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Jean served as emcee of the 3rd Annual Women of Impact event held by the East-West Center, where the EWC’s Board of Governors honored President Hilda C. Heine of the Marshall Islands with this year’s Women of Impact Award to celebrate the remarkable achievements of women leaders. Jean also moderated a discussion exploring the role of women in innovation and their impact on addressing critical challenges with Dr. Yanghee Lee, Professor Emeritus, Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Child Psychology and Education; Mona Pasquil Rogers, Director of California Government Engagement, Meta, and Kristen Udui, Graduate Degree Fellow, East-West Center. View photos from the event on Flickr.

On Oct. 15, 2024, Jean spoke at the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono’s Asia Summit at New Zealand’s Parliament in Welllington, joining leading experts on Asia from New Zealand and offshore to discuss the big trends shaping the region for an event marking the Foundation’s 30th anniversary.

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Oct 26, 2024

East-West Center: Women of Impact Awards 2024

Oct 26, 2024

Jean served as emcee at the 2024 Women of Impact event at the East-West Center to honor President Hilda C. Heine of the Marshall Islands, and moderated a panel discussion on women’s leadership with Dr. Yanghee Lee, Mona Pasquil Rogers and Kristen Udui.

Oct 26, 2024

Sep 26, 2024

Atlantic Council's Global Future Forum: Reporters at risk

Sep 26, 2024

Journalists with firsthand experience in authoritarian countries shed light on the challenges that journalists face reporting on closed societies, discuss ways to help reporters overcome these challenges, and explore how this vital work relates to the broader global struggle between democracy and autocracy.

Sep 26, 2024

Jun 25, 2024

East-West Center: International Media Conference 2024

Jun 25, 2024

Generative AI is everywhere in the news today, but where will it be tomorrow? Jean Lee speaks to Charlie Beckett and Art Min about how artificial intelligence will shape the coming years, from elections to academia to mass media, and everything in between.

Jun 25, 2024

Jan 10, 2024

East-West Center: Assignment Pyongyang: A Journalist’s Perspective on Life in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea

Jan 10, 2024

Jean Lee shares her perspective on how to read and understand North Korea today in a talk at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Jan 10, 2024

Jul 27, 2023

House Foreign Affairs Committee: Illicit IT: Bankrolling Kim Jong Un

Jul 27, 2023

Jean Lee testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs about North Korea’s suspected illicit financing campaign using cyber theft.

Jul 27, 2023

Apr 13, 2023

Korea Society: The North Korean Cyber Threat

Apr 13, 2023

Jean Lee joins cybersecurity expert Michael Barnhart and Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado for a discussion about the North Korean cyber threat.

Apr 13, 2023

Sep 26, 2022

BBC: The Lazarus Heist LIVE in New York City

Sep 26, 2022

Jean Lee joins co-host Geoff White and musician Dessa — along with special guests — for a live recording of the Lazarus Heist podcast in New York City.

Sep 26, 2022

Jun 20, 2022

East Asia Institute: Financing Pyongyang’s Provocations - Kim Jong Un’s Cyber Strategy

Jun 20, 2022

For this month, we invited Jean Lee, Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center, to discuss North Korea’s cyber-attacks and how they finance Pyongyang’s missile developments despite the international sanctions against the regime.

Jun 20, 2022

Mar 4, 2021

Korea Society: New Developments in Inter-Korea Relations

Mar 4, 2021

Jean Lee speaks with senior director Stephen Noerper on ROK-DPRK relations. They address impasse and opportunity between North Korea and South Korea and offer recommendations for US and other policy makers on peninsular realities and possibilities.

Mar 4, 2021

Nov 15, 2018

Korea Global Forum 2018: A New Path Forward: Charting a Roadmap to Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Nov 15, 2018

Jean Lee welcomes Cho Myoung-Gyon, Minister of Unification for South Korea, to Washington, DC, to share his thoughts on inter-Korean unity and prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Nov 15, 2018

May 1, 2018

Milken Institute Global Conference 2018: Avoiding War with North Korea

May 1, 2018

Is the perfect storm brewing on the Korean Peninsula? Jean Lee joins geopolitical experts at the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss security in East Asia and potential avenues for conflict resolution.

