The new year 2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.

Beauty is a female thing. That's why nature is so stunning.

When we connect to Creator, our sacred character develops.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don't deserve to win.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.