North Korea—where there have been no reported covid diagnoses, but lots of speculation about the leader’s health—is a particularly difficult story to cover. In 2008, when it was Jean H. Lee’s first day as the chief of the Associated Press’s Korea bureau, she learned that Kim Jong-il, then the country’s supreme leader, had disappeared—he didn’t show up for a major holiday pageant. “I knew immediately that something was wrong, because he should have been there,” Lee recalled.
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- November 2024
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October 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Julie Mason Show: Jean Lee on North Korean Soldiers in Ukraine
- Oct 23, 2024 The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4: US: North Korea sending troops to Russia
- Oct 23, 2024 Newshour, BBC World Service: Jean Lee on North Korea troops in Russia
- Oct 20, 2024 NPR: Understanding the relationship between Russia and North Korea
- August 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
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January 2024
- Jan 31, 2024 Jean Lee on the Julie Mason Show for SiriusXM
- Jan 26, 2024 New York Times: U.S. Is Watching North Korea for Signs of Lethal Military Action
- Jan 17, 2024 Wall Street Journal: Kim Jong Un Has a New Enemy No. 1—and It Isn’t the U.S.
- Jan 9, 2024 Hawaii Public Radio: Journalist who reported from North Korea shares experience
- November 2023
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October 2023
- Oct 10, 2023 Beyond Utopia documentary
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September 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 PBS NewsHour: Concerns grow as Kim Jong Un pledges support for Putin's war in Ukraine
- Sep 12, 2023 NPR Consider This: What Putin and Kim Jong Un Stand to Gain by Meeting
- Sep 12, 2023 NPR All Things Considered: Putin's meeting with Kim Jong Un is about getting weapons and ammunition, experts say
- Sep 11, 2023 CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front: Kim Jong Un heads to Russia
- Sep 4, 2023 CNN: Kim Jong Un may meet with Vladimir Putin in Russia
- Sep 4, 2023 New York Times: Kim Jong-un and Putin Plan to Meet in Russia to Discuss Weapons
- August 2023
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July 2023
- Jul 26, 2023 Voice of America: American Journalist Recalls Life as Reporter Inside North Korea
- Jul 25, 2023 CBC Radio the Current Q&A: Detained American soldiers often used as 'bargaining chips' by North Korea: journalist
- Jul 25, 2023 The Current with Matt Galloway: The fate of a U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea
- June 2023
- April 2023
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March 2023
- Mar 27, 2023 BBC: Outside Source
- Mar 27, 2023 BBC: Global News Podcast
- Mar 17, 2023 BBC: South Korea-Japan summit
- Mar 15, 2023 BBC: The hackers are back: BBC’s The Lazarus Heist returns for season two
- Mar 6, 2023 Sky News Daily: What's going on with Kim Jong Un and his daughter?
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February 2023
- Feb 14, 2023 CNN: New signs Kim Jong Un is placing daughter in line for succession
- Feb 9, 2023 NPR Morning Edition: Kim Jong Un made another rare public appearance alongside his daughter Kim Ju Ae
- Feb 3, 2023 Julie Mason Mornings on Sirius XM: Spy Balloon
- Feb 1, 2023 RealClearDefense podcast Hotwash: North Korea's Cyber-Warriors with Jean Lee
- January 2023
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November 2022
- Nov 2, 2022 BBC World News Impact with Yalda Hakim
- October 2022
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September 2022
- Sep 22, 2022 Julie Mason Mornings on Sirius XM: Jean Lee on North Korea Threat
- Sep 12, 2022 BBC: The Lazarus Heist: Live in New York!
