" (P166) That’s the way things usually work in North Korea: money and violence stand in for law and order. We even have a saying for it: “The law is far; the fist is close.” The regime that never tires of denouncing capitalism has birthed a society where money is king— more so than any capitalist society I have visited. "

― Kang Chol-Hwan , The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag