Quotes about Korea

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DPRK translates to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—and if the words Democratic and Republic sound like a good thin — Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11
The look of a smug teacher is priceless. — Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11
For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population. — Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11
It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance— — Tucker Elliot, The Day Before 9/11
Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy—open up the set, cut the conveyor — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Her younger son, twenty, was assigned to a factory that made railroad equipment, but since it provided no salary he was — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world. — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still wanted to belie — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it of — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, "People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own governm — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod. — Christina Farley, Gilded
Back then, I think, both sides were just very young. They needed to grow up enough to realize that thing get quite compl — Hwang Sok-yong, The Guest
The sword is a handle onto the Way of the world that is offering itself to you. If you are willful it will weigh a ton a — Doc Pruyne, Persimmon
He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear wa — Lee Myung-bak
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denucl — Charles B. Rangel
I will try and make peace between North and South Korea. — Yi So-Yeon