Desperate Quote by Park Yeon-mi

I escaped a North Korean prison camp

— Shindong

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

I am one of the lucky North Koreans who made it out of China. North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.

— Moon Jae-in

Even after arriving in South Korea, it's dangerous. As a North Korean defector, I need to be careful from the spies to protect my…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

— Park Yeon-mi

I remember hearing my mom saying so many times we should never have left Korea. She would see the way that I was growing…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

— Chester W. Nimitz

I wanted to show North Korean people that they have hope, and they can be free someday, like myself.

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— Mike Huckabee

“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