Interview with Kang Chul-hwan, co-director of The Committee for the Democratization of North Korea and author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang
(Wonhee Lee, November 2, 2007)
We must support a candidate who is supportive of improving the lives of North Korean citizens, of reform and openness, a candidate who is supportive of us, North Korean defectors in South Korea, and allows us to speak our minds, even if that might embarrass the North Korean authorities…We did not come to the South simply because we were hungry, just merely to survive…
- Kang Chul-hwan, North Korean defector