Barbara Demick Quotes:- Barbara Demick (Born: 1959) is an American journalist. She was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her second book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in December 2009 and Granta Books in 2010. An animated feature film based on the book and sharing the same title was planned to be directed by Andy Glynne.
Inspirational Barbara Demick Quotes
“North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom – beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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“The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.”
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“The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians were in early Hollywood.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.”
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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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“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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“The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.”
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“Kim Jong-un’s style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.”
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“Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.”
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Famous Barbara Demick Quotes
“As a reader, I’ve always been interested in dystopian novels like ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 program.”
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“I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“A South Korean teenager, the 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4’6″. The height requirement is supposed to be 4’9″. That’s the size of my 12-year-old son.”
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“People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.” The Second Project
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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.”
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