“Our Party maintains the improvement of the people's living conditions ...” — Kim Jong-un Quote

“Our Party maintains the improvement of the people's living conditions as the most important of the numerous state affairs.”

“Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out in the face of harsh challenges of nature; it is a gigantic nature transformation project to turn all the mountains of the country into 'treasure mountains,' into 'gold mountains.'”

“The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.”

“I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.”

“This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.”

“I was a waitress at a really rundown Italian restaurant in Dublin, for about a week, at 16. I thought it was going to be romantic - overhearing affairs and watching first-time couples all loved up. But instead I was just running about constantly.”