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May 2022
- May 26, 2022 PBS Newshour: North Korea scrambles to contain coronavirus outbreak
- May 25, 2022 Arirang TV: [NEWS IN-DEPTH] N. Korea's latest missile launches prompt allied show of force, condemnation
- May 19, 2022 NPR All Things Considered: North Korea is reporting a major disease outbreak, but it's not calling it COVID
- May 14, 2022 BBC World Service
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April 2022
- Apr 14, 2022 Peabody Awards: 82nd Annual Peabody Nominees Announced
- Apr 14, 2022 ABC: Between the Lines with Tom Switzer
- February 2022
- November 2021
- October 2021
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September 2021
- Sep 14, 2021 Columbia College Today: A Journalist’s Unmatched Access
- Sep 14, 2021 NPR: North Korean Missile Was A 'Cleverly Calculated Test'
- Sep 12, 2021 CNN The Situation Room: Kim Jong un boasts a svelte new look
- Sep 11, 2021 Voice of America: 미 전문가 "김정은, 열병식에서 '건강한 이미지' 연출...김일성 모습도 연상"
- Sep 8, 2021 Al Jazeera's The Stream: Why is North Korea resuming its nuclear programme?
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
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October 2020
- Oct 19, 2020 BBC World Service: How dangerous is North Korea?
- Oct 16, 2020 CJR: Medical Mystery
- Oct 10, 2020 New York Times: North Korea Unveils What Appears to Be New ICBM During Military Parade
- Oct 10, 2020 Washington Post: ‘A Dear Leader approach’: Trump’s critics compare his shows of strength around coronavirus to authoritarian tactics
- Oct 9, 2020 Washington Post: Trump’s dream of a Nobel Peace Prize kept alive by far-flung foreign allies
- Oct 8, 2020 Wall Street Journal: North Korea Loves Military Parades—Will Kim Jong Un Bring Out the Big Guns?
- July 2020
- May 2020
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April 2020
- Apr 28, 2020 Blu Radio: ¿Kim Jong-un está vivo o muerto?
- Apr 27, 2020 Fox Business: If Kim Jong Un is unwell, North Korea will likely go on lockdown to prepare succession plan: Expert
- Apr 27, 2020 NBC Today Show: Where is Kim Jong-un? Speculation intensifies over North Korean leader’s health
- Apr 25, 2020 PBS NewsHour: Where is North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? An expert weighs in
- Apr 25, 2020 New York Times: Where Is Kim Jong-un? How Experts Track North Korea's Leader
- Apr 20, 2020 NPR All Things Considered: U.S. Holds Line On North Korea Sanctions, As U.N. Details How The Country Evades Them
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 6, 2019 Wall Street Journal: North Korea says US misleading public over talks progress
- Oct 5, 2019 BBC Newshour: Jean Lee on resumption of working-level US-DPRK talks
- Oct 4, 2019 Washington Post: As nuclear talks resume, some fear Trump has already given Kim what he wanted: A spot on the world stage
- September 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 28, 2019 Washington Talk on Voice of America
- Jul 11, 2019 Quoted in New York Times: Trump’s Asia Gamble: Shatter Enduring Strategies on China and North Korea
- Jul 2, 2019 NBC News: A closer look into Trump and Kim’s relationship
- Jul 2, 2019 Jean Lee on NPR All Things Considered on Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting at DMZ
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 28, 2019 New York Times: Trump’s Talks With Kim Jong-un Collapse Over North Korean Sanctions
- Feb 27, 2019 New York Times: Trump Meets Kim Jong-un to Start Summit Talks
- Feb 27, 2019 NPR: What Has Been Accomplished Since The First Trump-Kim Summit?
- Feb 26, 2019 Fox News: Kim Jong Un faces mounting pressure to get sanctions relief for North Korea
- Feb 26, 2019 CNN: Trump Kim summit: What does a win for North Korea look like in Hanoi?
- Feb 11, 2019 PBS documentary: The Dictator's Playbook, Episode 1, Kim Il Sung
- Feb 9, 2019 Discussing the upcoming Trump-Kim summit on VoA's Washington Talk TV show
- Feb 4, 2019 Washington Post: He helped Trump confront North Korea. Now Ji Seong-ho wonders whether human rights will be left behind.
