Hong Kong – ‘Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea’ with Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times

Barbara Demick is Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and has been interviewing North Koreans about their lives since 2001, when she moved to Seoul to report for the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club award for human rights reporting, the Asia Society’s Osborne Eliott award and the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Award. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea won the U.K.’s top non-fiction prize, the Samuel Johnson award, in 2010 and was a finalist for both the National Book Awards and a National Book Critics Circle Awards.