What It's Truly Like Living In North Korea - Yeonmi Park - #356

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Yeonmi Park. She's a North Korean defector, an author and a YouTuber. North Korea is the most shrouded dictatorial and walled off nation on earth. The only press who have permitted access get shown this performance masquerading as real life, and leaving the country is essentially impossible. At 13 years old, Yeonmi escaped, along with her sister and mother. Today, expect to learn how North Korea's citizens are conned into spying on each other, why it's better to die than go to prison, how the state has managed to get the total escapees down to two in the last few years, if Yeonmi is scared about retribution from Kim Jong Un, and much more. It's harrowing to find out that such barbaric and medieval, brutal conditions are being imposed on anybody that's alive right now, that state-enforced famine is a weapon to control a population somewhere. Yeah, I mean, what can be done about this is a hugely complex question, but if nothing else, it should make you incredibly grateful for wherever it is that you're living right now. Another reason to be very grateful for where you're living right now is that the Modern Wisdom reading list is finally live. 100 books that you should read before you die. You can get your copy right now for free by going to chriswillex.com. This has taken months to write. It's over 10,000 words long. There's summaries of why I love each different read in there. There's links so that you can immediately go and get the book on Amazon. I adore it. It's optimized for mobile. It's beautiful. It's got some of the most impactful and important books that I've ever read in my life and some that you definitely will never have heard of before. There's fiction, non-fiction and real life stories. It'll also sign you up to my Three Minute Monday newsletter. You need this in your life. Get your phone out now and head to chriswillex.com/books. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. You are not eating enough fruit and vegetables in your diet and you know it. And this is going to help. It is a single scoop that contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food sourced ingredients, including a multivitamin, multi-mineral, pre and probiotic, green superfood blend and more that all work together to fill the nutritional gaps in your diet, increase energy and focus, aid with digestion and support a healthy immune system, all without the need to take multiple products or pills. It is even NSF certified for sports in the US, meaning that Olympians can take it and it's been updated 53 times over the last decade. They don't just stay still as new research comes in and as they can improve the recipe, they continue to do it. It's lifestyle friendly whether you eat keto, paleo, vegan, dairy-free or gluten-free and it contains less than one gram of sugar while still tasting awesome. Tim Ferriss has been going on about it for ages. Even Dr. David Sinclair and Andrew Huberman, two of the best performance researchers that I know on the planet, both of them use it. That's good enough for me. Head to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom and you will get a free one year supply of vitamin D, five free travel packs, free pots, shakers and more. This is available worldwide. On top of all that, you get a 60 day money back guarantee. So you can buy it, try it and if you do not like it, send it back after 59 days and they will give you your money back. Head to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom.
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