“Freedom comes with responsibility” When Yeonmi Park enters the room prior to her appearance at the Sharper Events ‘End of Slavery Tour’ alongside fellow speaker Tim Ballard in Miami, Florida she has a presence that immediately makes you feel like you’re sitting with an old friend. Small in stature she may be but it’s her mission and the presence that she carries herself with that leaves the lasting impression. The renowned human-rights activist and North Korean refugee and defector has become a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. Her 2014 article about North Korea’s “Black Market Generation” in the Washington Post has created a sensation worldwide and the memoir about her escape from North Korea, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, has recently been published in 20 languages and 18 countries. The book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday. @yeonmi_park is @lapalmemagazine’ Spring cover profile story shot exclusively by @cloganstudios and written by @mattdillon1983. If you don’t know her story you’ll want to grab a copy on news-stands next week or a custom copy via - https://lapalmemagazine.com/2022/04/yeonmi-park/. #yeonmipark #northkorea #humanrights #endslavery