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From Ric Flair’s book, To Be the Man, about his trip to North Korea in 1995 for a huge NJPW/WCW event, which was organized by Antonio Inoki and included Muhammad Ali:

“Personally, I didn’t need North Korea on my résumé to say I had a good life. Nor was there any monetary incentive. I went because it was an opportunity to associate myself with someone like Muhammad Ali as an international sports dignitary, and represent professional wrestling to a huge population who had never seen it.”

… “Because of the ravages of Parkinson’s disease, it was difficult to understand Muhammad Ali when he spoke. But at one function, we were sitting at a big, round table with a group of North Korean luminaries when one of the guys started rambling on about the moral superiority of North Korea, and how they could take out the United States or Japan any time they wanted. Suddenly, Ali piped up, clear as a bell, ‘No wonder we hate these motherfuckers.’”