Against Quote by Park Chung-hee

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini,…

— Harry S. Truman

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— David Baldacci

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of…

— Park Chung-hee

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

— Stephen Ambrose

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our…

— Paul Cook

I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea…

— Paul Keating

“Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Ted Koppel

“While the Chinese Red Guard also rooted out “capitalist roaders” during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, it resulted in a chaotic…

— Barbara Demick

There are reports that Russia is actually working with North Korea to encourage “collaboration and cooperation” between the two countries. Yeah, they believe that…

— Jimmy Fallon

People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own…

— Brian Reynolds Myers