ISHIAMRU Jiro
Ishimaru Jiro
Ishimaru was born in 1962 in Osaka, Japan. He is the Osaka office representative for ASIAPRESS.
He studied abroad in Seoul for two and a half years and then in '93 traversed the entire 1400 kilometer China-North Korean border.
He has made reports from inside North Korea three times, and has been to the border region more than ninety times. Up to now he has interviewed more than 900 North Koreans.
Ishimaru is the publisher and chief editor of Rimjin-gang.
------------------------------------------
About Our Team - ASIAPRESS and Rimjin-gang 
* Editor's notes on North Korean reporters
ALL REPORTS >>>
ARCHIVE(pdf) >>
![[Video Report] Tighter Sino-North Korean Border Control During Last 20 Years](https://www.asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/222-150x150.jpg)
