Freedom Quote by Min Jin Lee

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

— Mike Huckabee

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

— Ingrid Betancourt

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

— Elise Hu

All of North Korea is a jail.

— Kim Young-sam

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

— George W. Bush

We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom,…

— Kang Chol-hwan

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it…

— Terry Waite

“If we give in to the hijackers’ demands and release terrorists,” I said during one of the heated government meetings over the coming week,…

— Shimon Peres

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think…

— Margaret Mead

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

— Valerie Plame

What you need to know about North Korea is that it's not like other countries like Iran or Cuba. In those countries, you have…

— Park Yeon-mi

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

— Alberto Fujimori