Top Korea Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Korea quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kim Il-sung
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Frank Schaeffer
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Greg Giraldo
Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?
- Greg Giraldo
Collection: Korea
Image of Richard Glover
Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.
- Richard Glover
Collection: Korea
Image of Mitchell Reiss
There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.
- Mitchell Reiss
Collection: Korea
Image of Brian Reynolds Myers
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Brian Reynolds Myers
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Raila Odinga
At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .
- Raila Odinga
Collection: Korea
Image of Jonathan Gruber
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
- Jonathan Gruber
Collection: Korea
Image of George Blake
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
Collection: Korea
Image of David Krieger
[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).
- David Krieger
Collection: Korea
Image of Carlos Eire
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Charles Krauthammer
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
Collection: Korea
Image of Ted Lieu
North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.
- Ted Lieu
Collection: Korea
Image of Jaak Kilmi
The Soviet Union wasn't so closed - it wasn't North Korea. It was a practical system. People were creative and industrious, so if they wanted to see Western TV programs, they would invent a way to do so. It's strange in a way. There was an official truth, and there was daily life.
- Jaak Kilmi
Collection: Korea
Image of Kim Hyesoon
If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.
- Kim Hyesoon
Collection: Korea
Image of Elise Hu
South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.
- Elise Hu
Collection: Korea
Image of Elise Hu
In South Korea, there's a lot of folks who are already saying this deal doesn't go far enough. And I had one source say that President Park will, quote, "get lots of love from D.C. for this" but that the money itself for the fund - $8 million - isn't that much and that the deal itself doesn't ensure that future generations will learn from history so not to repeat it.
- Elise Hu
Collection: Korea
Image of Marilyn Monroe
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
- Marilyn Monroe
Collection: Korea
Image of Ronald Reagan
The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Korea
Image of Conan O'Brien
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and the blast was so small that many scientists are saying it was a dud. Apparently, the nuclear bomb didn't work well because it was made in Korea.
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Korea
Image of John Bolton
The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.
- John Bolton
Collection: Korea
Image of John Bolton
The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.
- John Bolton
Collection: Korea
Image of Conan O'Brien
North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'
- Conan O'Brien
Collection: Korea
Image of Donald Trump
What happens when I'm dealing with the problems in North Korea and the Middle East? Are you folks going to be reporting all that very, very confidential information, very important, very - you know, at the highest level? Are you going to be reporting about that, too? So I don't want classified information getting out into the public in a way that was almost a test.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Korea
Image of Donald Trump
You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Korea
Image of Jon Stewart
Bush advisers have long been worried that a lagging economy could hamper the president's re-election chances. They hope that the Cabinet shake-up will provide a needed jolt. If that doesn't work, North Korea has to go.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Korea
Image of Noam Chomsky
If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Korea
Image of Margaret Cho
My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism.
- Margaret Cho
Collection: Korea
Image of Noam Chomsky
If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Korea
Image of Noam Chomsky
To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Korea
Image of Hillary Clinton
We do have to worry about North Korea. They continue to develop their nuclear weapons capability, and they're working very hard on their ballistic missile capability.
- Hillary Clinton
Collection: Korea
Image of Michael Caine
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
- Michael Caine
Collection: Korea
Image of Stephen Colbert
North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'
- Stephen Colbert
Collection: Korea
Image of Immanuel Wallerstein
When Time magazine conducted a poll in Europe in March [2003] asking which of three - North Korea, Iraq, or the United States - was the biggest threat to world peace, a whopping 86.9% answered the United States.
- Immanuel Wallerstein
Collection: Korea
Image of Park Chan-wook
Ever since I arrived in America to promote Stoker, I haven't had time to go and see it in a theater. The fact that I had to shoot twice as fast as I'm used to in Korea was the most challenging thing about my Hollywood experience.
- Park Chan-wook
Collection: Korea
Image of Seungri
I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people!
- Seungri
Collection: Korea
Image of Tina Fey
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got.
- Tina Fey
Collection: Korea
Image of Tina Fey
North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.
- Tina Fey
Collection: Korea
Image of Mohamed ElBaradei
We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.
- Mohamed ElBaradei
Collection: Korea
Image of Jill Stein
And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing that was quoted in the Newsweek report - that his [Donald Trump] pushing policies of nuclear arms for South Korea would actually improve his business network.
- Jill Stein
Collection: Korea
Image of Werner Herzog
I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't even try. I was realistic of what I could do and yet persuaded them into accepting numerous things that I shouldn't have filmed.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Korea
Image of Werner Herzog
North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Korea
Image of Werner Herzog
Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Korea
Image of Christopher Hitchens
I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: Korea
Image of Christopher Hitchens
North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: Korea
Image of Werner Herzog
The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Korea
Image of Jay Leno
They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.
- Jay Leno
Collection: Korea
Image of Bill Maher
North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Korea
Image of Bill Maher
The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Korea