In our debut episode, we sit down and look at the life and works of North Korean celebrity defector Yeonmi Park and talk about the lives of North Korean defectors in order to answer our burning questions: Does North Korea have no concept of love? Is America a woke communist hellhole run by capitalists? And most importantly: can we stan Yeonmi’s grift?Patreon: patreon.com/WhiteNoise_PodcastIG: whitenoise__podTwitter: whitenoisepdFurther Reading:The speech that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhKWfPSQOwThe Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/Why Do North Korean Defector Testimonies So Often Fall Apart? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apartLoyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUMZS-ZegM&t=929Lankov, Andrei. The Real North Korea : Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.Cumings, Bruce. North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press, 2004.Hough, Jennifer and Markus Bell. “North Koreans’ Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea,” Critical Asian Studies 52, no. 2 (2020): 168-181. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2020.1740606Kim, Sungkyung. “‘Defector,’ ‘Refugee,’ or ‘Migrant’? North Korean Settlers in South Korea’s Changing Social Discourse.” North Korean Review 8, no. 2 (2012): 94-110.Kim, Nora Hui-Jung. “Co-ethnics, refugees, or immigrants? Multiple Identities of North Koreans in multicultural South Korea,” Asian Ethnicity 12, no. 2 (2017): 167-170. DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2016.1151238‌90s North Korean love movies:O Youth! 청춘이여! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32wJ9yK8ScUrban Girl Comes to Get Married 도시처녀 시집와요 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Gjw9GucKk&ab_channel=mavp1917