Character 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

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae…

— Dennis Rodman

In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals.…

— Park Yeon-mi

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that…

— Susan Estrich

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism,…

— Janos Kadar

As an immigrant from South Korea with family members who fled North Korea, supporting the North Korean people is personal to me.

— Young Kim

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

— Yi So-Yeon

“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

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission"…

— Werner Herzog

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“Self-criticism is a way of life in North Korea. Everybody has to do it, even the highest party members. Our sessions were once a…

— Charles Robert Jenkins

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of…

— Peter Coyote