- January 2019
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November 2018
- Nov 22, 2018 National Geographic: Inside North Korea's Dynasty
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
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June 2018
- Jun 13, 2018 Washington Post: Documentary shows Trump saluting North Korean general
- Jun 10, 2018 NPR: What Daily Life In North Korea Looks Like
- Jun 10, 2018 CNN: Analysis: The moment the US treated North Korea "as an equal"
- Jun 6, 2018 Politico: Will Trump stand up for free press in Singapore?
- Jun 6, 2018 CBS News' Face the Nation
- Jun 6, 2018 BBC: Kim Jong-un: The new kid on the diplomatic block
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
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February 2018
- Feb 22, 2018 VICE News Tonight: Binge watching North Korean TV is surreal — and educational
- Feb 21, 2018 VICE News Tonight (HBO): North Korean soap operas
- Feb 19, 2018 CNBC: North Korea is at the Olympics — but North Koreans probably won't get to see much of it
- Feb 13, 2018 Vice News Tonight|HBO on Instagram
- Feb 10, 2018 NPR's All Things Considered: The Political Gamesmanship Behind The 2018 Winter Olympics
- Feb 3, 2018 Fox News: North Korea pushing 'vanity projects' as Olympics near
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January 2018
- Jan 28, 2018 AP: Chloe Kim: California kid heads to South Korea's games
- Jan 25, 2018 SCMP: Lessons for today of USS Pueblo’s 1968 capture by North Korea
- Jan 22, 2018 New York Times: A Few Questions for Our 52 Places Traveler
- Jan 19, 2018 Business Insider: Go inside the North Korean ski field where South Korea will join the North for Winter Olympics training
- Jan 18, 2018 NPR WBUR Here and Now: North Korean Olympic performers 'propaganda coup'
- Jan 13, 2018 BBC World Service: The World This Week
- Jan 10, 2018 ABC The World: North Korea to send athletes to Olympics in South after high-level talks
- Jan 8, 2018 NPR, All Things Considered: North Koreans' Attitudes Of The U.S.
- Jan 8, 2018 Global News: Buy North Korean: the country’s push for more domestic goods on store shelves
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December 2017
- Dec 23, 2017 NBC News: How Kim Jong Un bested Donald Trump in the slugfest that was 2017
- Dec 19, 2017 MPR: Brinkmanship: The U.S. and North Korea
- Dec 18, 2017 BBC Newshour: Inside North Korea's Soap Operas
- Dec 11, 2017 Washington Post: What you can learn from watching North Korean soap operas
- Dec 10, 2017 Korean Kontext: What Can North Korean Soap Operas Tell Us About Kim Jong-un’s Priorities?
- Dec 3, 2017 Global News: How North Korea is using TV sitcoms as state propaganda
- Dec 1, 2017 KEI: Press Release | Soap Operas and Socialism: Dissecting Kim Jong-un’s Evolving Policy Priorities through TV Dramas in North Korea
- November 2017
- October 2017
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September 2017
- Sep 21, 2017 New York Times: Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ What Does That Even Mean?
- Sep 6, 2017 WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show: North Korea Continues to Test Bombs
- Sep 6, 2017 John Batchelor Show: Where in the world is Kim Han Sol?
- Sep 5, 2017 PBS NewsHour: How South Koreans are responding to pressure on North Korea from Trump
- Sep 5, 2017 CNN: N. Korea believed to be moving intercontinental missile, Seoul lawmaker says, by Taehoon Lee and Josh Berlinger
- Sep 4, 2017 CNN: U.S., South Korea to deploy military assets, Sept. 4, 2017
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August 2017
- Aug 30, 2017 BBC NewsHour: Missile Launch a 'prelude' says North Korea, Aug. 30, 2017
- Aug 30, 2017 Foreign Policy: Should You Go to North Korea While You Still Can? By Eric Fish
- Aug 29, 2017 BBC Radio 4 Today on Aug. 29, 2017
- Aug 29, 2017 BBC Radio Scotland: Good Morning Scotland on Aug. 29, 2017
- Aug 25, 2017 CNN International: S. Korean Court to Rule in Samsung Corruption Case
- Aug 25, 2017 C-SPAN: The Rise and Rule of North Korea's Kim Dynasty
- Aug 10, 2017 BBC Newshour: North Korea's Guam Missile Threats
- Aug 7, 2017 Al Jazeera: US, South Korea laud new UN sanctions on Pyongyang
- Aug 7, 2017 CNBC: North Korea sanctions could trigger more missiles and test US-China ties
- July 2017
- April 2017
- February 2017
- May 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
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September 2015
- Sep 5, 2015 KOREAN FOOD MADE SIMPLE WITH JUDY JOO
- July 2015
- May 2015
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March 2015
- Mar 15, 2015 CNN: Beyond the DMZ: Tweeting from North Korea
- February 2015
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January 2015
- Jan 28, 2015 BBC World Service: What Does Kim Jong Un Want?
