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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
We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Political
Become
Between
Always
Korea
South
South Korea
North
North Korea
Refugees
China
I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world or China was the best. I grew up believing that China was much worse than North Kore, because that's what the regime told us.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Best
Eyes
World
Country
Own
Worse
See
My Own
Because
Korea
Up
Than
North
North Korea
Just
Wanted
Grew
Whether
Regime
China
Us
Much
Believing
My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even say 'North Korea.'
Lee Hyeon-seo
Mom
Me
Living
Say
Be Careful
Inside
How
Korea
Times
North
North Korea
Regime
Many
Even
Need
Careful
I believe I'll see the reunification of North and South Korea in my lifetime and that defectors should play a role in rebuilding the country. In the long run, I want to return to North Korea, because that's where I belong.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Long
Country
Believe
Run
See
Lifetime
Long Run
Return
Reunification
Because
Korea
South
South Korea
North
Role
North Korea
Where
Want
Should
Rebuilding
Play
Belong
In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Enemy
All Americans
Learnt
Korea
North
American
North Korea
Human
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
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.
Lee Hyeon-seo
People
Money
School
Hospital
Study
Countries
How
Korea
Were
Western
Western Countries
North
Die
North Korea
Heaven
Taught
Us
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.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Me
Memories
World
Old
Country
Important
Brother
Know
Most
Korea
Families
North
North Korea
Ridiculous
Mum
I can't be sure of exactly when and how North Korea will change. But I do believe it will happen, hopefully in my mother's lifetime.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Change
Mother
Will
Believe
Hopefully
Exactly
Lifetime
Sure
How
Korea
North
North Korea
Happen
North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It's really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Government
People
Speak
Nervous
Difficult
Our
Out
Inside
About
Ongoing
Faces
Something
Obligated
Never
Feel
Know
Always
Korea
Korean
Tragedy
North
North Korea
North Korean
Inform
Regime
Against
Us
Really
Planning
Show
Who
When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.
Lee Hyeon-seo
People
Revolution
Embraced
About
Korea
Cultural
Escaped
North
North Korea
Forgotten
China
Chinese
Them
Many
China is a heaven compared to North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Korea
North
North Korea
Heaven
China
Compared
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
Family
Power
Important
Ambition
Consolidate
Kim
Stay
Most
Within
Korea
Continuing
North
North Korea
The Most Important
Reasons
Nuclear
We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.
Lois Frankel
Work
Complicated
Drop
Think
Everything
OK
Puzzle
Like
Korea
Off
North
North Korea
Going
Just
Pop
Bomb
We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.
Lois Frankel
Try
Pressure
Possible
Must
Put
Korea
North
North Korea
China
Much
Engage
North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
Lu Guanqiu
Will
Become
Our
Liberated
More
Through
Open
Contact
Like
Korea
Years
Years Ago
North
North Korea
China
Certain
I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea.
Mark Kirk
Decision
Pressure
Interview
Pretty
Disappointed
Sony
Pictures
Korea
North
North Korea
Pull
North Korea is not even close to being a near peer to South Korea or, much less, the United States.
Martha McSally
Peer
States
Korea
South
South Korea
Close
North
North Korea
Being
Much
Less
Even
United
Near
United States
If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.
Maxine Waters
Will
Solve
Korea
North
North Korea
Going
China
Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.
Michael Hayden
Russia
Highest
Counterintelligence
Counterterrorism
Countries
Korea
Iran
North
North Korea
China
Interest
Four
If Texas and Kansas were countries they wouldn't be admitted to the World Trade Organization. Their policies are congruent with North Korea, Somalia, Turkestan, several other countries I can't pronounce and Micronesia.
Mike Leach
World
Organization
Other
Other Countries
Several
Somalia
Pronounce
Admitted
Countries
Policies
Trade
Trade Organization
Korea
Were
Texas
North
North Korea
Kansas
World Trade
World Trade Organization
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
Future
People
Decision
Think
Type
Located
Faces
Does
Korea
North
North Korea
Same
Different
Want
Place
Certainly
Different Place
Strategic
Now
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
Other
Other Countries
States
Weapons
Ongoing
Had
Share
Countries
Concern
Korea
North
Did
North Korea
Same
United
United States
Nuclear
Actually
Early
Nuclear Weapons
Program
The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.
Mitt Romney
World
Enough
Threat
Faces
Troubling
Greatest
Korea
Iran
Greatest Threat
North
North Korea
Nuclear
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Political
Become
Brazil
Community
State
Weapons
Winds
Rather
Remaining
Develop
Powerhouse
Another
Korea
Were
Shift
Goal
Iran
North
North Korea
While
Japan
Capacity
International
International Community
Nuclear
Technological
Nuclear Weapons
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