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What's happening inside North Korea? Since the pandemic, the window has slammed shut.
Asia & Pacific
What’s happening inside North Korea? Since the pandemic, the window has slammed shut.
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee
Yesterday at 3:00 a.m. EDT
TOKYO — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump were sitting across a circular wooden table for a brief photo opportunity at their 2019 summit in Vietnam when a U.S. reporter asked a question of Kim.
To the world’s surprise, he responded — the first time Kim, the leader of the world’s most closed society, engaged with the foreign media.
In the 2½ years since, North Korea has basically clammed up again. It has become so opaque that Kim’s stunning exchange in Hanoi seems unimaginable in the current information vacuum.
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By Michelle Lee
Michelle Ye Hee Lee is The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, covering Japan and the Korean peninsula. Twitter https://twitter.com/myhlee
What’s happening inside North Korea? Since the pandemic, the window has slammed shut.
By Michelle Ye Hee Lee
Yesterday at 3:00 a.m. EDT
TOKYO — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump were sitting across a circular wooden table for a brief photo opportunity at their 2019 summit in Vietnam when a U.S. reporter asked a question of Kim.
To the world’s surprise, he responded — the first time Kim, the leader of the world’s most closed society, engaged with the foreign media.
In the 2½ years since, North Korea has basically clammed up again. It has become so opaque that Kim’s stunning exchange in Hanoi seems unimaginable in the current information vacuum.
{snip}
By Michelle Lee
Michelle Ye Hee Lee is The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, covering Japan and the Korean peninsula. Twitter https://twitter.com/myhlee