[To survive has required tenacity. Koreans are reported even to have murdered children and mixed their flesh with pork to eat. When I have encountered North Korean refugees in Asia, they look barely human - stunted figures with sallow, terrified faces. Some North Koreans have tried to grow their own food, potentially a sign of independent thinking. But for years Kim had them stopped, though he has begun to open the economy slightly in the past three years. Those who protested were sent to an extensive gulag system, which may have resulted in the deaths of one million people. In this internal slave state, Becker suggests, tests of chemical weapons are carried out on prisoners, and pregnant women whose children were tainted with foreign blood have been forced to have abortions. Kim Jong Il has] resisted adopting every policy that could have brought the misery to a quick end, ... the suffering he inflicted on an entire people an unparalleled and monstrous crime.
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Related I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Everyone has a gift. It's up to you to decide what you do with it. ANTHONY T. HINCKS [He said he had] extensive discussions ... strong views, and I have conveyed them to the North Korea... COLIN POWELL Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no... JAMES C. DOBSON Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the pr... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un... ED ROYCE Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco... AKIROQ BROST I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Approach people with an open mind so you can learn from them SOTONYE ANGA Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there b... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but... JOHN BOLTON In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ... SARAH DESSEN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That’s not fair! Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo... JOHN M SHEEHAN There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die b... JOHN AGYEKUM KUFUOR Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A lot of what goes on over there is shrouded in such secrecy. The North Koreans have made it very, v... JAY LEFKOWITZ How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have ... VALERIE PLAME People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as ... BRIAN REYNOLDS MYERS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO [China has been pushing the North Koreans] to be essentially team players, ... They really have had ... CHRISTOPHER HILL I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE We stand at an historic moment in the struggle to end the anguish that these weapons have already in... CAROL BELLAMY I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive! MAELLE GAVET The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances... CRAIG GROESCHEL Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON The North Koreans are behaving just like you'd predict. For every I that has to be dotted and T that... GARY SCHMITT To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections... GEORGE ELIOT Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their man... GYULA ILLYéS There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their int... MARK TWAIN Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deservin... C.S. LEWIS The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We will also be urging China to help us get the North Koreans to return to the six-party talks ... s... DENNIS WILDER The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to th... MARK LATTIMER Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN The bacteria has also been found in pregnant women and women who have had medical abortions. There a... JENNIFER MORCONE Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a f... BARBARA DEMICK Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in... PRIYAVRAT THAREJA I know that the Germans are very unhappy about these withdrawals. The Koreans are going to be equall... RICHARD HOLBROOKE The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, ... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The North Koreans have been known to go around with glossy brochures about their ballistic missiles.... CONDOLEEZZA RICE Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi... MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred mil... MARK TWAIN In the past, the governments that have taken power have found an economic situation that is so serio... TREVOR ALLEYNE As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern. He... WELTY EUDORA A lot of the artists have developed relationships with family members of men and women they portraye... ANNETTE POLAN Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people ... JOHN LASSETER The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or ... ADAM JOHNSON Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL The North Koreans have every intention to lie, steal and cheat as much as they can get away with and... GRAHAM ALLISON The tenacity and desire to win which he has worked with since he was a child have carried him to the... FERNANDO ALONSO Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual a... BEATRIX CAMPBELL We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and ... are so attached to the st... BUZ PLYLER We have been very blessed with the people who have vacationed here and . . . are so attached to the ... BUZ PLYLER A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't peop... JERRY LEWIS I do have some mixed reactions to this study partly because they are advocating for people to contin... MAUREEN MILLER Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. Even the ... ABHIJIT NASKAR In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syr... ELLIOTT ABRAMS The LTTE has tons of money and in the past three years they have regrouped and rearmed with latest w... HARRY GOONETILLEKE There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to... KIM DAE JUNG Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS
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JASPER FFORDE I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt... JASPER FFORDE Defiance through compliance. JASPER FFORDE The youthful stationmaster wore a Blue Spot on his uniform and remonstrated with the driver that the... JASPER FFORDE Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath. JASPER FFORDE If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hu... JASPER FFORDE You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blight... JASPER FFORDE Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. JASPER FFORDE You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposit... JASPER FFORDE the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe JASPER FFORDE The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the... JASPER FFORDE The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary require... JASPER FFORDE I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallio... JASPER FFORDE Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lea... JASPER FFORDE I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the Pr... JASPER FFORDE I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that ... JASPER JOHNS Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's ... JASPER FFORDE Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. JASPER FFORDE If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream , I must be dafter t... JASPER FFORDE They turned their attention to the wardrobe that held several Armani suits, all of them individually... JASPER FFORDE Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble champion. When he died, we buried him ... JASPER FFORDE Businessman, philanthropist, large egg. JASPER FFORDE So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, ... JASPER FFORDE She opened the door within two seconds of his pressing the doorbell, letting out a stream of cats th... JASPER FFORDE This must have been how it all began with Chymes,” sighed Jack. “A small omission on one ca... JASPER FFORDE ALBINOS DEMAND ACTION ON MOVIE SLUR The albino community demanded action yesterday to stop their unf... JASPER FFORDE If you drive at precisely twenty-nine miles per hour, the rumble strips play ‘Jerusalem’ on the ... JASPER FFORDE Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no w... JASPER FFORDE I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg. JASPER FFORDE You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and ... JASPER FFORDE Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way. JASPER FFORDE How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towar... JASPER FFORDE Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Imp... JASPER FFORDE Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. JASPER FFORDE The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Ru... JASPER FFORDE So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now? JASPER FFORDE The music map, the Vera Project all of these are steps in the right direction in making the state... MEGAN JASPER There was so much happening, but there was no support for it in the city no feeling of pride or a... MEGAN JASPER