North korean Quote by Mike Kim

“Stalin has died. The ardent heart of the great leader of progressive mankind has ceased to beat. This sad news has spread over Korean…

— Anonymous

“Ever since setting foot in North Korea more than thirty years before, I’d known nothing but hunger. Everyone had been halfway to starvation for…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This is the year of agriculture,” he announced in 1992. “The nation must realize the people’s century-long dream to eat white rice and meat…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“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

“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

“During the 1950s, South Korea was “the poorest, most impossible country on this planet,” according to a long-time advisor to President Park Chung-hee, Kim…

— Daniel Tudor

“Koreans are good at engaging in crisis,” he said, pointing to all the times the country had been invaded—by Britain, Russia, China, Japan, and…

— Euny Hong

“If you took some North Korean songs and replaced Kim Il Sung with God or Jesus it would sound exactly like a Christian hymn.”

— Mike Kim

“The result was a serious famine between 1994 and 1998 that claimed the lives of between 200,000 and three million North Koreans.”

— Daniel Tudor

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began…

— Barbara Demick

“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