North Korean Quotes - Page 2

• I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

  Richard Armitage

  Korea, Favors, Rewards

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• The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Games, Worry

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• Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, President, Asian

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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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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• I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

  Azar Nafisi

  Children, Giving Up, Pain

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• Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

  Yukiya Amano

  Country, Iran, Europe

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• So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Government, Korea, Serious

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• Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.

  Andrei Lankov

  Believe, Book, Race

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• Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Party, Japan, Usa

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Korea, Want, Regimes

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• Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Japan, Korea, Issues

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

  Tom Lantos

  Children, Growth, Suffering

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• It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Stars, Reality, Rights

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.

  Koichi Haraguchi

  Issues, Nuclear, Diplomatic Relations

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• I want them (the North Korean delegation) to understand that it would be difficult to see progress of the normalization talks unless we see their sincerity over the abduction, nuclear and missile issues.

  Koichi Haraguchi

  Issues, Progress, Would Be

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• North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Kim, Lessons, Korean

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• Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Interviews, Kim

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• If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me.

  Conan O'Brien

  Interviews, Korean, Sony

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• I have nothing against the North Koreans but this Kim Jong Un has got a screw loose. A member of his cabinet, his security minister, nods off, falls sleep. We've all done it. Kim Jong Un takes the guy out and has him executed, just for just falling asleep. Oh, and he was also deflating footballs.

  David Letterman

  Football, Fall, Sleep

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• Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

  David Letterman

  Evil, Family And Friends, Together

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• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Kim Young-sam

  Sorry, Two, Police

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• 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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