What's Life Like in North Korea? A Defector Explains.

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Growing up in North Korea, Hyun-Seung Lee says, he had no real understanding of the concept of freedom or human rights. The communist regime monitors citizens so closely, he couldn't speak freely even in his own home, says Lee, who goes by the nickname Arthur.

“I believe that in my home, there [were] bugs or listening devices, so honestly, when we were in North Korea among our family, we cannot share honest opinion[s],” Lee says.

When he was 29, Lee escaped North Korea with some of his family and eventually made his way to America. Today, he is director of the D.C. office of the Korean Conservative Political Action Conference.

Lee joins “The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about how his childhood in North Korea informs what he wants Americans to know about life under a totalitarian regime.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, March 11th.
0:09.3	I'm Doug Blair.
0:10.3	And I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.8	Arthur Lee was born in North Korea.
0:14.3	It was not until he traveled to China as a young man that he began to realize the truth
0:20.0	about the North Korean regime.
0:22.2	He and his family ultimately managed to escape and eventually moved to America.
0:27.3	Today, Mr. Lee joins the show to share his story of what life is like within North Korea.
0:34.2	But before we get to that conversation with Arthur Lee, let's hit our top news stories
0:38.6	of the day.
0:50.6	Americans are paying more for things like food, gas, and rent as inflation source to
0:55.4	nearly 40 year high.
0:57.8	Gasoline prices are up 6.6% from February.
1:01.1	An MPR reports that the average price of gas in America is now $4.32 per gallon.
1:07.9	Prices shot up in many other sectors of the economy as well.
1:10.9	Per USA Today, food costs increased 1% versus last month and rent also increased by 0.6%.
1:18.5	Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration.
1:23.0	The lawsuit in part aims to answer this question.
1:26.3	Are surgeries or hormone treatments to change children's bodies to appear as the opposite
1:32.4	gender child abuse?
1:34.7	Paxton says such so-called sex change surgeries and the administration of puberty blockers
1:41.1	constitute child abuse.
	...

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