“We considered the Dear Leader our god. That's huge. He's more than our...” — Lee Hyeon-seo Quote

“We considered the Dear Leader our god. That's huge. He's more than our parents. I thought all of the world respected Kim Il Sung. That's why we were bowing to their pictures.”

“We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the middle of the night - not every day, but sometimes. We hear about it, and we never knew what happened inside the prison camps. I learned about them after I escaped.”

“I think it's possible that China is ready for a serious change regarding its North Korean defector policy. Chinese people are starting to realize that so many defectors have been suffering in China, and it doesn't have to be this way.”

“You can run into people, and they can be someone you thought you were never going to hear from again or never gonna talk to again, and they end up becoming dear friends.”

“I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.”

“If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.”