Top 1200 North Korea Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom of speech, we who do should push it as far as we need to.

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

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.

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

THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops would be at the Yalu River and they've seen that movie before. They didn't like it the first time they saw it and they don't like it any better today. So they are quite happy with the divided Korean peninsula and that's a fundamental difference between the way they see things and the way we see things.

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.

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

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.

I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain.

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.

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.

In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

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

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

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

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

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.

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

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive.

Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.

North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.

Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more.

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.

It's clear the relationship between China and North Korea has hardly ever been worse. Kim Jong-un has never been to Beijing in his leadership. The Chinese press are saying some amazingly negative things about the north, and about Kim Jong-un. So - so they are weighing in, and they are bringing greater pressure. Whether it will be enough I think remains to be seen.

Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.

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

They are always open to come to South Korea and play, because we never reject North Korean athletes.

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

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

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.

The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.