Children Quote by Lee Hyeon-seo

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

— Valerie Plame

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in…

— Barbara Demick

“Their approach is often described as paranoid, but I will argue that there may be no alternative to the current North Korean policies if…

— Andrei Lankov

They're very dogmatic. The North Koreans, they are very programmed, they have their policy statements they don't want to diverge from. They're very doctrinaire.…

— Bill Richardson

North Koreans have a long history of promises made and then broken.

— Brian Mast

The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you…

— David Brooks

“If North Koreans paused to contemplate the obvious inconsistencies and lies in what they were told, they would find themselves in a dangerous place.…

— Barbara Demick

What you need to know about North Korea is that it's not like other countries like Iran or Cuba. In those countries, you have…

— Park Yeon-mi

We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some…

— Christopher Hitchens

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

— George W. Bush

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