“Along the eight-hundred-and-fifty mile border with China, everybody knows someone who knows someone who has been to China, and has heard the tales of the unimaginable riches on the other side.
Barbara Demick, “Nothing Left: Is North Korea finally facing collapse?”; The New Yorker, July 12 & 19, 2010.
For Americans thinking China is a country of poor people, impoverished North Koreans see something else. Americans’ perspective and that of North Koreans’ go so oddly together. The New Yorker has a podcast with Barbara, who has new book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
Do you have a foreign perspectives story that you’d like told? Please email Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail dot com.
