My Mother Used to Tell Me 어머니께서 제게 말씀하시곤 했어요

"My mother [South Korean] used to tell me about feeding a young lady who was captured in the Chiri Mountains. She probably was going to be tried and put in jail but she was very hungry so my mother fed her.  She felt really sorry for that young lady, one of the guerrilla members in the mountains. She was brought to my house because she was in bad shape, so starved - so my mother cared for her."  - Kyung Hui Lee

"I was captured during the United Nations' offensive in 1950.  We were retreating and all of a sudden the Chinese were upon us.  We were taken north.  There were plenty of opportunities for us to escape. It was in fact very strange. They didn't march us in lines. They would simply tell us the next destination and it was up to us to be there at the right time. It was like climbing some mountain on a camping trip!" - Won Yop Kim

"We had fear of the North Korean soldiers because they were more authoritarian.  They were the ones who invaded.  But you look at them - just like our brother and sister, like uncles.  And their songs, well, we liked their songs too.  And then trying to teach their slogans, "fight, fight, fight," and "freedom", their sense of freedom…"  -  Song J. Park