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In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Army Central China Communists Established Following His Invaded Liberation Mao People Republic Tibet Year

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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

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Topics: Country Developed Fallen Korea North North Korea Out World

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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

Topics: Energy Gave Help Korea Needs North North Korea Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Offered Programme States United United States Up Weapons 1990S

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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

Topics: Case Colour Colours Depicted Face Found George George Orwell He His Images Kim Korea North North Korea Only Orange Posters Propaganda Rays Sun Vivid Where World Wrote Yellow

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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

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Topics: Call Ever Few Go Had Koreans Make North Office Phone Phone Call Post Post Office Telephone Used You

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As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Always Been Interested Like Nineteen Novels Reader

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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Afghanistan China Chinese Communist Communist Party Devoted East Group Islamic Largely Movement Name Named Old Out Pakistan Party

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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Chinese Closely More People Related Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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