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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

Topics: Birth Boy Chased Child Died Family Fields Girl Had Her How Me Mother Officials Prevent Procedure Province Second She Ten Through

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Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: His Hussein Kim More Saddam Saddam Hussein Son Style

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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

Topics: Agree Edge Live Mostly Ordinary Ordinary People People Punish Sanctions Starvation Who

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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Beyond Courtroom Doubt Good Reasonable Reporting Same Should Standard

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When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Afford Border China Chinese Cross Daily Eat Koreans Learn Meals North Rice Sometimes Stunned Three

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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Better Better Off Country Ignorant Keeping Kept Korea Lie Living Normal North North Korea Off Outside Outside World People Power Regime Standards Supports Underlying Ways World

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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

Topics: Area Curiously Darkness Democratic East Far Korea Lacking Large Light Look Night People Photographs Republic Satellite See You

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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

Topics: Ally Black Cheap Collapse Collapsed Communist Early Early 1990S Economy Faded Fuel Had Inefficient Korea North North Korea Oil Old Power Ruin Soviet Soviet Union Stations Union Up Which 1990S

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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Korea Life North North Korea Slower

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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Better Broken Country Days Everything Had Korea Nearly North North Korea Out Seen Worn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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