dark and evil her oppressors were, how humans could be, and are still in North Korea.
Why just America? It is the beacon of freedom today still. There is no other country in the world that is sought after to come to live legally and illegally.
Yeonmi Park's voice needs to be heard in every school class.
I want to write so much more, but as a man almost 50, I can say it is emotional since I have a 5' 2" 95 pounds, daughter that I love and could never want her to go through what Yeonmi did. Parts of her story really broke my heart. From the starvation, sex trafficking, rape, the tyrannical fat boy that doesn't deserve to be named, CCP, woke culture, ignorant educators, and more, but especially her father that I identify with in his struggle to provide by any means possible and to his preventable death. It is all so sad.
However, this book is a testiment of never giving up on the pursuit of Yeonmi's dreams and now fighting by educating the world to keep the "American Dream" alive, "While Time Remains."
Thank you to Yeonmi Park. May you go down in history, an American Hero.

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An Authentic Voice Reporting the Danger of America

Yeonmi loves what America stands for - freedom and the rule of law. But the left hate and train their children to hate their own country. She comes from North Korea and lived the reality of oppression, starvation and retaliatory incarceration. She sees the same danger gathering on the horizon in America and warns that it will not just go away. All must rise and push back or the left's dream of communism will shatter America.

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