79 Quotes About North-korea
- Author Kang Chol-Hwan
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[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!
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- Author Sylvain Neuvel
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North Korean troops gathering… inside North Korea.That is unheard of.""They were massing very close to the border.""North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them to gather very far from the border.
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- Author Barbara Demick
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As she sat alone in the apartment, the enormity of it all started to sink in. Any hope that the North Korean regime might change with the death of Kim Il-sung was quickly dashed. The power had passed to his son. Things weren't going to get any better. She heard her father's words replaying in her ears. "The son is even worse than the father." "Now we're really fucked," she said to herself. Only then did tears of self-pity fill her eyes.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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The state was founded, actually, I think the year that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. And it's as if they sort of took the book and thought, I wonder if we could make this work?
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- Author Fuad Alakbarov
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Western governments invaded Iraq, dismantled Libya, interfered without success in Yemen and Syria. Yet North Korea causes all the trouble?
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- Author Kang Chol-Hwan
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Only around 1983 did I begin to realize that not he but rather Kim Il-sung and his regime were the real causes of my suffering. They were the ones responsible for the camp and for filling it with innocent people. All during my childhood, Kim Il-sung had been like a god to me. A few years in the camp cured me of my faith.
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- Author Roger Scruton
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.
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- Author Aaron B. Powell
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You really wanna take care of North Korea? I’ll tell you what to do: grab a couple of devout Christians and dress em’ up as Kim Jong-un and drop their asses into North Korea armed with Bibles and methamphetamines. They’ll either convert everybody or call em’ sinners and murder every last one of them. Problem solved.
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- Author Barbara Demick
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Liberty and loveThese two I must have.For my love I’ll sacrificeMy life.For liberty I’ll sacrificeMy love.”1 January 1823, Petőfi Sándor was born in Kiskörös, Hungary.
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