Official White House Photo by Erin Scott | President Joe Biden walks through the Cross Hall of the White House on Aug. 31, 2021
As long-term readers are aware, in the past, yours truly has occasionally published short reports about my trips abroad and conversations about North Korea with policymakers in various countries.
The pandemic put a pause on these international meetings, but I finally managed to visit Washington, D.C. last month, finding a peculiar and strange ghost town of sorts where most still preferred to work remotely.
As long-term readers are aware, in the past, yours truly has occasionally published short reports about my trips abroad and conversations about North Korea with policymakers in various countries.
The pandemic put a pause on these international meetings, but I finally managed to visit Washington, D.C. last month, finding a peculiar and strange ghost town of sorts where most still preferred to work remotely.
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Andrei Lankov is a Director at NK News and writes exclusively for the site as one of the world's leading authorities on North Korea. A graduate of Leningrad State University, he attended Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University from 1984-5 - an experience you can read about here. In addition to his writing, he is also a Professor at Kookmin University.