North Korea Quotes

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He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow." —Justin Rohrlich, Emmy Award Winner, Head Writer, Minyanville's World In Review

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Logic is not a sure enough defense against moral bankruptcy.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.