North korean Quote by Daniel Tudor

“The main cause of North Korea’s recent social change is actually a tragic one: the famine of the mid 1990s, in which at least…

— Daniel Tudor

A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“Ever since setting foot in North Korea more than thirty years before, I’d known nothing but hunger. Everyone had been halfway to starvation for…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Things were ultimately exacerbated by a series of devastating floods in 1994 and 1995, which destroyed around 1.5 million tons of grain and ruined…

— Daniel Tudor

The possibility of change in North Korea arose from its greatest calamity - the famine in the 1990s, in which over a million of…

— Tom Malinowski

“If our troubles were purely the result of US imperialism, why weren’t South Koreans starving too?”

— Masaji Ishikawa

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

— John Bolton

“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean…

— Reg Whitaker

I have seen first-hand the devastation the North repeatedly causes to Korean families and the narratives of war and destruction they have routinely spouted.

— Michelle Steel

I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from 1995 to…

— Park Yeon-mi

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari