{"quotes":[{"text":"But as I began to write this book, I realised that without the whole truth my life would have no power, no real meaning. With the help of my mother, the memories of our lives in North Korea and China cane back to me like scenes from a forgotten nightmare. Some of the images reappeared with a terrible clarity; others were hazy, or scrambled like a deck of cards spilled on the floor. The process of writing has been the process of remembering, and of trying to make sense out of those memories.","author":"Yeonmi Park","tags":["clarity","memories","north-korea","remember","writing"],"id":19315,"author_id":"Yeonmi+Park"},{"text":"First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no murderously repressive regimes might remain.","author":"Daniel Kofman","tags":["afghanistan","antiwar-movement","axis-of-evil","despotism","foreign-policy","foreign-policy-of-the-us","interventionism","iran","iraq","iraq-war","north-korea","repression","syria","war","war-in-afghanistan-2001-present"],"id":25821,"author_id":"Daniel+Kofman"},{"text":"People say mountains change in about ten years. If something as stubborn and mammoth as a mountain can change in a decade, the hearts of ordinary North Koreans can change. I'm sure of it. I'm living proof.' --Ha Young, a North Korean defector.","author":"Jieun Baek","tags":["change","defector","information","inspiration","inspirational","north-korea"],"id":41581,"author_id":"Jieun+Baek"},{"text":"Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["cults","dictatorship","kim-il-sung","north-korea","psychology","subordination"],"id":48255,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.","author":"Kang Chol-Hwan","tags":["hunger","north-korea","people","poverty","society"],"id":67523,"author_id":"Kang+Chol-Hwan"},{"text":"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["bolivarianism","death","exhumation","hugo-chavez","kim-il-sung","kim-jong-il","media","media-of-north-korea","north-korea","reincarnation","simon-bolivar"],"id":72587,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Abt Draws from a trove of personal experience to create a vivid account of the people and place. Along the way, Abt addresses big questions such as economic reform and practical ones such as how to use e–commerce to achieve brand recognition in North Korea.","author":"Jeff Baron","tags":["book","jeff-baron","john-hopkins","north-korea","review","u-s-korea-institute"],"id":90939,"author_id":"Jeff+Baron"},{"text":"Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still wanted to believe that her country was the best place in the world. The beliefs she had cherished for a lifetime would be vindicated. But now she couldn’t deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea.","author":"Barbara Demick","tags":["communism","north-korea"],"id":95762,"author_id":"Barbara+Demick"},{"text":"What is the life of one person worth? Although the Supreme leader Kim Jong-un is not suicidal, life to him is relatively cheap, after all he had his half-brother murdered. The countries population of almost 25 million people is harshly subjugated and the military consists of 5,200,000 men and women both active and in the reserves. Although his military ranks as 25th of the worlds military powers, it is the development of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems that makes Kim Jong-un so dangerous. It is estimated that they have about a dozen nuclear devices that could most likely be delivered as far as Japan. Of course their future targets, including the United States are more ambitious. In contrast to their troop strength, the United States has 1,400,000 personnel under arms, South Korea has only 624,465 and China has 2,333,000 personnel. Our advantage is primarily technical, however regardless of our superiority in battlefield technology, oil which they get from China, remains the lifeblood of their supporting economy and army. North Korea has threatened to fire missiles at the U. S. Military bases in Okinawa and Guam. The reality of a war is that we would most likely win such a conflict but at a very high cost. The biggest losers of a war on the Korean Peninsula would be South Korea, North Korea and the United States in that order. If there were to be a winner it would be Russia. What are we thinking? Perhaps we should come up with a better strategy.","author":"Captain Hank Bracker","tags":["american-history","current-events","north-korea","war"],"id":117766,"author_id":"Captain+Hank+Bracker"},{"text":"Every country has its own problem too numerous to name, so does North Korea. And it’s no one’s business to solve the latter’s problem unless it seeks for it. If North Korea shows off its nuclear weapon capability, it’s because its sovereignty was threatened by foreign powers. It doesn’t want to happen to its country what’s happening now in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yemen. Justice and charity begin at home, not at someone’s backyard. Hence, any country trying to solve North Korea’s problem by force or by any means should start first in its own backyard and solve the political and social injustices, divisions, and neglect suffered by its own citizens.","author":"Danny Castillones Sillada","tags":["foreign-powers","north-korea","nuclear-weapon","social-injustice","social-responsibility","sovereignty","superpower","war"],"id":130953,"author_id":"Danny+Castillones+Sillada"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}