Considering Yeonmi Park: Another preparatory sketch, another exercise for an essay on dissidents
▣ When I look at the dates and places, I am for some reason moved by a coincidental proximity. Whether or not this is only narcissism, I share it because it helps to explain my attachment to Yeonmi Park. Where was I on the last day of March in 2007, when she crossed the Yalu with her mother? I was taking a ferry from Yantai to Dalian. Did I see her in t…
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