May 1, 2018

Mar 13, 2018

Wilson Center: The Trump-Kim Summit: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects

Mar 13, 2018

In a high-stakes diplomatic gamble, President Trump has accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – and the dramatic development raises crucial questions:

Could this summit lead to meaningful constraints on North Korea’s nuclear program? What are the attitudes of China and South Korea toward bilateral U.S.-North Korean diplomacy? What preparatory work must be done to ensure a successful summit? And what would be the criteria for success?

In this Ground Truth Briefing, three veteran observers of U.S.-Asia policy and North Korea addressed these issues.

Mar 13, 2018

Nov 29, 2017

Korea Economic Institute: Soap Operas and Socialism: Kim Jong-un’s Policy Priorities through TV Dramas in North Korea

Nov 29, 2017

Romance, humor, tension — everyone loves a good sitcom, even North Koreans. But in North Korea, TV dramas are more than mere entertainment. They play a crucial political role by serving as a key messenger of the party and government policy.

Nov 29, 2017

Oct 10, 2017

Brookings Institution: The path forward: Who is Kim Jong Un?

Oct 10, 2017

Leading U.S. experts and former officials to identify actionable policy steps the White House and Congress should take to address the growing threat from North Korea.

Oct 10, 2017

Aug 25, 2017

C-SPAN: The Rise and Rule of North Korea's Kim Dynasty

Aug 25, 2017

The Sidebar with Steve Scully: As tensions with North Korea rise, this week we examine the history of that country's ruling Kim family. We spoke to Jean H Lee, author of "Kings of Communism: Inside Kim Jong Un's Bloody Scramble to Kill of His Family" in the September edition of Esquire Magazine.

Aug 25, 2017

Jun 7, 2017

Chicago Council: NORTH KOREA ON THE BRINK?

Jun 7, 2017

What steps should the United States and South Korea take to maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia?

Jun 7, 2017

Dec 6, 2016

Wilson Center: Beyond Caricatures: Writing About the Real North Korea

Dec 6, 2016

Award-winning foreign correspondents, researchers and writers on the challenges of writing about North Korea today, from getting on the ground to turning to defectors for information about daily life inside the Hermit Kingdom.

Dec 6, 2016

Jul 29, 2016

Aspen Security Forum: Peril on the 38th Parallel

Jul 29, 2016

Can Kim Jong Un be stopped before he turns the peninsula, and the region, into a nuclear wasteland? Jean Lee speaks at the Aspen Security Forum.

Jul 29, 2016

May 14, 2015

Korea Society: Opening Pyongyang

May 14, 2015

Jean Lee discusses the challenges of reporting on a country considered among the world's worst for press freedom, the role her Korean-American ethnicity played in her interactions with the North Koreans, and her observations on reunification after working as a journalist on both sides of the DMZ.

May 14, 2015

Mar 9, 2013

SXSW: Tweets from the DMZ: Social Media in North Korea

Mar 9, 2013

Social media has transformed culture, communication, creativity and journalism in every nation on Earth — other than North Korea, of course. Wait — not so fast. What do we really know about social media’s role in the mysterious nation — or what role it could play in the future, in the open or underground? Get some insight and answers to your questions as Associated Press Social Media Editor Eric Carvin leads a conversation with AP Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee, a social media-savvy journalist with firsthand expertise on the reclusive regime north of the 38th parallel.

Mar 9, 2013

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BBC World Service: The Lazarus Heist: Live in New York

September 25, 2022

We're recording a live special episode of the Lazarus Heist at The Greene Space in New York on Monday 26 September, 2022.

Jean Lee and Geoff White will be in conversation with special guests, and you'll have the chance to ask questions about the Lazarus Group, or anything about the story or the podcast. Plus, the event will be hosted by musician and writer, Dessa - host of her own fantastic podcast, Deeply Human.

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