“Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.”

— Kim Young-sam

As quoted in "Kim Young-sam: Former President of South Korea Dies at 87" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/asia/kim-young-sam-former-president-of-south-korea-dies-at-87.html?_r=0 (November 2015), by Sang-Hun Choe, The New York Times (22 November 2015), New York

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