- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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.
- Morning
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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.
- Down
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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.
- Crossed
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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