Jean Lee joins Lewis Vaughan Jones on BBC’s The Context to discuss BBC reports about hunger and food shortages in North Korea.
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Washington Journal: Jean Lee on U.S.-South Korean Relations and Biden Asia Policy →
Jean Lee talks about South Korean President Yoon’s visit to the U.S. and Biden administration policy toward Asia.
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Julie Mason Mornings on Sirius XM: Jean Lee on North Korea Threat →
Jean Lee joins Elliot Williams to discuss the possibility of North Korea providing weapons to Russia and how South Koreans have become numb to the threat of North Korea.
Read MoreNPR: How To Stay Safe And Healthy As Coronavirus Cases Rise →
The U.S. continues to shatter its own daily record for new COVID-19 cases. Over 67,000 single-day infections were reported in the U.S. on July 14, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The surge is largely due to outbreaks in Texas, Florida, Arizona and California. But nearly all states are seeing their cases climb, and it's not concentrated in metropolitan areas.
What's going on here? Where is the U.S. in its fight against the pandemic? Are we losing?
Read MoreBBC Newshour: Jean Lee on resumption of working-level US-DPRK talks
Jean Lee on the resumption of working-level talks between the United States and North Korea.
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NBC News: A closer look into Trump and Kim’s relationship →
A closer look into President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s relationship after the historic meeting this weekend. We met with Jean Lee the director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center and former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Associated Press who gave us a glimpse into their relationship and what it means going forward.
Read MoreCBS Face the Nation: What does Trump's meeting with Kim mean for nuclear talks? →
CBS News senior national security contributor Michael Morell and The Wilson Center's Jean Lee join Margaret Brennan to discuss the future of North Korean relations after President Trump's historic meeting with Kim Jong Un.
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New York Times: Why Is the U.S. Wary of a Declaration to End the Korean War? →
“You have South Korea moving so quickly on these projects to push for reconciliation with North Korea, and in Washington you have people pushing for denuclearization before anything else happens,” said Jean H. Lee, director of the Wilson Center’s center for Korean history and public policy. “They have very different end games and very different time frames. It’s very problematic.”
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Washington Post: Documentary shows Trump saluting North Korean general
Though only a brief interaction, it was telling that the salute was included in the documentary, according to Jean H. Lee, a North Korea scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
“This is a moment that will be used over and over in North Korea’s propaganda as 'proof' that the American president defers to the North Korean military,” Lee said. “It will be treated as a military victory by the North Koreans.”
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NPR: What Daily Life In North Korea Looks Like
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with North Korea expert Jean Lee about what daily life is like in the country and how much the average person knows about the upcoming summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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Politico: Will Trump stand up for free press in Singapore? →
When President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, it will mark the coming together of perhaps the world’s most sealed-off and press-hostile autocrat with a president who frequently rages against the media, all in a country known for its repressive views on free speech.
Needless to say, journalists are concerned over what access will be granted at the historic meeting.
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CBS News' Face the Nation →
Jean Lee joins host Margaret Brennan and Sue Mi Terry of CSIS to discuss the latest on North Korea on Face the Nation.
Read MoreBBC: Kim Jong-un: The new kid on the diplomatic block →
Kim Jong-un has suddenly become the new popular leader in the political class of 2018.
After years in isolation, he has emerged as a powerful player. Leaders from China, Russia, Syria, South Korea and the US have all met or are due to meet Mr Kim this year.
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NPR: What To Know About North And South Korea's Leaders Ahead Of Their Summit →
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jean Lee, Director of the Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She talks about what is known about the leaders of both North and South Korea, and what this summit means for both of them.
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NPR: What To Expect From Friday's Summit Between North And South Korea →
There's reason for caution when it comes to expectations about North Korea, warns Jean Lee, director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Kim's understanding of "denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula — a key U.S. goal — may be very different from what President Trump expects, says Lee.
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The Diplomat: What Does a Trump-Kim Meeting Mean for China? →
“Kim Jong-un is making it clear that he is no one’s ‘little brother’ — certainly not China’s. He wants to sit at the table with the United States.”Read More
Washington Post: A North Korean propaganda film foretold proposed talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un →
The news that President Trump had accepted an offer to meet Kim Jong Un to talk about North Korean denuclearization took many people by surprise.
Thursday's announcement had come after nearly a year of rapidly increasing tension between the United States and North Korea, as Pyongyang made considerable leaps in its nuclear weapons program despite the Trump administration's “maximum pressure” strategy.
But this scenario may have been foretold. As Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on North Korea's nuclear program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey has noted, there was a preview of a similar line of events — in a North Korean propaganda film aired years ago.
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VICE News Tonight: Binge watching North Korean TV is surreal — and educational →
To understand more about what North Koreans are watching and what the government wants them to think, we arranged a screening with Jean Lee, who became an expert in North Korean television when she worked as a journalist in Pyongyang.
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VICE News Tonight (HBO): North Korean soap operas →
In order to learn more about Kim’s policy priorities and everyday life in the secretive kingdom, VICE News binges North Korean soaps with the Wilson Center’s Jean Lee.
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CNBC: North Korea is at the Olympics — but North Koreans probably won't get to see much of it
"The North Koreans won't have the same kind of access to the Olympics as we do. But if their athletes do well, they will certainly be celebrating it."
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The FT’s review of The Lazarus Heist, the Peabody-nominated BBC World Service podcast.