- Jan 28, 2015 BBC: What does Kim Jong Un Want? Jan. 28, 2015
- Jan 16, 2015 Wilson Center: Jean H. Lee Joins the Wilson Center's NKIDP as a Public Policy Fellow
- Jan 8, 2015 조선일보: [통일이 미래다] "北주민 성취욕·교육열 대단… 희망 봤다"
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April 2014
- Apr 21, 2014 The Guardian: North Korea experts on Twitter
- February 2014
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November 2013
- Nov 19, 2013 Yonhap News: AP 초대 평양지국장 "北 경제 강조는 변화의 신호"
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August 2013
- Aug 13, 2013 FP: Twitterati 100
- July 2013
- April 2013
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March 2013
- Mar 31, 2013 VN Express: Liệu Triều Tiên có hiện thực hóa chiến tranh
- Mar 30, 2013 El Observador: El régimen de la retórica mística
- Mar 30, 2013 Der Westen: Twitter bietet seltene Einblicke in den nordkoreanischen Alltag
- Mar 29, 2013 New Focus Intl: Exclusive: Glimpses Behind-the-Scenes of Dennis Rodman’s Trip to North Korea
- Mar 21, 2013 Le Monde: La Corée du Nord en direct sur Skype
- Mar 13, 2013 Washington Post: A rare glimpse of North Korea’s version of Facebook
- Mar 11, 2013 Austin Chronicle: Social Media in North Korea The AP bureau chief from Pyongyang on cell service, Instagram, etc.
- Mar 11, 2013 Buzzfeed: A Rare Glimpse At North Korea's Tech Culture
- Mar 10, 2013 RTV SLO: Čivkanje iz Severne Koreje in digitalna revolucija
- Mar 1, 2013 Bend Bulletin: Tweeting in North Korea Tweets, pics give real-time peek into North Korea
- Mar 1, 2013 Copy of Bend Bulletin: Tweeting in North Korea Tweets, pics give real-time peek into North Korea
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February 2013
- Feb 28, 2013 AP: @AP views of North Korea via Instagram and the wire
- Feb 28, 2013 Macleans: Jean H. Lee's Instagram from North Korea
- Feb 28, 2013 ABC News: Instagram Opens Lens on North Korea
- Feb 28, 2013 Engadget: Instagram, Twitter posts begin to flow from North Korean 3G network
- Feb 26, 2013 Daily Mail: The first Instagram photos posted from North Korea: Colorful images prove app can make the grimmest of places look beautiful
- Feb 25, 2013 Daily Mail: The First Instagram Pics Taken from Inside North Korea
- Feb 25, 2013 QZ: The mobile web is alive in North Korea as tweets and Instagram photos trickle out
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January 2013
- Jan 13, 2013 VOA: [인터뷰] 존 대너셰프스키 AP 부사장 "올해 본사기자 평양 상주 기대"
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August 2012
- Aug 12, 2012 CJR: The AP’s North Korea bureau
- July 2012
- June 2012
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April 2012
- Apr 11, 2012 KoreAm: Inside North Korea
- Apr 8, 2012 NBC News: A rare peek inside North Korea
- January 2012
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August 2011
- Aug 1, 2011 The Atlantic: Inside North Korea
- June 2011
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