Quotes About North Korea

In North Korea, when there is an alarm, it means that there is a war drill. It means that you need to run.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

North Korea is a very Confucius country. We respect the elders, the hierarchy. It's not like America where anyone can step up and do things, we have our tradition.

Nothing is forever, and I believe that North Korea will change in my lifetime.

I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.

I can't be sure of exactly when and how North Korea will change. But I do believe it will happen, hopefully in my mother's lifetime.

We're going to push hard against China because 90 percent of the trade that happens with North Korea is from China, and so, while they have been helpful, they need to do more.

The key is we have to keep those communications together, and we all agree on one goal - a denuclearized North Korea.

How can we pressure China on North Korea if China's one of the two largest holders of American debt?

China can be a guarantor to North Korea that if they give up their nuclear capacity, the United States will not be in a position to harm them. And for the United States, China can also be a guarantor that if there is an agreement, that the agreement is effectively implemented by the North Koreans.

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

My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.

North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

The key thing in Northeast Asia is North Korea. They are unpredictable; they are developing their nuclear capabilities and their missiles.

North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.

A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck's nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: "We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

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

I believe President Trump is more reasonable than he is generally perceived. President Trump uses strong rhetoric toward North Korea, but during the election campaign, he also said he could talk over a burger with Kim Jong-un. I am for that kind of pragmatic approach to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.