Book Quote by Park Yeon-mi

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books…

— Adam Johnson

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

With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is…

— Linda Sue Park

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

My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.

— Lee Hyeon-seo

North Korea is still my homeland, my country. I suffered on the outside because I was alien, without identity. I was nobody. I was…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

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

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

— Park Yeon-mi

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

Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

— Park Chung-hee

North Korea was pretty insane. Like the first thing my mom taught me was don't even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me.…

— Park Yeon-mi

It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and…

— Lee Hyeon-seo