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It is finally time to reveal the documentary Elwood and I have been working on for months!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM0mfsFMrtk
Releases at 12:00PM CET

Hey everyone, welcome to MEGA!

Yeonmi Park (@Voice of North Korea by Yeonmi Park on YouTube) is a North Korean Celebrity Defector. Her job consists of telling people her unbelievable story of tyranny, survival and the horrors of communism.

But what if a person like Yeonmi is not as truthful as we think they are? What if celebrity defectors prioritize profits over humanitarian efforts? Stay tuned to find out!

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All of that aside, here is a comprehensive list of all Sources we have used to base our script on:

Video Sources and Showcased Articles (Order of appearance)

“How do we change a mindset?”
By SBS Insight
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Fovpy6lmg

“I Am a North Korean Millennial – Yeonmi Park (CC)”
By Liberty in North Korea
Source: https://youtu.be/uDXkdjx7VAE

“Celebrity Defector: Speaking out against North Korea”
By SBS Dateline
Source: https://youtu.be/PD44psFn-nI

“Bob Zadek Show June 22nd 2014”
Source: https://static.squarespace.com/static/53615d24e4b0a4907f99ed24
/t/53a8f1b2e4b04eb3d0ae79aa/1403580850616
/Bob%20Zadek%20Show%20%20June%2022%202014.mp3/original/Bob+Zadek+Show++June+22+2014.mp3

“The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park”
By Mary Ann Jolley
Source: https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/

“When North Koreans Go South, Some Go Professional”
By Jason Strother
Source: https://www.38north.org/2015/06/jstrother062515/

“Yeonmi Park Details Horrific Effects of North Korean Starvation”
By PowerfulJRE
Source: https://youtu.be/KK6psAnynUA

“Is Kim Jong-Un Gay?”
By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/Ra5FApzc9Es

“The Lies of Yeonmi Park – A Cunning Witch Using Deceptive Tears”
North Korean State Media
Source: https://youtu.be/-GiWERASEPY

“The true story of Yeonmi Park, who got rich through lies
about her homeland DPRK” – North Korean State Media
Source: https://youtu.be/9W_bplUZdho

“Breaking: Shocking Resurgence of Cannibalism in North Korea”
By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/RoxZfs_baNg

“What would happen if you are a gay person in North Korea”
By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/I8gxf1ioxYw

“Shocking Secret of Kim Yo-jong”
By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/-V6HIwaly_8

“Tyranny, Slavery and Columbia U | Yeonmi Park |
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast – S4: E26”
Source: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

“Breaking: Kim Jong-Un might be dying from brain tumor”
By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/X6iC-nHrBog

“Kim Jong-Un brutally shoots an orchestra conductor 90 times
in front of every artist in Pyongyang” – By Yeonmi Park
Source: https://youtu.be/469kgY8vPNE

“Kim Jong-Un Had Conductor Executed By Firing Squad Following
Celebration, South Korean Paper Says” – By Jon Jackson
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-firing-squad-conductor-1590226

“Yeonmi Park Tells Her Unbelievable Story About Escaping
North Korea” – By Candace
Source: https://youtu.be/Ua00hjZpY6E

“Yeonmi Park | Escaping from North Korea in search of freedom
| One Young World”
Source: https://youtu.be/Ei-gGvLWOZI

“SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: HOW AMERICAN LIBERTARIANS ARE
REMAKING LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS” – By Lee Fang
Source: https://theintercept.com/2017/08/09/atlas-network-alejandro-chafuen-
libertarian-think-tank-latin-america-brazil/

“Venezuela protest: Opposition clashes with police”
By Al Jazeera English
Source: https://youtu.be/1lVlhEc–Rg

“Maria Corina Machado thanks the Atlas Network”
Source: https://youtu.be/FC8uYOJvxuI

“An Introduction to Atlas Network”
By Atlas Network
Source: https://youtu.be/gag_l4JUbJc

“North Korea lashes out at US over Biden ‘insults’ | DW News”
Source: https://youtu.be/nwqsKrj75gc

“Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean president at historic summit”
By The Telegraph
Source: https://youtu.be/cPoFrJUvaXE

“U.S. Keeps Japanese Rulers In Korea to Enforce Orders; Hodge Reassures Koreans U.S.
WILL RETAIN KOREA JAPANESE Abe Signs for Japanese By RICHARD J. H. JOHNSTON
Says Japanese Warned Koreans”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/10/archives/us-keeps-japanese-rulers-in-korea-
to-enforce-orders-hodge-reassures.html

“Koreans March in Protest Against Keeping Japanese; Officials in Washington Amazed at Army
Action–State Department Disclaims Any Part in Move–MacArthur Bars Disorder”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/11/archives/koreans-march-in-protest-against-
keeping-japanese-officials-in.html

Excerpt from “Korea Yearbook (2009): Politics, Economy and Society”
Edited by Rüdiger Frank, Jim Hoare, Patrick Kölner, Susan Pares
Source: https://books.google.co.uk/
books?id=CmaWblhxJsEC&pg=PA234&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Excerpt from “Prospects for the survival of the Republic of Korea”
Source: CIA Document published on October 1948

Excerpt from “The Korean War : a history”
By Bruce Cummings
Source: https://archive.org/details/koreanwarhistory0000cumi/page/112/mode/2up

