Barbara Demick Quotes
- North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in…
- There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
- North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the…
- A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends.…
- One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.
- The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and…