Korea Quotes · Page 10

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

— Richard Linklater

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“The USA is turning into South Korea, as many people now wear COVID-19 face masks in public.”

— Steven Magee

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb,

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“I am far more fearful of the police than I am of North Korea.”

— Steven Magee

We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out.

— Donald Trump

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

— Anonymous

The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is…

— Donald Trump

“Author interview with Chun Jung-hee, head nurse at Hanawon resettlement centre in South Korea. The government-funded centre has measured and weighed North…

— Anonymous

I don't know if I want to live in a country where lone wolf and random terror attacks are impossible 'cause that…

— Erik Prince

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked.…

— Peter Lerangis

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

— Tina Fey

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision.…

— Mitchell Reiss

A North Korea that has the capability to use a nuclear weapon that can reach an American city or those of an…

— Lois Frankel

North Korea has nukes. Japan has a problem with that. I mean, they have a big problem with that. Maybe they would…

— Donald Trump

“If North Koreans paused to contemplate the obvious inconsistencies and lies in what they were told, they would find themselves in a…

— Barbara Demick

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We…

— Henry Rosovsky

South Koreans often don't think of North Korean defectors as Korean. While we have been granted citizenship, the locals don't consider us…

— Park Yeon-mi

The message that we must send to North Korea is twofold: If the North Korean regime believes that it can defend and…

— Moon Jae-in

It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's…

— Arundhati Roy

“Kim Jong-il also invented the hamburger. Almost touchingly, North Koreans have a lot of pride in their heritage, though it’s for absurd…

— Euny Hong

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many…

— Ed Royce

“It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in…

— Tucker Elliot

Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could…

— Werner Herzog

“Korea is often called the “Land of the Morning Calm.” It’s a country where you notice the filth and the smog on…

— Tucker Elliot

“Finally, in a truly Orwellian twist, the North Korean authorities took care to isolate the populace not only from the foreign media…

— Andrei Lankov

“It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is worth noting here how extraordinary it was for anyone to be homeless in North Korea. This was, after all, the…

— Barbara Demick

President Xi Jinping clearly understands, and I think agrees, that the situation in North Korea has intensified and has reached a certain…

— Rex W. Tillerson

I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing…

— John Bolton

I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

— Douglas MacArthur

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

— George W. Bush

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

— Harry S. Truman

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

— Christopher Hitchens

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

— Park Yeon-mi

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

— Darrell Issa

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was…

— Werner Herzog

In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.

— Hee-seop Choi