100 Quotes by Park Yeon-mi

I thought North Koreans were the only people who hated Americans, but turns out there are a lot of people hating this country in this country.

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever see men as normal people and I could never trust them. I couldn't bear any human connection with men.

I'll live longer than Kim Jong-un - he's fatter than me. He doesn't like me.

We don't have friends in North Korea. We only have comrades. There's no concept of friends.

I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.

I have visited slums in Mumbai, I have visited slums in other countries, but nothing is like North Korea because North Korean starvation, it's a systematic starvation by a country that chose to starve us.

English is my third language.

North Korea spends billions of dollars to make this nuke test system. If they would spend just 20 percent of what they spent on making nuclear weapons, nobody would have to die in North Korea from hunger but the regime chose to make us hungry.

I don't think anyone should have power over me, or have the right to tell me what to say or how to think. That's not right. I want to be free.