70 quotes
[O]ne cannot respect the orthodox version of history without perpetuating the ideology behind it.
On the United Future Party (2020)
The difference between East Germans and North Koreans is day and night.
Interview with the Reuters War College (2017)
North Korea cannot normalize relations with the United States.
Interview with Chad O'Carroll (2012)
[T]he next few months will decide the fate of the peninsula.
Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (2018)
If South Korea's dictatorships were America's running dogs, then North Korea was the Eastern bloc's house cat: intractable, convinced of its superiority, and to some observers a more independent creature, but never much good at feeding itself—even after the can openers started falling silent in 1989.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
Ultra-nationalism is an appealing ideology; the Third Reich fought to the end, even sending their children into battle... We should not underestimate its appeal.
Interview with Yonhap (2011)
North Korea is a unique socialist country in that its ruling ideology is conveyed through what is written about its leaders, not by them, and the message could hardly be simpler. Foreigners bad, Koreans good, Leader best.
Mother of All Mothers (2004)
Far-right states derive mass support from the perception of their success in dealing with internal or external enemies; economic matters, though certainly important, do not bear directly on state legitimacy as they do in far-left states.
North Korea's State Loyalty Advantage (2011)
Pyongyang watchers consider the regime to be so hungry for economic growth, progress and other goodies as to have no pride, no mission, and no commitment to victory, real victory. It's all eros and no thymos. On this error rests our administration's hope for denuclearization.
Confederation Again (2018)
I want to be here for unification.
Interview with Yonhap (2011)