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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.

News

Congressmen blame China for need for THAAD deployment

Beijing has responsibility to ensure that Pyongyang acts in 'rational' manner, one says

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 29, 2015
News

Analyst sees potential in North Korean AIIB membership

U.S. influence would likely block any effort to bring North into multilateral institution, expert says

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 27, 2015
Analysis

N. Korea watchers see little hope for long-term impact from WomenCross

Experts keen on engagement see need for further work to build on march, which looks unlikely to materialize

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 25, 2015
Analysis

North-Korea-as-terror-sponsor debate continues with House bill

What a House bill calling North Korea a state sponsor of terror would, and wouldn't, do

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 22, 2015
News

Raise awareness, send media into N. Korea: Yeonmi Park

Famed defector recalls growing up afraid of self-expression, unaware of outside world

Rob YorkRob YorkMay 20, 2015
Evergreen

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
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