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December 25, 2024

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Rob York

Rob York

Rob York is director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. He previously worked as a production editor for The South China Morning Post and chief editor of NK News. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in Korean history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Reporting on North Korean defectors, struggling with objectivity

Reporter's 'journalistic detachment' masked fear, anger while covering refugees' flight to freedom

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 4, 2015
Features

Defection from N. Korea: A report from the war zone

Journalist haunted by memories of North Koreans he reported on in China, Siberia, elsewhere

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 4, 2015
News

Re-list North Korea as state sponsor of terrorism – Report

Pyongyang, de-listed in 2008, commits numerous actions meriting designation, report argues

Rob YorkRob YorkApril 27, 2015
Interviews

Authors strove to depict North Koreans as they really live

Eschewing 'regime change' predictions, authors nonetheless have much to say about change in the regime

Rob YorkRob YorkApril 23, 2015
Features

North Koreans show independence despite dictatorship: Book

'North Korea Confidential' demonstrates citizens' growing options despite looming state power

Rob YorkRob YorkApril 23, 2015
Features

Fighter pilot’s story says much about unseen side of Korean War

'Camp 14' author rebounds with new daring defection tale, which says great deal about Korean War realpolitik

Rob YorkRob YorkMarch 30, 2015
News

North Korean state media praises Lippert attack

KCNA says slashing of U.S. ambassador to Seoul reflects S. Korean opinion

Rob YorkRob YorkMarch 5, 2015
News

Israeli PM cites North Korea in speech to Congress

Experts consider comparison of Iran-DPRK nuclear programs misleading

Rob YorkRob YorkMarch 4, 2015
News

N. Korean Politburo shows ‘discouraging’ military emphasis: Expert

Recently repopulated body shows few members with economic, provincial backgrounds needed for reform

Rob YorkRob YorkFebruary 25, 2015
Analysis

The myth of a sealed China-N. Korea border

Stories of widespread border fencing, and of increased tensions between neighbors, are highly exaggerated

Rob YorkRob YorkFebruary 25, 2015
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