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“I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.”

Thinking Deals Issues South Currents Regimes Korea North Korea Korean North Korean South Korea Defectors

Author:Kim Young-sam

“I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.”

World Feels Two Whole Attention Police South Sorry Caught Chinese Entering North Korea Korean Beijing North Korean Embassy Defectors

Author:Kim Young-sam

“The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.”

World Moving Race Performances Objectives Advertising Ease Indifferent Assured Revolt Yuppies Defectors

Book:America

Source: America

“For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!”

People Should Firsts Three Realizing Beats Albums Get Back Tribes Defectors

Author:Q-Tip

“I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper correspondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Young Night Mets Picks Dinner Newspapers Hotel Staying Italian Squares One Night Moscow Harvey Pick Me Pick Me Up Kremlin Defectors

Author:Truman Capote

“Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.”

Ifs Looks Children Law Mother Guy Progress Hair Becoming Tennis Swim Bats Rude In-laws Marble Billionaire Professionalism Moody Mother In Law Defectors

Author:Dan Jenkins

“North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.”

“Divorce can leave children feeling like defectors.”

Children Feelings Divorce Defectors

Author:Diane Greene

“I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.”

People Knows Men Want Country Names Secret Men And Women Individuality Labels Call Me Bisexual Ambidextrous Defectors

Book:MARTINA

Source: MARTINA

“I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.”

People Firsts Said Hate I Hate Phrases Defective Bad Word Defectors

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.”

Causes Difficulty Disinterested Disbelievers Defectors

Author:Neal A. Maxwell