--- title: "4 Bradley K. Martin Quotes" description: "Bradley K. Martin has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-bradley-k-martin-65602.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Bradley K. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-bradley-k-martin-65602.jpg) # Bradley K. Martin **4** quotes in **13** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Bradley K. Martin > [“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-k-martin/in-hwang-s-view-the-pyongyang-leadership-used-the-feudalistic-idea-of/) [Bradley K. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-k-martin/) [Feudalism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feudalism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/bradley-k-martin-65602_filial-piety_in-hwang-s-view-the-pyongyang-leadership_1019369.jpg) > [“In the early 1970s the regime dropped a very clear official hint that a close relative would become Kim Il-sung’s successor. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-k-martin/in-the-early-1970s-the-regime-dropped-a-very-clear-official-hint-that/) [Bradley K. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-k-martin/) [Succession](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/succession/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/bradley-k-martin-65602_quote_in-the-early-1970s-the-regime-dropped-a_1318514.jpg) > [“European who served for many years as a diplomat in Pyongyang, with postings there off and on from the 1970s into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-k-martin/european-who-served-for-many-years-as-a-diplomat-in-pyongyang-with/) [Bradley K. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-k-martin/) [Korea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/korea/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/bradley-k-martin-65602_korea_european-who-served-for-many-years-as-a_2256969.jpg) > [“In North Korea a person has two lives, natural and political. But once you get sent to a prison camp your political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-k-martin/in-north-korea-a-person-has-two-lives-natural-and-political-but-once/) [Bradley K. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-k-martin/) [Execution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/execution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72c/bradley-k-martin-65602_execution_in-north-korea-a-person-has-two-lives-na_2778086.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-k-martin/#itemlist", "name": "Bradley K. Martin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety in feudalism demands that children regard their parents as their benefactors and masters because they would not have existed without their parents. Taking care of your parents, the people who gave you life—in other words, being dutiful children—is the ultimate goal in life and the highest moral code. The state is a unity of families, and the head of all these families is none other than the king.” Hence the role that the leadership devised for Kim Il-sung: father of the people. In the same way that a person’s physical life came from his parents, his sociopolitical life came from the Great Leader. And the regime maintained that this sociopolitical life was far more precious than mere physical existence, which even animals possessed.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bradley K. 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