Quotes with korea

  • North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
  • 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.
  • The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
  • By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bae Doona Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
    Bae Doona
    South Korean actress and photographer (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick 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.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Barbara Demick The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Ari Fleischer The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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