Barbara Demick

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'America Has Lost': Filipino President Announces 'Separation' from U.S.

Friday, October 21, 2016

“There are three of us against the world: China, Philippines, and Russia. It's the only way," the infamously brash Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday in Beijing. 

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North Korea Expels Journalists for 'Disrespectful' Reporting

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

On Monday, a BBC correspondent and his team were expelled from North Korea for reporting that spoke "ill of the system" ahead of the Workers’ Party Congress. 

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How an American Prom King Wound Up Detained in North Korea

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

In the same month that Kim Jong-un claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb, a former prom king from Ohio was detained in North Korea for a supposed "hostile act." Here's some backstory.

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Did Seth Rogen Cause the Sony Pictures Cyber Attack?

Thursday, December 04, 2014

North Korea’s regime hates the new Seth Rogen movie. Did they hack Sony Pictures’ computer systems in retaliation?

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Today's Highlights | March 25, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Also on Today's Show Last week, Transnistria’s leaders asked Russia’s parliament to consider its request to join the Russian Federation...With less than a week left for Americans to e...

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Crystal Meth is North Korea's State Secret

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Throughout the 1990s, meth was produced by the government of North Korea. But these days it’s ordinary North Koreans who have set up their own labs and are manufacturing and distribut...

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The Siege of Sarajevo: 20 Years Later

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Twenty years ago today, Serb militants opened fire on thousands of peace demonstrators in Sarajevo, the Muslim-led capitol city of the newly independent state of Bosnia-Hercegovina. T...

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Examining China's Role on an Unstable Korean Peninsula

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

After the death of two South Korean marines in a North Korean artillery attack on Tuesday, the United States has called on countries in the region to join with the U.S. in a unified diplomatic front. Since that call, China has condemned the attack and Hong Lei, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry called for "peace and stability on the Korean peninsula."

China has long been a strategic ally for North Korea, providing much needed food and humanitarian resources, but even the Chinese were taken by surprise by the attacks this week. And they seemed to be in the dark just a few days earlier when reports surfaced about North Korea's new uranium enrichment plant.

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Hearing North Koreans' Stories in 'Nothing to Envy'

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

We frequently aim to pull the curtain back on stories that are hidden or hard to understand…whether they’re political campaigns or scientific breakthroughs. But when it comes to the nation and story of North Korea, the curtain is more like an unscalable wall surrounded by an electric barbed wire fence; few people from the outside are truly able to access what’s so well hidden.

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China Could Lose its Character(s)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

One of the oldest written languages in the world is in danger of being forgotten. People in China send text messages more than any other population in the world, and many experts believe that this could lead to its people forgetting how to write Chinese characters. The phenomenon has been called, tibiwangzi: literally (take pen, forget character).

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Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick examines what life is like under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—North Korea.

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