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punishment was withholding food. Starvation was the way the regime preferred to eliminate its opponents. It — Barbara Demick

He was polite, respectful, not daring even to hold Mi-ran's hand until they'd been dating for three years. — Barbara Demick

Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt. — Barbara Demick

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation. — Barbara Demick

People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama. — Barbara Demick

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world. — Barbara Demick

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. — Barbara Demick

The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. — Barbara Demick

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

Liberty and love These two I must have. For my love I'll sacrifice My life. For liberty I'll sacrifice My love. — Barbara Demick

The strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely. — Barbara Demick

Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive. — Barbara Demick

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. — Barbara Demick

As her students were dying, she was supposed to teach them that they were blessed to be North Korean. — Barbara Demick

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

Often children came in with minor colds or coughs or diarrhea and then suddenly, they were dead. — Barbara Demick

By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days. — Barbara Demick

But now she couldn't deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North Korea. — Barbara Demick

We joked that unrequited, or in this case unconsummated, love affairs are the only ones that last forever. — Barbara Demick

The more there was to complain about, the more important it was to ensure that nobody did. — Barbara Demick

(The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.) — Barbara Demick

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

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn't matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch. — Barbara Demick

At first, they would walk in silence, then their voices — Barbara Demick

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. — Barbara Demick

The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood. — Barbara Demick

Anybody with a functioning brain cannot not know that something is wrong. — Barbara Demick

Charity begins with a full stomach," the North Koreans like to say; you can't feed somebody else's kids if your own are starving. When — Barbara Demick

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

In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism. — Barbara Demick

In North Korea, you don't own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there. — Barbara Demick

Emotions somehow meant more when they were handwritten on precious scraps of paper and conveyed on slow trains running out of fuel. — Barbara Demick

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet. — Barbara Demick

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic. — Barbara Demick

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

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

For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror. — Barbara Demick