What to expect from a second Trump administration for Korea? How did North and South Korea react to to the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election?
Joining Mark Lippert and Victor Cha to discuss this and more are Michelle Ye Hee Lee from the Washington Post, Jeongmin Kim from NK News and Gordon Lubold from The Wall Street Journal.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee is The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief, reporting on Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Previously, she covered money and influence in politics and voting access on the national political enterprise and accountability team and was a reporter for The Post's Fact Checker. Prior to joining The Post in 2014, she was a government accountability reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix.
Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.
Gordon Lubold has covered the military and national security for more than 20 years, and is now the White House and national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining The Journal, he launched and authored three different national security newsletters for three outlets, including “Situation Report,” emailed to and read by 150,000 readers each morning. He served as a senior advisor at the United States Institute of Peace, and was national security correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. He has covered conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and across the Middle East and Central Asia, and has reported on military matters in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and East Asia.
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