Yong Suk Lee

Stanford University

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Yong Suk Lee is deputy director of the Korea Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University

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It's the most isolated nation in the modern world, a closed society that the information age has barely penetrated, a place where teenagers have never heard of Beyonce and Facebook is…

Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Eyewitness views from North Korea

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