I want to thank Mary Ann Jolley for caring so much about the terrible situation in North Korea that she would point out any inconsistencies in my quotes and how my story has been reported. Much of the time, there was miscommunication because of a language barrier. I have only learned English in the last year or so, and I’m trying hard to improve every day to be a better advocate for my people. I apologize for any misunderstandings. For example, I never said that I saw executions in Hyesan. My friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to name it). And there are mountains you can even see on Google Earth – maybe you call them big hills in English – outside of Hyesan that we crossed to escape. There are many more examples like this.
There are many things one can say about this, but I want to highlight:
My friends’ mother was executed in a small city in central North Korea where my mother still has relatives (which is why I don’t want to name it).
The DPRK executes families to the eighth degree of relation [as in up to around the sixth cousin] for doing stand-up comedy critical of the Leader, sometimes killing a five-figure number of people [she said 35k], but over the course of years it cannot determine the other family members of people whose specific identities they do know, even when given the area those family members reside in. What a fucking joke.
If the DPRK was in the same plane of reality as she pretends, it'd do fucking city-wide DNA tests or something if people managed to have secret familial relations (having long-ago gotten samples of Park's DNA from her old family home). If the mother ever spoke to these family members, Big Brother Kim would know because 80% of the country is employed as part time Thought Police and part time grave diggers for the constant executions. There is nothing about this claim, there is no set of additional assumptions, that could make this story of hers make sense.
The first paragraph of that response:
There are many things one can say about this, but I want to highlight:
The DPRK executes families to the eighth degree of relation [as in up to around the sixth cousin] for doing stand-up comedy critical of the Leader, sometimes killing a five-figure number of people [she said 35k], but over the course of years it cannot determine the other family members of people whose specific identities they do know, even when given the area those family members reside in. What a fucking joke.
If the DPRK was in the same plane of reality as she pretends, it'd do fucking city-wide DNA tests or something if people managed to have secret familial relations (having long-ago gotten samples of Park's DNA from her old family home). If the mother ever spoke to these family members, Big Brother Kim would know because 80% of the country is employed as part time Thought Police and part time grave diggers for the constant executions. There is nothing about this claim, there is no set of additional assumptions, that could make this story of hers make sense.