Quotes by : Barbara Demick

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

Her younger son, twenty, was assigned to a factory that made railroad equipment, but since it provided....

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in....

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped....

A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, "People are not stupid. Everybody thinks....

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and....

Up until that moment, a part of her had hoped that China would be just as poor as North Korea. She still....

Tech-savvy types had figured out how to get around the system. With radios it was easy—open up the....

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to....

Dr. Kim couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a bowl of pure white rice. What was a bowl of rice....