North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it...... Quote by "Barbara Demick"

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

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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

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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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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

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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

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