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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.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
- Government
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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.
- Emotion
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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.
- Dead
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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.
- Dubious
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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.
- Family
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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.
- Man
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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.
- Live
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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.
- Daily
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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.
- Economy
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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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
- Chinese Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.
- Korea
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
- Energy Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
- Emanate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
- Dystopian
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- Nov 07, 2020