Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

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

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It's really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.

Let's be clear: There is no doubt that the citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea both fear and loathe the United States. Paranoia, resentment, and a crude anti-Americanism have been nurtured inside the Hermit Kingdom for decades.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.

North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about the Orwellian nightmare that North Koreans face.

To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.

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

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.