Assuming Quote by Christopher Hitchens

North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“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

“[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

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began…

— Barbara Demick

“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

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

— Adam Johnson

“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified and, to…

— Blaine Harden

“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 Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety in feudalism…

— Bradley K. Martin

I thought Kim Jong Il was a god who could read my mind. I thought his spirit never dies, and I never thought he…

— Park Yeon-mi

“If you took some North Korean songs and replaced Kim Il Sung with God or Jesus it would sound exactly like a Christian hymn.”

— Mike Kim