As Demick demystifies for her readers the catastrophic economic collapse that led to one of the most devastating famines the world has ever seen, she focuses on the human collateral of such an unprecedented and unmitigated crisis. Kim, Kim Hyuck, and Oak-hee within the larger scope of North Korean history. Demick’s incisive reportage and ability to humanely, empathetically inhabit the mindsets of her interviewees makes Nothing to Envy a blend of fact and historical fiction, contextualizing the unbelievable and painful stories of Mi-ran, Jun-sang, Mrs. Her research culminated in the 2009 publication of Nothing to Envy, which novelizes and reimagines the stories of six North Korean defectors living in Seoul. Demick is an American journalist who worked for many years as the Los Angeles Times’s first bureau chief in South Korea, where she reported on human rights in North Korea and interviewed refugees making new lives for themselves in China and South Korea. Barbara Demick is the author and narrator of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
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