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
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.