Christopher Hitchens Quotes About North Korea

Quotes about: North Korea

• [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

• The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, Korea, Religion

• Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self, Korea, Abjection

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

• When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Father, Party, Writing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Singing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Uganda, Korea, Eritrea

• But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress or hem in or punish other kinds of outlaw. Who stands behind Mugabi at the United Nations? Russia and China do. Who tried successfully to prevent the United Nations from speaking with one voice on its most signal violation of its resolutions, Iraq? Russia and China, again. North Korea the same. Burma the same.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Block, Moving, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

• We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with at some point, who have been raised to believe that they live in a regime that is run by a god.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Children, Believe

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Play, Pieces

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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