Good morning this morning. I have a really nice and good tip for everyone who enjoys a podcast. And can entertain themselves for hours with it. My tip for today lasts three hours and thirteen minutes... So you have some time. But believe me: you won't be bored for a single moment.

It's about an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, presented by — yes — Joe Rogan. In this episode, he is in conversation with Yeonmi Park, a 27-year-old woman who managed to escape from North Korea in 2007. She has written the book ‘In Order to Live’ about her experiences and advocates for human rights. In this podcast, she is a guest and talks about her escape from North Korea, what she had to do for it, and everything she experienced while she still lived there.

Let me start by stating that I have a huge fascination for North Korea and have always wanted to know and read everything about it. That a country can be so secretive, with such a terrible guy in power — not to mention what people there have to endure daily... You can hardly believe it, right? That such things can still happen nowadays. Because what Park has experienced is nothing short of shocking. So also a warning: if you can't handle this kind of horror scenarios very well, it might not be the podcast for you.

Because there are really gruesome stories being told. She describes in detail that she witnessed so much death and destruction that she became completely stoic. Making your way past the corpses was an everyday occurrence. In the subway stations, she had to step over them, rodents that were already feeding on them... It's truly unimaginable that people live like this. She managed to escape, but North Korea has about 25 million inhabitants.

One of the most impressive podcasts I have listened to lately. Just a disclaimer: it is in English, but I found it easy to follow.