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brighter moments such hardships can create. For example, the author highlights one interviewee's fond memories of courtship, in some ways only made possible by the power-outs and lack of electricity so common in the nation. Demick also had experience working as a journalist, often reporting on North Korea specifically, and the book features follow-up pieces based on the people's stories.
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the day Kim Il Sung died (p. 91), and how compulsive and competitive massive weeping rallies became in the days that followed. Such depictions of a deteriorating society are contrasted and weighed against personal loyalties, with one interviewee comparing his love with liberty and life, as expressed by a Hungarian poet. (p. 279)
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Dr. Kim is another featured interviewee who, through much of the book, also considers herself an ardent loyalist to North Korean socialism. As a doctor, particularly a busy one in a nation that has many people suffering from the effects of chronic starvation, lack of modern or even basic medicine,
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Facts about such contextual conditions are provided and presented in an informative and telling journalistic style. Keen insight is also provided into the personal experiences, attitudes and views about events, such as one most North Koreans remember, of what it was like for them as individuals on
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Demick's writing represents a well researched body of work about lives from such a secretive country, with enough personal details of daily life in North Korea not commonly found. Facts are presented to portray an accurate image of the state and plight North Koreans have faced, but also mentions
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Upon escaping to China in order to avoid impending starvation, Dr. Kim experiences a stark revelation. Her experience is captured to depict both her personal, psychological perspective, as well as suddenly realizing such drastic difference in societies she is confronted with:
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She still wanted to believe that her country was the best place in the world. The beliefs she had cherished for a lifetime would be vindicated. But now she couldn't deny what was staring her plainly in the face: dogs in China ate better than doctors in North
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An animated feature film based on the book and sharing the same title was planned to be directed by Andy Glynne. The project launched in 2012 and a pilot was released in 2015. Its status as of January 2018 is not clear.
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described Demick's work as a "fair, modest and informative book": "There is much to learn from this carefully written book that draws few conclusions beyond well-grounded individual cases."
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corruption and bribery (p. 218), her skills are in demand and she is relatively higher on the social class compared to other people interviewed in
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Dr. Kim – a doctor with relatives in China; goes from privilege and prestige to starvation and helplessness in treating her starving fellow citizens
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The six main interviewees in the book (using names different than their real ones to avoid any retribution to relatives left in North Korea) are:
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Oak-hee – Mrs. Song's rebellious, yet eventually enterprising, daughter, who is critical of the regime and only performs good "
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citizen's co-operative spying/reporting organisation reporting directly to secret police (State Security Department)
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Throughout the book, Demick describes the harsh experiences her subjects faced, much of it stemming from the "
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street-boy whose father commits him to an orphanage and must struggle to survive and fend for himself
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ancestry and Mi-ran's secret boyfriend in North Korea; becomes a privileged university student in
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but still develops a critical outlook on the regime and begins listening to "subversive"
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2008 page 179 "치가 등장 했고 , 이에 따라 출신 성분 에 따른 사회적 불평등 은 줄어들고 있는 것으로 보인다."
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because it is likely to be more representative than the capital
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who had escaped North Korea. In 2010, the book was awarded the
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The title comes from the children's theme song of the 1970
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The author chose to interview defectors from the city of
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has been widely praised, including accolades from the
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Index

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick
Spiegel & Grau
ISBN
0385523904
Dewey Decimal
nonfiction
Los Angeles Times
Barbara Demick
North Korean
Chongjin
BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
National Book Award
North Korean film
We Have Nothing to Envy in the World
Korean
RR
defectors
Chongjin
Pyongyang
Kippumjo
famine of the 1990s
Seoul
November 30, 2009 currency reform
Arduous March
2009 revaluation
substituted
songbun
inminban

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