Concentration camp Quote by David Baldacci

“The oldest of North Korean labor camps, Bukchang had been hosting dissidents and alleged enemies of the state since the fifties .”

— David Baldacci

“Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas of the…

— David Priestland

“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

“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their…

— Christopher Hitchens

“During the 1950s, South Korea was “the poorest, most impossible country on this planet,” according to a long-time advisor to President Park Chung-hee, Kim…

— Daniel Tudor

“It is worth noting here how extraordinary it was for anyone to be homeless in North Korea. This was, after all, the country that…

— Barbara Demick

“I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out. If you…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“This was the first time I had ever known that North Korea has gay people. I am embarrassed to admit that I had thought…

— Hyeonseo Lee

“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

“It was inevitable that the United States should take the position that the North Korean Communist State must now be destroyed for its lawlessness…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite…

— Adam Johnson