Destruction Quote by Michelle Steel

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

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

— John Bolton

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

“The main cause of North Korea’s recent social change is actually a tragic one: the famine of the mid 1990s, in which at least…

— Daniel Tudor

“The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean…

— Reg Whitaker

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way…

— Margaret Cho

“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

“Things were ultimately exacerbated by a series of devastating floods in 1994 and 1995, which destroyed around 1.5 million tons of grain and ruined…

— Daniel Tudor

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

— Moon Jae-in

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

— Jennifer Armintrout

Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North…

— Andrei Lankov