Cultish cover image

Yeonmi Park: A North Korean Defector's Warning to the West

Cultish

00:00

The Importance of Studying the Different Types of Governments

North Korea is a perfect example of testing ideas. We divide a country that had same people, same generation, same IQ, I mean, tradition, culture, everything and then let's give them different two sets of ideas. So North chose to communism, bus, cutting Mao and Stalin's version of communism and South Korea copied American version of free market democracy. But all other countries, I think, was not quite able to take it to the isolation that North Korea chose to do. For instance, North Koreans don't even know the existence of internet. The one thing I actually finished watching? Have you ever seen or heard the series Chernobyl on HBO about the... Did you see that?

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app