“The 1997 Famine That Still Affects North Korea Today”
By Journeyman Pictures
Source: https://youtu.be/30-2sPGNGEw

“United Nations Consolidated UN Inter-agency Appeal
for Flood-related Emergency Humanitarian Assistance to the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)”
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/19970803063603/http://www.reliefweb.int/
emergenc/korea/source/dha/appeal96/prk_atx1.html

“North Korea: Who is sending aid?”
By the BBC
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48637518

“The Human Costs and Gendered Impact on North Korea”
By Korea Peace Now
https://koreapeacenow.org/first-comprehensive-assessment-of-the-impact-of-sanctions-
against-north-korea-shows-adverse-consequences-for-civilians-especially-women/

“The 200 Americans Living in North Korea
Have Little Time Left to Leave”
By Elizabeth Diaz
Source: https://time.com/4913703/americans-living-north-korea-have-little-time-left/

“Escaped From North Korea, Sold in China – Yeonmi Park Interview”
By laowhy86
Source: https://youtu.be/xykyagu3twI

“Which Country Has The Most Nuclear Weapons?”
By Jessica Dillinger
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-
nuclear-weapons.html

“Watch Historic Meeting Between Trump, Kim Jong Un
In The DMZ | NBC News”
Source: https://youtu.be/P5QpCaMHJjQ

“Exclusive: With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to
hand over nuclear weapons” By Lesley Wroughton, David Brunnstrom
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-document-
exclusive-idUSKCN1RA2NR

Photograph of Trump by
GAGE SKIDMORE
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22007612@N05/5440609290

Photograph of Reactor by
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION’S PHOTOSTREAM
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69383258@N08/16041740052

“President George W Bush’s first State of the Union Speech”
By AP Archive
Source: https://youtu.be/YaSy2Yoex3E

“Almost half of defectors experience discrimination in the
South: major survey” – By JH Ahn
Source: https://www.nknews.org/2017/03/close-to-half-of-defectors-face-discrimination-in-
the-south-says-govt-survey/

“After fleeing North Korea, some defectors want to go back to life
under Kim Jong-un” – By Matthey Carney
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-15/north-korean-defectors-returning-to-
the-hermit-kingdom/9254654

“Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?”
By Jiyoung Song
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-
testimonies-so-often-fall-apart

Sources (written formats not including showcased sources)

When North Koreans Go South, Some Go Professional
https://www.38north.org/2015/06/jstrother062515/

South Korea boosts reward for defectors from North to $860,000
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39170614

US intel chief: North Korea will never give up nukes
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/25/politics/clapper-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-lost-cause/index.html

A Second Look: Media Coverage of the 7th Workers’ Party of Korea Congress
https://www.38north.org/2016/05/rcarlin051716/

Why South Korean media so often misses the mark on North Korea

Why South Korean media so often misses the mark on North Korea

North Korea’s invisible phone, killer dogs and other such stories – why the world is transfixed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10554198/North-Koreas-invisible-phone-killer-dogs-and-other-such-stories-why-the-world-is-transfixed.html

A cautionary tale of dogs, imposters and North Korea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-25621324

Hyperbole, sensationalism and surreal stories about North Korea
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2014/01/13/2003581169

‘Wrong as Often as Right’ Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy

‘Wrong as Often as Right’ Is Good Enough When Reporting on an Official Enemy

North Korea criticises ‘reptile media’ for saying Kim Jong-un ordered executions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/north-korea-reptile-media-kim-jongun

Dangerous, isolated and primed for war? North Korean clichés debunked
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/27/north-korea-cliches-debunked-hazel-smith

Kim Jong Un approval rating over 50 percent, poll of defectors finds
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-08-30/kim-jong-un-approval-rating-over-50-percent-poll-defectors-finds

Kim Jong-un’s approval rating higher than Barack Obama’s
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10276670/Kim-Jong-uns-approval-rating-higher-than-Barack-Obamas.html

Kim Jong Un Now Has a Nearly 80% Approval Rating… in South Korea
https://time.com/5262898/kim-jong-un-approval-rating/

History of South Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea

NIS public opinion manipulation scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_NIS_public_opinion_manipulation_scandal

South Korea’s troubling history of jailing ex-presidents

South Korea’s troubling history of jailing ex-presidents

People’s Republic of Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Korea#Development_in_the_North

1948 South Korean Constitutional Assembly election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_South_Korean_Constitutional_Assembly_election#Background

North Korean parliamentary election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_North_Korean_parliamentary_election

Jeju uprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising

Suncheon rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeosu%E2%80%93Suncheon_rebellion

Death of controversial four-star general stokes S. Korea’s ideological divide
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/953443.html

Seoul frees long-term prisoners
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/283787.stm

North Korean restaurant staff defection was forced, manager says
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-44839653

Kim Jong-un’s ‘weight problem’ and the pitfalls of spy briefings
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-36700765

Effects of Sanctions on North Korea’s Refined Oil Prices
https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/effects-sanctions-north-koreas-refined-oil-prices

Report: Sanctions on N. Korea Not Working; Harming Civilian Population
https://www.voanews.com/amp/east-asia-pacific_report-sanctions-n-korea-not-working-harming-civilian-population/6178784.html

Videos Documentaries and Channels

South Korea Releases Decades-Old Political Prisoners (1999)