How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Panel)
Quote #1
You’ve got to be ready for anything when you travel. (1.39)
Any region is different from your home, but North Korea is different from every other place on the planet. Its motto should be “expect the unexpected.”
Quote #2
You can pick up a dozen frequencies on AM and FM, but they all play the same station. (3.33)
What a disappointment. Guy smuggles in a radio but can’t listen to anything good on it. Frankly, we’re not sure what he expects. We doubt NPR has a tower in Pyongyang. We doubt anything has a tower in Pyongyang.
Quote #3
Food aid has poured in, feeding up to a third of the country’s population. (3.94)
It’s incredible how a country with such ostentatious buildings—a hotel with a revolving restaurant on top—needs so much aid. What are they doing with all that money? Oh, wait: that hotel with a revolving restaurant on top...