Cannot Quote by Park Yeon-mi

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

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

— Park Yeon-mi

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North…

— Park Yeon-mi

“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

It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.

— Moon Jae-in

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“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

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

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

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

— Adam Johnson

I have seen first-hand the devastation the North repeatedly causes to Korean families and the narratives of war and destruction they have routinely spouted.

— Michelle Steel

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

— Ted Koppel