North Korean Quotes

• North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Leader, Korean

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• We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

  Evan Bayh

  Rights, People, Helping

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• North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Morning, Clothes

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• I escaped a North Korean prison camp

  Shindong

  Korean, Prison, North Korea

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• The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

  Lee Hyeon-seo

  Motivation, Kindness, Inspiration

  "Why I fled North Korea" By Hyeonseo Lee, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2013.

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• There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.

  Robert Gallucci

  Military, War, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

  Tucker Carlson

  Writing, People, Korean

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.

  Jay Leno

  Korea, Microsoft, Bills

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• The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Weekend, Thank God

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• We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and pursuing a stable relationship with their neighbors. Instead, we've seen a lot of provocations and a flouting of international norms and obligations.

  Josh Earnest

  Commitment, Welcome, Korean

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• The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark reality of the Korean situation, as well as of the long-cherished aspiration of the 50 million Koreans. The North Koreans have already constructed a number of underground invasion tunnels across the Demilitarized Zone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Reality, Usa

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

  John Bolton

  Way, Korean, Problem

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Doubt, Dollars

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

  Donald Trump

  Korean, North Korea

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The message that we must send to North Korea is twofold: If the North Korean regime believes that it can defend and protect itself through nuclear and missile programs, that is a misjudgment. But if North Korea gives up its nuclear program, we will help it secure and develop itself. We must consistently send these two messages.

  Moon Jae-in

  Giving Up, Believe, Helping

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• North Korea continues to advance its nuclear technology and will soon reach weaponization. Regarding its intercontinental ballistic missiles, it is continuously making progress. So currently, it is urgent for us to freeze North Korea's program so they will stop additional provocations and stop advancement of its technologies. I believe during my upcoming summit meeting in the U.S. I will be able to discuss a two-phased approach to the North Korean nuclear issue - the first being a freeze and the second being complete dismantlement.

  Moon Jae-in

  Believe, Technology, Progress

  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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• If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Korean, North Korea

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Korean, North Korea

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?

  Christopher R. Hill

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are saying we have a nuclear program. We are seeking weapons. We have produced weapons. We're proud of the fact that we have weapons.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Different, Nuclear, Proud

  "Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

  David Letterman

  Naughty, Santa, Today

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• Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  Park Chan-wook

  Growing Up, School, Devil

  "Park life". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2006.

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• It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

  John Bolton

  People, Kim, Blame

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