North Korea Quotes - Page 10

• I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

  Kim Young-sam

  Thinking, Issues, Korea

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• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  Adam Johnson

  Unique, Korea, Would Be

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

  Adam Johnson

  Country, Eye, Korea

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• I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

  Adam Johnson

  Book, Thinking, Light

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• All of North Korea is a jail.

  Kim Young-sam

  Korea, Jail

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• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Character, Korea

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• Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

  Robin Cook

  Brother, Iran, Korea

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• North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, June 10, 2006.

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• 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 state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, People, Republic

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• I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.

  Marco Rubio

  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Korea, Long

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, Mean, Government

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

  Moon Jae-in

  Stress, President, Dialogue

  "South Korean leader says he shares 'common' goal with Trump" by Elizabeth Shim, www.upi.com. June 20, 2017.

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• You can never be sure of anything, can you? But I developed a very good relationship. I don't think China want to see a destabilized North Korea. I don't think they want to see it. They certainly don't want to see nuclear on - from their neighbor. They haven't liked it for a long time. But we'll have to see what happens.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Good Relationship, Long

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Children, Office

  George W. Bush Discusses North Korea, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2008.

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  Insulting, November, Democratic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• During the periods when South Korea played a more active role, the inter-Korean relationship was more peaceful, and there was less tension between the United States and North Korea. The last U.S. administration pursued a policy of strategic patience and did not make any effort to improve its relationship with North Korea. Also, the previous Korean government did not make any such efforts. The result is the reality you see today - North Korea continuing to advance its nuclear and missile program.

  Moon Jae-in

  Reality, Effort, Peaceful

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right.

  Moon Jae-in

  Priorities, Korean, Resolution

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• As long as North Korea continues its provocations, I believe that we will have no choice but to apply additional and strong pressure on it. At the same time, it is also important to send out a message to North Korea that if it decides to denuclearize and to come to the negotiating table, then we are willing to assist them.

  Moon Jae-in

  Strong, Believe, Long

  "South Korea’s new president: ‘Trump and I have a common goal’". www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2017.

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• We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Korea, Bombs, Plutonium

  "North Korea an 'imminent threat'". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2005.

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• Great ideology creates great times.

  Kim Jong Il

  Politics, Ideology, Great Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen a Chinese aircraft carrier sitting inside the Persian Gulf? For at least 40 years, the United States of America has been guaranteeing Chinese energy supplies. Sitting here today, the US provides funds to, honest to God, 99 percent of the countries on the planet. We even give North Korea humanitarian aid. We give them food, and God knows what they do with it. They probably feed it to the crooks in the headquarters.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Giving, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.

  James Mattis

  Waiting, Threat, Rhetoric

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

  George W. Bush

  Axes, Iran, Korea

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• We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom, and the opportunity to live has humans. These are my friends, my family, and my fellow North Koreans.

  Kang Chol-hwan

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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