May 15, 2015
May 14, 2015 - In 2011, Jean Lee
became the first American reporter granted permission to work as a
journalist in North Korea, and a year later opened AP's Pyongyang
bureau, making the news agency the first and only US news outlet
with an office in the North Korean capital. Lee, who now serves as
a Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.,
shares photos and videos of homes, factories, schools and farms
typically off-limits to foreigners, and offers her personal
insights on daily life in North Korea. The award-winning journalist
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.
For more information, please visit the link below:
http://www.koreasociety.org/policy/opening_pyongyang.html