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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged North Korea

1. December 20, 2011 04:24 PM

   The Great Teacher of Journalists: Kim Jong-il

   How the Dear Leader was (and was not) like your editor

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has died. A couple of days, perhaps, after the Dear Leader passed, the state news agency informed the people, citing Kim’s “overwork” on behalf of North Koreans and related “mental and physical strain.” Strain at least some of which can be attributed to the work required to maintain the country’s standing, for some ten years...

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2. August 2, 2012 11:00 AM

   The AP’s North Korea bureau

   Yep, they’ve had one, based in the country’s capital, for seven months

   By Hazel Sheffield

   North Korea was just two weeks out of a national period of mourning the death of Kim Jong-il in January when two Associated Press journalists, Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and chief Asia photographer David Guttenfelder, opened the AP’s Pyongyang bureau. The move was sold to the regime as a print and photography expansion of the video bureau the...

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