Bird Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to…

— Christopher Hitchens

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally'…

— Christopher Hitchens

North Korea is an unimaginable country. We aren't free to sing, say, wear or think what we want.

— Park Yeon-mi

“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical…

— Christopher Hitchens

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you…

— David Brooks

“North Korea, which straddles categories: a nation-state with the instincts of a terrorist organization.”

— Ted Koppel

“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

What you need to know about North Korea is that it's not like other countries like Iran or Cuba. In those countries, you have…

— Park Yeon-mi

“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“As contemporaries, Shin and Kim Jong Eun personify the antipodes of privilege and privation in North Korea, a nominally classless society where, in fact,…

— Blaine Harden

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

— George W. Bush