Government Quote by Lee Hyeon-seo

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

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

Most people in the country didn't - and might still not - know about how powerful the United States is. They think North Korean…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off by every…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two…

— Lee Hyeon-seo