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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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- Nov 07, 2020