Great leader Quote by Max 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

“My father, however, seemed quite content with our new life. He never hit my mother. He started working as an agricultural laborer on a…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“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

“It is also generally assumed that, despite this rancor, the ultimate reunification of North and South must be the dream of all Koreans. However,…

— Daniel Tudor

“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and…

— Homer B. Hulbert

“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

“You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in" she said. "Staying out of trouble," I said.”

— Chang-rae Lee

“Even South Koreans themselves struggle mightily to fit into their own success-obsessed, status-conscious, education-crazed culture.”

— Blaine Harden

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

— David Baldacci

“North Korea, which straddles categories: a nation-state with the instincts of a terrorist organization.”

— Ted Koppel

“We were taught that the United States brutally slaughters our brothers and sisters in the south. That we must free the people of South…

— Masaji Ishikawa