Defects to the American Right

 

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Yeonmi Park’s account of the horrors of her native North Korea made her a human rights celebrity. She now claims that America is on the same path — and it has made her a right-wing media star.

“So many people in America think that somehow America is immune to tyranny, and somehow a dictatorship begins like North Korea,” she told an audience at a conservative event. “It didn’t begin there. It began with amazing promises of equity. They promised a socialist paradise to us.”

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