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North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. — John Bolton

The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change. — Felix Abt

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea ... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. — Shane Smith

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. — Helen Clark

Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea. — Ban Ki-moon

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ. — Jonathan Gruber

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. — Bill Richardson

All of North Korea is a jail. — Kim Young-sam

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. — Noam Chomsky

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby. — John Oliver

Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. — Yukiya Amano

[ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity! — Kang Chol-Hwan

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. — Kim Young-sam

It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country. — Kim Young-sam

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

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. — Mitchell Reiss

But then some asshat got voted into office who thought it'd be a good idea to let countries like North Korea and Iran develop nuclear arsenals. — M.D. Massey

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. — Bill Gates

I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate. — Marco Rubio

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure. — Brian Reynolds Myers

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it. — Tina Fey

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual. — Nataly Kelly

We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world. — Zach Wamp

South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test. — Elise Hu

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. — Michael Ledeen

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. — Adam Johnson

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. — Christopher Hitchens

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world. — Barbara Demick

In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme. — Barbara Demick

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. — Pankaj Mishra

But now she couldn't deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea. — Barbara Demick

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. — George W. Bush

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. — Kim Young-sam

By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days. — Barbara Demick

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea. — Edward Luck

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant — Guy Delisle

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

North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from. — Lewis Black

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

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons. — Noam Chomsky

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk. — Susan Rice

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. — Christopher Hitchens

In North Korea the only laws that truly matter, and for which extreme penalties are imposed if they are broken, touch on loyalty to the Kim dynasty. — Hyeonseo Lee

The man's father runs the program for 30 years, steps down, and within a day his son's got the job? What is this, North Korea? — R.S. Grey

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. — Ted Lieu

(The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.) — Barbara Demick

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. — Jennifer Armintrout

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

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. — Mitchell Reiss

None. I think we should send a country some cupcakes. You think some cupcakes would cheer up North Korea? Kill 'em with deliciousness. — Gerard Way

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn't matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch. — Barbara Demick

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside. — Kim Dae-jung

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States. — Mike Huckabee

If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out. — Noam Chomsky

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist. — John Sweeney

The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea. — Madeleine Albright

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. — Andrew Young

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. — Richard Armitage

North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. — Barbara Demick

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

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. — Kim Dae-jung

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? — Greg Giraldo

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. — Barbara Demick

We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb, — Mohamed ElBaradei

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose. — Dennis Rodman

We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan. — Shinzo Abe

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran. — Mohamed ElBaradei

We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. — Sergei Lavrov

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet. — Barbara Demick

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States. — Elise Hu

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea. — Rick Yune

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. — Kim Dae-jung

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. — George W. Bush

I'm pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures' decision to pull 'The Interview' under pressure from North Korea. — Mark Kirk

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. — Kang Chol-Hwan

Pets hardly exist in North Korea because most have been eaten. — Mike Kim

In North Korea, you don't own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there. — Barbara Demick