Alternate Quote by Adam Johnson

“North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Kwon Tae-jin, a specialist on North Korean agriculture at the Korea Rural Economic Institute, which is funded by the South Korean government, told me…

— Blaine Harden

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They…

— Henry Rollins

“This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or in the East…

— Barbara Demick

“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Stalin has died. The ardent heart of the great leader of progressive mankind has ceased to beat. This sad news has spread over Korean…

— Anonymous

In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving. He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that?

— Park Yeon-mi

“[Hooni Kim] is pleased at the global Hallyu phenomenon, but he doesn't think that food has a place in Hallyu. "For me food is…

— Euny Hong

“The work’s persistent popularity in the modern era can be explained by its elevation of a neglected secondary son as a great hero. In…

— Heo Gyun

“So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing number of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great…

— Mao Zedong