Barbara Demick Quotes

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

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 carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

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

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.