Quotes by Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice doing there, just — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian count — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy—open up the set, cut the conveyor — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Her younger son, twenty, was assigned to a factory that made railroad equipment, but since it provided no salary he was — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world. — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still wanted to belie — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it of — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, "People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own governm — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody — Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea