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

We continue to await a response from North Korea to our long-standing proposal to meet with them on broader issues of concern.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

All of North Korea is a jail.

Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired loudspeaker. There’s one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of sky outlined by the rim, and taken it for the whole of the world. I had passed through to the other side of the mirror. (162)