Face Quote by Lee Hyeon-seo

My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, however egregious, can be confronted, lest it…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

— Park Yeon-mi

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find…

— Andrei Lankov

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North…

— Park Yeon-mi

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

“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

We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and…

— Josh Earnest

North Korea is no threat at all. I have already spoken about it during countless televised interviews. I visited North Korea and mingled with…

— Andre Vltchek