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. Noam Chomsky
The goal is to get North Korea to freeze its weapon systems – weapons and missile systems – so one proposal is to accept their offer to do that … The US instantly rejected it. Noam Chomsky, with Amy Goodman discussing Inequality April 2017, Harvard Book Store, Youtube 1.21.00
Our Beloved Leader is wise.
He is gentle, kind and strong ...
May they drown in their own blood and feces!
Die, America, die! The Interview 2014 starring James Franco & Seth Rogen & Lizzy Caplan & Randall Park & Diana Bang & Timothy Simons & Reese Alexander & Anders Holm & James Yi & Paul Bae et al, directors Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, opening scene, girl sings on concrete stage
The CIA would love it if you two could take him out. ibid. CIA chick
They need you two to go in and remove Kim emboldening them to revolt and take over. ibid.
He does not have a butt-hole. He has no need of one. ibid. Korean chick
Kim: It [tank] was a gift to my grandfather from Stalin.
Dave: In my country it’s pronounced Stal-lone. ibid.
Kim must die – that’s the American way. ibid. Dave
Stalin himself might have blushed at the cult fashioned by the Kim dynasty, whose self-regard grows in inverse proportion to the misery it has spread among the people. Millions face a daily battle against starvation as their leaders gorge themselves on a surfeit of imported luxury foods. To fund their lascivious lifestyle, Kim Jong-Il and his acolytes have turned North Korea into a major hub of the shadow and criminal economies in Asia. Misha Glenny, McMafia
The outsourcing of production to North Korea is not restricted to fake cigarettes. North Korea produces goods even more cheaply than China, and some of the wares that we find in Western stores marked Made in China are in fact Made in North Korea. ibid.
The following broadcast will be shocking and cause distress for all citizens of the DPKR but Our Dear Leader sees no other alternative than to illuminate the hidden perils of the Western Imperialists and their pernicious threat to our glorious nation. Propaganda, opening caption, Youtube 2012
This is a film about psychological warfare, a specific warfare designed to distract, misinform and anaesthetize the brain. It has many disguises … Public Relations and Propaganda are interchangeable … Anything that keeps the masses from organising themselves and asking important questions about their masters are really up to. ibid.
And the result? Not one single undemocratic country has been turned into a genuinely democratic country. ibid.
Using the poorest people’s children to do the fighting. It’s important to note that these cowards were happy to order mass death and destruction despite never having been in battle themselves. Is this democracy? ibid.
The biggest reason was I didn’t know when I was going to die of starvation. What North Korean Defectors Think of Korea, female defector #1, Youtube 2017
A major famine that claimed as many as three million lives. ibid.
So you have to pay the nearby soldiers in advance and tell them to not shoot you between such and such time. ibid. female defector #2
If one person got caught, the whole family would die. They kill four generations. ibid.
The rationing system totally collapsed. ibid. male defector #1
What they crave the most is information about the outside world. ibid.
You can’t watch porn either. ibid. female defector #2
This is me in North Korea. I’m in my hotel room reading a book about how to make revolutionary films written by the dear leader General Kim Jong-Il … Comedy is the soft spot of all dictatorships. The Red Chapel, 2010
They are kept in a constant state of fear. A fear of war and a fear of the iron gauntlet of the Dear Leader. All travel to and from Pyongang is restricted, and foreigners cannot move around freely. ibid.
Judging from this, the rehearsal was a total disaster. ibid.
Why did they not cancel everything at once? What kind of country would allow a show as bad and bizarre as ours? ibid.
But to tell you the truth I was not sure about anything. I only had my working theory that somehow by using Jacob as the X-factor I could achieve what no-one had done before – expose the very core of the evil of North Korea. ibid.
It’s the most heartless and brutal totalitarian state ever created. ibid.
Are personally responsible for starving between one and two million North Koreans to death during the big famine of the 90s. ibid.
The North Koreans replaced it with a show which was even more bizarre and grotesque. ibid.
North Korea is a sanctuary for crazy people. ibid.
I believe they [children] are clapping because they are scared. ibid.
It was an offer we could not refuse. ibid.
Unspeakable horrors take place in these camps. ibid.
Nights in North Korea are the worst. ibid.
‘Simon is fucking sick.’ ibid. Jacob
In North Korea one American experienced the Cold War like no other. An outsider isolated in the most inaccessible anti-American country in the world. North Korea: Crossing the Line, BBC 2006
In 1962 a US soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea undertook an extraordinary journey. At the height of the Cold War he deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on Earth and defected to an alien communist state: North Korea. The existence of an American defector living in the heart of the Cold War enemy was denied for decades by the US and North Korean governments. A coveted star of the propaganda machine this man has ingratiated himself. ibid.
‘I never regretted it … I feel at home.’ ibid.
The Korean War … had never ended. The Armistice had established a demilitarised zone, a DMZ 2.5 mile-deep buffer filled with land mines. ibid.
Private Abshier’s defection in May 1962 was the first by an American since the Korean war … Three GIs had now defected to the communists in 18 months: Abshier, Dresnok, Parrish … In January 1965 Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins … took his M14 rifle to North Korea. ibid.
In 1953 after a brutal war Korea lay divided between the Capitalist South backed by the Western powers and the Communist North under Kim Il-Sung allied to the Soviet Union and China. The two sides were left facing each other across the most heavily armed border in the world. Locked in a tense military stand-off, they began to compete by other means. North Korean Kidnap: The Lovers and the Despot, Storyville, BBC 2017
I was kidnapped sometime in July … July 19 … My memory is very hazy. ibid. Choi
Washington DC 15th May 1986: ‘We made great movies together … and received VIP treatment.’ ibid. actress of director lover, Choi & Shin
Thanks for coming … I am Kim Jong-Il. ibid.
It was a political kidnap, says ex-husband. ibid. newspaper article
He had a projection room in every house so he could watch movies any time. ibid. Choi
For about six months … I was at a detention centre. I thought I was going to be killed. ibid. Shin’s kidnap
I escaped … I ran away … I got caught. ibid. Shin
All I could say was, What happened to you? ibid. Choi to Shin
104,018. We longed to escape to the free world. So we decided to do it together. ibid. Choi
All art is subject to political manipulation except that which speaks the language of the same manipulation. Storyville: When Rock Arrived in North Korea: Liberation Day, Laibach, BBC 2017
The first time that a foreign rock band has played in the secretive and restrictive country. ibid. Washington Post
A Slovenian art-rock group called Laibach. ibid.
Meeting with North Korean arms dealers in Africa, or going to the North Korean embassy in Sweden to pick up secret documents, but this is no fiction … and has been going on for more than ten years. Storyville: The Mole I, BBC 2020
To infiltrate and expose the most brutal dictatorship of all: North Korea. ibid.
I quietly start my own KFA [Korean Friendship Association] Denmark. ibid.
We have companies in China, Southeast Asia, Malaysia and other countries for making all kinds of transactions. ibid. Alejandro Cao de Benos, International KFA president
Was the KFA really being used as a front for dealing with weapons and drugs from North Korea with Alejandro as the spy in the web? ibid.
‘At this point you’re in a secret underground lair in North Korea facilitating the signature of a weapons’ contract?’ ibid. Annie Machin, debriefing