Korea famous quotes

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
-- Aaron Huey

#Children #War #Korea

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.
-- Alice Cooper

#Religious #Korea #People

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.
-- Andrei Lankov

#Exercise #Two #Korea

Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.
-- Andrei Lankov

#Book #Believe #Korea

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
-- Andrew Young

#Iran #Korea #Want

The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea,
-- Antonio Guterres

#Country #Differences #Korea

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Government #Korea #People

The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.
-- Ari Fleischer

#Agreement #Korea #Nuclear

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?
-- Barbara Demick

#Country #Song #Korea

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?
-- Barbara Demick

#Heart #Simple #Korea

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.
-- Barbara Demick

#Night #Dust #Korea

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
-- Benjamin Spock

#War #Korea #Vietnam

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

#Time #Army #Korea

I don’t think it’s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... I’d like to see the world’s governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.
-- Bindi Irwin

#Thinking #Korea #Leader

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
-- Bong Joon-ho

#Korea #Censorship

People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Korea #People #Republic

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers

#Korea #Support #Needs

If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.
-- Bryan Fischer

#Thinking #Korea #America

Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.
-- Carlos Eire

#Korea #Soul #Everyday

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.
-- Casey Kasem

#Team #Opportunity #Korea

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
-- Cathy Freeman

#Meaningful #Korea #Chance

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.
-- Charles Krauthammer

#Korea #Cuba #Lasts

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
-- Chuck Norris

#Art #School #Korea

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.... Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
-- Curtis LeMay

#War #Korea #Years

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God I hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut.
-- Dave Chappelle

#Country #Korea #Land

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
-- David Alan Grier

#Father #Korea #Polio

Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment.
-- David Kay

#Military #Technology #Korea

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.
-- Dennis Rodman

#Cutting #Korea #Leader

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.
-- Dick Cheney

#Iran #Order #Korea

The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
-- Douglas MacArthur

#Writing #Korea #Achievement

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
-- Edward Luck

#Korea #Want #Proud

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.
-- Edwin O. Reischauer

#Country #Writing #Korea

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
-- Ellen Tauscher

#Leadership #Iran #Korea

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
-- F. Murray Abraham

#War #Thinking #Korea

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
-- Fernando Alonso

#Race #Japan #Korea

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
-- Frank Carlucci

#Iraq #Keys #Korea

Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.
-- Frank Gaffney

#Mean #Iran #Korea

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.
-- Frank Schaeffer

#Korea #Principles #Degrees

As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
-- George Blake

#Korea #Kgb #Trying

For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.
-- Goh Chok Tong

#Media #Korea #Years

As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Technology #Korea #Hair

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.
-- Hark-Joon Lee

#Stars #Reality #Korea

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.
-- Helen Clark

#Thinking #Issues #Korea

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
-- Helen Clark

#Japan #Korea #People

We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
-- Ike Skelton

#Iran #Korea #Years

If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?
-- James Morcan

#War #Korea #Enemy

Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons. We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that. There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Thinking #Iran #Korea

What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.
-- Janice Y. K. Lee

#Husband #Father #Korea

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
-- Jared Diamond

#Kings #Writing #Korea

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
-- Jennifer Armintrout

#Korea #Horror #Satire

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
-- John Bolton

#Korea #Nuclear #Weapons

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.
-- John Bruton

#Korea #Nuclear #Weapons

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
-- Joichi Ito

#Strong #Korea #Ties

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
-- Joichi Ito

#Believe #Japan #Korea

Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues,
-- Junichiro Koizumi

#Japan #Korea #Issues

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Light #Korea #Two

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Korea #Germany #East

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Military #Successful #Korea

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Korea #Want #Regimes

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Japan #Korea #Forever

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Government #Korea #Target

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Government #Korea #Serious

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Struggle #Japan #Korea

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Doors #Korea #North Korea

Kim Il Sung not only presided over the birth of a new nation in an old land, he was inextricably bound to the fate of North Korea. Perhaps to a greater degree than any other modern political leader, he may be seen as the full embodiment of the state. Indeed, Kim was more integral to state and society in North Korea than Stalin in the Soviet Union, or Mao in China.
-- Kim Il-sung

#Fate #Korea #Land

To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.
-- Kim Il-sung

#Korea #People #Inspire

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
-- Kim Young-sam

#Country #Korea #Needs

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
-- Kim Young-sam

#Thinking #Korea #Issues

All of North Korea is a jail.
-- Kim Young-sam

#Korea #Jail #North Korea

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.
-- Kim Young-sam

#Military #Korea #Genocide

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.
-- Koichi Haraguchi

#Past #Korea #Issues

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
-- Larry Hagman

#Real #War #Korea

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?
-- Laura Ingraham

#Queens #Russia #Korea

Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments -- as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines -- results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.
-- Lawrence Summers

#Country #Commitment #Korea

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Country #Blessed #Korea

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Korea #Perspective #Chinese

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Korea #Investment #Restriction

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Korea #People #Majority

My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Jobs #Korea #Wife

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Korea #Numbers #Perspective

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.
-- Lee Myung-bak

#Ambition #Korea #Important

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
-- Leon Panetta

#Thinking #Issues #Korea

An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.
-- Lewis M. Branscomb

#Government #Korea #Challenges

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

#Agreement #Korea #Nuclear

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

#Real #Iran #Korea

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.
-- Michael Moore

#Country #Korea #America

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
-- Mike Johanns

#Korea #Japan #Goal

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Korea #Agreement #Intention

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Thinking #Korea #People

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
-- Mitchell Reiss

#Country #Korea #Nuclear

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

#Korea #Different #North Korea

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I dont see why they cant engage with Iran.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Iran #Korea #North Korea

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb,
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Korea #Plutonium #Bombs

If they think they can get anyone who could have better handled the complex and difficult issues surrounding North Korea, Iran and other controversies, they are not understanding the world right now.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Thinking #Iran #Korea

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
-- Noah Feldman

#War #Korea #President

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
-- Park Geun-hye

#Country #Korea #Worry

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
-- Park Geun-hye

#Korea #Two #Leader

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.
-- Peter Lerangis

#Country #Dog #Korea

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.
-- Peter Singer

#Government #Korea #Two

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.
-- Pico Iyer

#Easter #Past #Korea