The Great Successor Quotes

“There’s a good reason for terrifying the people at the top. Contrary to popular perception, most dictators are not overthrown by an angry populace marching in the streets. The vast majority are removed by insiders from the regime. The biggest risk to dictators is not the struggle between the privileged and the masses but a struggle among the elites.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“In every respect, he proved that he was no madman but a calculating leader with a strategy that was proceeding according to plan.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“Kim Jong Un was very friendly in person, said Choi Jin-hee, a South Korean singer in her sixties, who met him after the concert. “Of course I know that he killed his uncle and did all those terrible things, but he was very eloquent and gave a good impression,”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“In phase two, Kim Jong Un would seek to shore up his rule by improving relations with the outside world.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“North Korean officials began asking former American officials to decipher Trump’s tweets for them. They read The Art of the Deal. They read Fire and Fury, an explosive book about the chaos inside the White House.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“the leaders of the two countries had only seven years of political experience between them. Six of them were on Kim Jong Un’s side.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“all the evidence suggested that Kim Jong Un was a “reasonably psychologically stable individual,”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“While starvation is no longer a threat in North Korea, malnutrition is. People there often struggle to get enough variety in their diet.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“you speak up, you don’t know what kind of punishment you might face. So instead of trying to do something to change the system, it’s better just to leave.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“It is this system that, even now, can lead to three generations of an entire family being imprisoned, sometimes for life, for one person’s wrongdoing.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“Huge concentration camps in remote regions, often with bitter climates, housed anyone who dared to dissent—”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“At the time he left North Korea, Mr. Kang estimated that about 80 percent of the adults in Hoeryong were using ice, consuming almost two pounds of the highly potent drug every single day.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“another thing that was, until relatively recently, banned in North Korea: the cell phone.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“Those who don’t “do their homework” are liable, in the code language of the checkpoints, to have to “stay and finish their homework” or have their cargo confiscated.7 Everyone has an incentive to make this system work.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“The boy had been learning the Chinese characters that are the basis of both Japanese and Korean, and he wanted to see if they stayed the same in both languages.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“North Korea has now existed for longer than the Soviet Union.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“there was still not a fat person in sight. Not even a remotely chubby one. Apart from the One. But it was clear that Pyongyang, home to the elite who kept Kim Jong Un in power, was not a city on the ropes.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“It was fun being a rich kid in Kim Jong Un's North Korea, the richest kid of all was making sure of it.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“Most people who don’t get scared off by their conscience or the stress of being a leader develop narcissism,” Robertson told me. Because it’s an acquired narcissism, it’s a personality distortion rather than a personality disorder.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

“Our Respected Mother Who Is Loyal to Our Beloved Supreme Commander Is the Most Loyal among Loyalists.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

“Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in Bern. "I would destroy all terrorists with the Hollywood star Jean-Claude van Damme.”
― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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― Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un