Introduction #
Hi everyone, Elwood here to introduce another post:
This was a podcast uploaded shortly after the release of MEGA: Yeonmi and North Korea between Serene Desiree and Massi. Serene is a podcaster who discusses social and political issues, she got in touch shortly after the release of our documentary into Yeonmi, linking to her own video on the topic and mentioning that she had a different conclusion to us:
We checked our her video and Massi posted a lengthy comment responding to her interpretations around Yeonmi, pointing out many of her discrepancies and inviting Serene to a podcast, shortly after this production was put together.
The podcast discusses the issues we raised in the MEGA documentary as well as other cases of Yeonmi misleading her audience, including a specific video where she lied by ommission, presenting parody subtitles added to a North Korean state media report as if they were real, a topic that later got its own short followup after the podcast was recorded:
Because we don’t have a transcription of the podcast on hand, this page will just be video only, hopefully you find it interesting nonetheless!
(PS. I haven’t credited myself for this article because although I’ve written this short intro, I wasn’t involved in the podcast itself.)
This video was originally released on the 15th of February 2022, it was added to the website on the 7th of March 2024.