Kim il sung Quote by Christopher Hitchens

If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in…

— Michael Parenti

“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

Do you know why the big brother is born first? It’s to protect the little brothers and sisters that come after him. A brother…

— Tite Kubo

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

“North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and…

— Max Brooks

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

“This is the year of agriculture,” he announced in 1992. “The nation must realize the people’s century-long dream to eat white rice and meat…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“My father, however, seemed quite content with our new life. He never hit my mother. He started working as an agricultural laborer on a…

— Masaji Ishikawa

As for Kim Jong-un, first of all, he tried to kill his half brother in 2012, and according to South Koreans, the half brother,…

— Christopher R. Hill

“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

“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

“Two and a half million people died when North Korean dictator Kim II Sung invaded South Korea in 1950.”

— Mike Kim