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Barbara Demick
American Journalist
China Chinese Country Dalai People World
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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else. Barbara Demick
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North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years. Barbara Demick
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father. Barbara Demick
Great Game Disappointment Father Face Think UN Kim He Fresh Came His Same Playing
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. Barbara Demick
You Phone Post Few Telephone Phone Call Post Office Had Make Call Koreans Go North Office Used Ever
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror. Barbara Demick
Mirror Endeavor Earnest Interview Back Seeing Through Like Korean Reflected North North Korean
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse. Barbara Demick
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead. Barbara Demick
Made Pronounce Exceptions Over Dead Policy Were Years Pinpoint Amendment China Hard Moment Many
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary. Barbara Demick
Party Severe Promised Would Would-Be Born Temporary Policy Discourage Years After China Communist Communist Party Less Measures
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure. Barbara Demick
Family Me Mother Girl Birth Ten Prevent Chased Through Had She Boy How Province Five-Year-Old Child Officials Died Procedure Fields Her Second
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting. Barbara Demick
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I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation. Barbara Demick
People Edge Live Starvation Punish Mostly Ordinary Ordinary People Sanctions Who Agree
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Barbara Demick
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. Barbara Demick
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Barbara Demick
Life Slower Korea North North Korea
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days. Barbara Demick
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color. Barbara Demick
Beautiful Drained Color Could Said Korean North America North Korean Northwest Substantially Pacific Places Landscape Resemble
Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama. Barbara Demick
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. Barbara Demick
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme. Barbara Demick
Needs Energy Gave States Weapons Korea Up Offered North North Korea Energy Needs Help United United States Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Programme
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun. Barbara Demick
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese. Barbara Demick
People Related More Than Closely Chinese

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