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North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Love
Home
Suffering
Hate
People
Pure
Country
Nice
Kind
Citizens
Korea
Koreans
Dictator
North
North Korea
Regime
Really
Million
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
Barbara Demick
Life
Real Life
Beneath
Else
Complexity
Parades
See
Life Goes On
Faces
Gymnastics
Emotion
Mass
Smiles
Real
Koreans
Doing
North
Fixed
Same
Goes
Human
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
Barbara Demick
You
Phone
Post
Few
Telephone
Phone Call
Post Office
Had
Make
Call
Koreans
Go
North
Office
Used
Ever
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
Barbara Demick
Government
Best
World
Result
Crime
Country
Live
Difficult
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Broadcast
Worse
Locked
Foreign
Koreans
North
Listen
May
Much
Serious
Lives
Koreans are hilarious.
Bobby Lee
Hilarious
Koreans
Like the French, Koreans aim for a subtle and effortless look - while actually paying a lot of attention to the details.
Claudia Kim
Aim
Details
Attention
Like
Look
French
Koreans
Lot
Effortless
Subtle
While
Paying
Actually
The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
David Douglas Duncan
Fire
Fighting
Marines
Later
Feared
Allies
Could
Never
Like
Korea
Koreans
Coming
South
Trusted
Friendly
Did
Artillery
Vietnam
Vietnamese
The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they have not done destructive hacks.
David E. Sanger
Destructive
About
Russians
Remarkable
Operated
Koreans
Iranians
Than
North
Done
Chinese
Large
Differently
Thing
American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians.
David E. Sanger
Technology
Sometimes
Dig
Corporations
Suppliers
Because
Koreans
Iranians
North
American
Officials
Suspected
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.
Evan Osnos
People
Year
One-Third
Koreans
Sub-Saharan
Were
Than
North
Africa
China
Chinese
Mean
Chinese People
Average
Poorer
Your
Income
Third
I think, Koreans, they're really hard-working people. They're really innovative, and they try new things all the time, so I think it's just a matter of time when everyone will know K-pop.
Jessica Jung
Time
People
Matter
Try
Will
New Things
Think
Everyone
Innovative
New
Know
Koreans
Just
Really
Hard-Working
Things
All the organizations and officials of Chongryon, regarding this unity as the great foundation of the movement of Koreans in Japan, should rally themselves around the central leadership with one mind and purpose, and accomplish its patriotic cause, which was pioneered with comradely unity, by dint of comradeship.
Kim Jong-un
Leadership
Great
Cause
Mind
Unity
Rally
Purpose
Comradeship
Around
Koreans
Accomplish
Officials
Movement
Patriotic
Regarding
Which
Central
Japan
Themselves
Should
Organizations
Foundation
For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
Time
Long
Long Time
Had
Because
Koreans
Been
Goal
Done
Just
Skating
Many
Olympics
In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans - Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I'm at home and very comfortable.
Kim Yuna
Home
Too
Markets
Toronto
Angeles
Feel
Like
Comfortable
Korean
Koreans
Los
Los Angeles
Lot
Very
When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
Kim Yuna
Time
Competition
Win
Long
Long Time
Big
Never
Had
Because
Koreans
Been
Goal
Expected
Done
Just
Skating
Little
Really
Many
Olympics
I would not say that the North Koreans will do anything that the Chinese want them to do.
Lee Hsien Loong
Will
Say
Would
Koreans
North
Want
Anything
Chinese
Them
If defectors say they had high-level connections in Pyongyang or came from an esteemed institution in the North, they can gain better employment in the South, where life can be very difficult for North Koreans.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Life
Better
Difficult
Say
Had
Institution
Employment
Koreans
Came
South
Very
North
Where
Esteemed
Gain
Connections
A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Grass
Tree
Eating
More
Only
Bugs
Korea
Koreans
Ultimately
Huge
Hit
Than
Survived
North
North Korea
Died
Famine
Bark
Many
Million
I've been so lucky, received so much help and inspiration in my life, so I want to help give aspiring North Koreans a chance to prosper with international support.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Life
My Life
Give
Inspiration
Support
Prosper
Koreans
Been
North
Want
Much
Aspiring
Help
International
Lucky
Received
Chance
In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Life
People
World
Bad Things
Country
Thieves
Everyday
Everyday People
Our
Bad
Born
About
Hospitals
Outside
Outside World
Know
Another
Always
Koreans
Existing
Beggars
North
America
Human
Dying
Regime
Us
Full
Moment
Describing
Things
Streets
North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Risks
Obligation
World
Strong
Safety
Face
Despite
Tell
About
Feel
Koreans
Oppressed
Tragically
North
Personal
Nightmare
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Hate
Oppression
Fear
Koreans
Due
North
Cannot
Themselves
Help
I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Become
Believe
Peninsula
See
Both
Countries
Majority
Korea
Korean
Korean Peninsula
Koreans
Want
Again
Whole
It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and almost impossible in China. I was really impressed, and I became addicted to reading the news and watching the media so I could learn about the world. North Koreans would be stunned if they experienced this.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Government
News
Me
World
Impossible
Reading
Addicted
Would
Would-Be
About
Could
Almost
Openly
Stunned
Learn
Read
Became
Korea
Koreans
South
Impressed
South Korea
Very
Shocking
North
North Korea
Experienced
China
Newspapers
Really
Media
Watching
North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Work
Try
Parents
State
Hungry
Jobs
Feel
Countless
Economy
Forced
Bed
Korean
Koreans
Go
Escape
Families
North
Option
North Korean
Children
Many
Watch
I am one of the lucky North Koreans who made it out of China. North Korean defectors in the country are terrified of trying to leave because they are often caught at the borders as they attempt to cross into Mongolia or Laos.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Made
Country
Out
Borders
Cross
Attempt
Terrified
Because
Am
Korean
Caught
Koreans
Leave
North
Trying
North Korean
Often
China
Who
Lucky
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