North Korean defector Yeonmi Park experienced firsthand the horrors of life under a communist dictator, and she has made it a practice to warn Americans about the evils of socialism.
In an interview with Nick Shirley, Park spoke about the recent election of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, the most populous city in the United States.
“I voted this election this time and obviously, Mamdani still won and I can’t believe my fate that somehow I keep running towards a socialist government system, right, wherever I escape,” Park said.
North Korean survivor, @YeonmiParkNK, warns Americans about socialism and Zohran Mamdani…
“Young people really don’t know how tyranny comes to them in America. They think tyranny comes with dark suits and guns. Tyranny comes in the name of compassion and equality…paradise” pic.twitter.com/GNafqgHRMn
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) November 27, 2025
“The young people really don’t know how tyranny comes to them in America,” she continued. “They somehow think tyranny comes with like a dark suit and guns and they’re going to come and tell them, ‘0I0’m going to enslave you.’ Usually, tyranny comes in the name of compassion and equality. They come and make these sweet, sweet promises of paradise. Like that’s how [the] North Korean regime began.”
Park explained that Kim Il-Sung, the first “supreme leader” of present-day North Korea, promised free education, free health care, free housing, free food, and vowed to get rid of inequality.
“So my grandmothers gave up their private property. They gave up freedom of speech. They gave up freedom of movement,” she said. “They gave up all their rights to live in this paradise. But we know that when government took all their rights away… they did not create a paradise. They created the biggest concentration camp in human history.”
Likening Mamdani to dictator Kim Il-Sung, Park concluded, “Nothing is free. And this entitlement generation, these young people that I see in New York, who are so unbelievably entitled, they somehow think they deserve free buses. And why do you think you need to get that for free? So we have a huge issue because American education systems have failed teaching these people about tyranny.”
On that note, a disturbing poll shows a majority of “likely” voters under the age of 40 would like to see a so-called “democratic socialist” win the next presidential election.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:
Anybody who has ever watched documentaries about defectors from North Korea should know that the United States or anywhere else should never live under communism.
There is a massive difference between freedom in South Korea and communism in North Korea.
— Molly Pitcher (@AmericanMama) November 27, 2025
If someone who survived North Korea and was willing to die trying to escape is telling you to leave New York City when Zohran Mamdani enters office
Than you better listen to her
— Shawn Ashers (@ArcanesDreamer) November 27, 2025
We’ve seen it coming for 30 or more years in the US and it’s only gotten worse.
— Liberty or Death (@sam_elect) November 27, 2025
“The American education has failed to reach its people about tyranny”.
100%
— sighence (@krisuz44) November 27, 2025
Young people today are too blinded to see this. This needs to go viral. We don’t want or need socialism.
— Puzzled (@FLRouleau) November 27, 2025
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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