100 Quotes by Park Yeon-mi

When I saw my father's death it was not human, he was less better than an animal and I didn't want the end of my life to be like that.

When I was in South Korea, the books that I read about Americans were actually Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. If this country actually oppresses people and enslaves the people, how are those two women billionaires?

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

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

I did everything I can to be free and escaped.

I never heard my father telling my mother that he loved her. And my mother never told me she loved me, either.

I was living in the border area with China, in Hyesan City. But after my father was imprisoned for informal trading, I escaped to China.

My concern is: How on earth is anything more urgent than the lives of people in North Korean concentration camps?

Why would North Korea people care if they have nukes or not? All they want is food. They want freedom.