President Trump again had high praise for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their Vietnam summit. Some NK defectors view the flattery as legitimizing the authoritarian ruler — whose crimes against humanity include enslavement, mass starvation, murder and torture.
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00:00We lived there for two years, as slaves.
00:26Trump, all he did was get a lot of pictures of Kim Jong-un.
00:30And putting him on the international stage and praising him,
00:34and saying how much Kim Jong-un loves his people.
00:36Well, he is very talented, very smart, very good negotiator.
00:41Wants to do the right thing.
00:42Is he kidding me?
00:43Like, if he loves his own people, he's got to feed his people.
00:47I would not be here today.
00:49I would be happy living in my own country.
00:51I would never have to escape from being raped and being sold or that journey.
01:00I escaped with my mother to China.
01:03Then we were trafficked in China.
01:06And then we lived there for two years, as slaves.
01:10And then we escaped through Mongolia.
01:14We crossed the Gobi Desert to Mongolia.
01:17Then South Korea.
01:18How do you free yourself if you don't know you're a slave?
01:29If you don't know you're slaves, how do you, like, try to free yourself?
01:33I mean, North Korean people don't know that that's a dictator.
01:36They don't know.
01:37They think he's a god.
01:39So our organization, we use our network underground.
01:43We get information inside North Korea and tell people that they are slaves.
01:47They have to demand their freedom.
01:48They have to fight for their rights.
02:02How the leader of, like, free world is praising this dictator, too.
02:08How, where he went, he went to this concentration camp.
02:11Like, how he was effectively killing his own uncle and assassinating his own half-brother.
02:16A lot of people, I'm sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else.
02:21And he was able to do it.
02:24So, obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie.
02:27I mean, I just don't know when that kind of behavior became the praising subject.
02:32So it is mind-boggling that I don't even know what kind of reality I am in anymore.
02:38Kim Jong-un is a terrorist.
02:40He's killing us, he's oppressing us, he's starving us.
02:44And he's a murderer.