Quotes About North Korea

I'd been seen the day before in a neighborhood that wasn't up to revolutionary standards, photographing a pile of garbage cans. It's forbidden. Garbage is not a good souvenir of North Korea. There are so many beautiful things to photograph.

en todas las habitaciones, de todos los edificios, de toda Corea del Norte, hay colgadas en una pared las fotos de papá Kim y de su retoño. Excepto en los váteres... Of course.

Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure.

North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

At the State Department, I oversaw the U.S. government's efforts to get information into North Korea. We funded defector-run radio stations, which had the added benefit of training North Koreans to be journalists.

Staying in China provided me with the opportunity to adjust to life outside of North Korea and to gain a sense of perspective, most importantly, by learning that so much of what I had been taught about my country was a lie.

North Korea is really just the kid who decided he'd be 'all out crazy,' hoping people would be scared off by the tirades and avoid stepping up to the plate.

China is a heaven compared to North Korea.

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

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

I know North Korea is the most ridiculous country in the world, but for me, my mum, my brother, and my families and old memories are so important.

Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.