Top South Korea Quotes
The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a...
Christopher Hitchens
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politics, war, united states, totalitarianism, china, nuclear weapons, kim il sung, kim jong il, north korea, 2000
Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years...
Christopher Hitchens
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siberia, japan, china, kim il sung, north korea, world war ii, korea, korean war, 1953, south korea
Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...
Christopher Hitchens
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death, grief, irony, jokes, dissent, indoctrination, graffiti, university, totalitarianism, kim il sung