Kim Jong Il

“Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.”

“The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.”

“אנחנו מדינה חזקה מבחינה צבאית, פוליטית ואידאולוגית, אבל עדיין ישנם דברים שחסרים לאנשים.”

“לכבד את ראשוני המהפכנים היא חובה מוסרית אצילה של מהפכנים.”

“רק כשאדם הופך לחלק מקהילה הוא יכול לזכות בחיי נצח פוליטיים־חברתיים.”

“אין מילה ל'בלתי אפשרי' בשפה הקוריאנית.”

“לאימפריאליסטים אין זכות לדבר על זכויות אדם.”

“עצמאות היא דבר שניתן לאדם על ידי החברה.”

“The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.”

“A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.”

“Great ideology creates great times.”

“The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.”

“National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.”

“No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.”

“We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.”

“No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.”

“Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.”

“A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.”