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title: "3 Closed Country Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-n-haass/there-is-no-way-to-know-for-certain-what-accounts-for-north-korean/)

[Richard N. Haass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-n-haass/)

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> [Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cai-guo-qiang/even-though-china-was-a-very-closed-country-they-thought-of/)

[Cai Guo-Qiang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cai-guo-qiang/)

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> [After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-dennis/after-university-i-travelled-through-china-for-about-two-or-three/)

[Hugh Dennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-dennis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a7/hugh-dennis-12852_china_after-university-i-travelled-through-chi_2281345.jpg)

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