Visit YAF.org to learn more. Watch Yeonmi Park LIVE at Clemson University, where she shares her powerful story of escaping North Korea and explains why young Americans must fight for freedom at home. This event is part of YAF's Preserving American Liberty & Freedom Lecture Series. Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who has become a leading voice for freedom around the world. In her viral talks, viewed hundreds of millions of times, Park urges young people to recognize—and resist—the true oppression that exists in North Korea and around the world in communist and socialist countries. Park is the author of While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America, published in 2023.