{"id":59,"date":"2012-06-27T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.01.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang-2\/2012\/06\/about-rimjin-gan\/profiles_of_our_north_korean_reporters\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T09:36:52","slug":"profiles_of_our_north_korean_reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2012\/06\/about-rimjin-gan\/profiles_of_our_north_korean_reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u25cf Profiles of Our North Korean Reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

(All the names our staff in North Korea are noms de plume.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Kim Dong-cheol<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Kim is in his thirties and lives in the northern region of North Korea. He started his journalistic activities in 2009 while working as a company driver.<\/span>
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\n\"R_NK_profile00X158\"Lee Song-hui<\/strong>
\nLee is in her forties and resides in the central part of the country. She has successfully carried out two video reports from inside Pyongyang.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paek Hyang<\/strong>
\nPaek, a mother of two in her forties, lives in the northern part of North Korea. She began her work as a journalist in 2005 after meeting Ishimaru during a brief border crossing into China. She says she wants to show the outside world North Korean society from a woman's perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"R_profile003\"Shim Ui-chun<\/strong>
\nShim is a man in his thirties living in central North Korea. His 2008 report on the Hwanghae region became a global scoop.
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\nChang Jeong-gil<\/strong>
\nChang, in his forties, lives in the central party of the country. He works as a laborer at a worksite involved in machinery. He enjoys photography and hopes to become a photojournalist.<\/p>\n

\"R_profile002\"Lee Jun<\/strong>
\nLee Jun is in his thirties and resides in central North Korea. He used to be a laborer at a machine factory. In 1999 during the mass famine of the \"March of Tribulation,\" he crossed the border into China with his family. While living as a vagrant in China, he ran into Ishimaru who was making a report at the time. It was then that he decided to return to North Korea as a journalist to show the world the true situation there. He has been recording video within the country since 2004.<\/p>\n

Kae Myung-bin<\/strong>
\nKae is currently an economic official in North Korea in his forties. He has worked for many years in operations at a large company and is a Rimjin-gang collaborator.<\/p>\n

\"R_NK_profile00X159\"Ryu Kyung-won<\/strong>
\nRyu, in his forties, previously worked at a trading organization in Pyongan Province. After serving in the military and graduating from Pyongyang Agricultural University, he worked for a while as an agricultural science researcher.
\nHe then became a laborer for a foreign currency procurement company, where he was also a trade supervisor. He often went to China for this job.
\nIn 2003 Ryu escaped from North Korea and currently resides in China where he does reporting.<\/p>\n

PROFILES:
\n<\/strong>ASIAPRESS North Korea Reporting Team >><\/a><\/span><\/span>
\n\"Rimjin-gang<\/a>
\n* Editor's notes on North Korean reporters<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a>ALL REPORTS >>><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>
\nARCHIVE(pdf) >><\/a><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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