Joe Rogan's recent interview with a North Korean defector has been hailed as his best yet. The horrifying interview with defector Yeonmi Park aired on Spotify on August 3, with the human rights activist opening up about life in North Korea and her harrowing escape with her mother. The more than three-hour-long podcast provides a rare insight into Park's experience in one of the world's most secretive countries. Discussing the levels of starvation people face, Yeonmi said: "The hardest thing as a child for me was when my mom goes away to find food. We don't have phones, we don't have letters. If I say goodbye to her, I don't know when I'm going to see her again or if I'm ever going to see her again. "Because she could have [been] killed, and raped and starved." Listen to an excerpt from the harrowing podcast below:  [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMK1KEk5OdU]] She went on to explain how she was forced to see human remains discarded around the area on a daily basis. "Seeing bodies on the street is an everyday thing," she said. "They are floating in the rivers. Train stations have a lot of dead bodies." Yeonmi explained that when she went to collect fresh drinking water on one occasion, she saw a young boy with his intestines "hanging out his back" from malnourishment. She said that his condition was so bad that dogs had already started to hover around him because they expected him to pass and become their next meal. "I felt nothing and that still haunts me to this day," she said. "Like I don't know how I feel nothing...that was a daily life thing." <img class="wp-image-1263121310 " src="https://img.vt.co/2021/08/Park-1.jpg" alt="Yeonmi Park." width="493" height="606" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: Alamy / PA Images]] On another occasion, she revealed, she had a bad stomach ache that turned out to be her appendix rupturing. She was subsequently treated for the condition without an anaesthetic, which is common in the country, and she added that medical equipment is rarely sterilized either. Yeonmi claims that one of the most horrific things she saw were rats eating people's eyeballs, and children catching these rats to eat - sometimes cooking them on a fire and other times eating them raw. Of the almost two thousand interviews conducted by Joe Rogan, people believe this is the best one. Reacting to the footage on YouTube, one viewer wrote: "That was the most insane out of this world craziest Rogan interview I've ever [watched]. "In my top 5, this has to be shared and shared and reshared so people realized what is going on out there (and here in the west also). HUGE props to Joe for leading this interview so perfectly." <img class="wp-image-1263121296" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-06-at-09.43.34.png" alt="A YouTube comment." width="675" height="156" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: YouTube]] A second added: "Conversations like this is the reason why this podcast is important. We'd never hear this type of story told this detailed without interruption in any mainstream news outlets." <img class="wp-image-1263121297" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-06-at-09.44.41.png" alt="A YouTube comment." width="688" height="152" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: YouTube]] A third said: "This episode genuinely changed my outlook on life. I can't stop thinking about it." <img class="wp-image-1263121305" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-06-at-10.16.41.png" alt="A YouTube comment." width="696" height="125" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: YouTube]] Meanwhile, a fourth wrote: "Her whole story literally made me tear up. It is hard to imagine that this sort of thing still happens in the 21st-century. But it does. More than want to know. We are so fortunate to be Americans. Fat and lazy as we may be." <img class="wp-image-1263121306" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-06-at-10.17.26.png" alt="A YouTube comment." width="718" height="146" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: YouTube]] The full episode of the podcast is available to listen to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G5o6GYjWgbSvKG3W2W2xO">here</a>. <h6>Featured image credit: Alamy / Sipa US</h6>

Joe Rogan's interview with North Korean defector has left listeners in tears

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