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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

Topics: Asleep Casualty Classic Command Committed Country Defense Falling Kim Korea Latest Leader Man Meeting Men Military Minister No Country North North Korea Offense Old Old Men Ongoing Purge Senior Supreme Who

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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

Topics: Anywhere Anywhere Else Beneath Complexity Doing Else Emotion Faces Fixed Goes Gymnastics Human Koreans Life Life Goes On Mass North Parades Real Real Life Same See Smiles

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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Accommodate Around Beads Born Buddhist Castle Coral Dressed Edge Enough Fat Father Her Large Lived Monks Neck Once Paid Plateau Princess Reception Room Ropes She Thousand Tibetan Tribute Who Woman Young Young Woman

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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Back Earnest Endeavor Interview Korean Like Mirror North North Korean Reflected Seeing Through

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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: End Feels Flames Gratuitous Head Interview Kim Me Most Objections Raised Scene Very

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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Country Deliberately Internet Kept Korea North North Korea Only Only Country Out World

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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

Topics: Best Broadcast Country Crime Difficult Else Everybody Everybody Else Foreign Government Koreans Listen Live Lives Locked May Much North Result Serious Think World Worse

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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

Topics: Amendment China Dead Exceptions Hard Made Many Moment Over Pinpoint Policy Pronounce Were Years

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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: According Affairs Being China Department Distinction Division Dubious Economic Expected India Most Nation Nations Population Social United United Nations World

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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

Topics: After Born China Communist Communist Party Discourage Less Measures Party Policy Promised Severe Temporary Would Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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