in East Asian studies and English literature from Columbia University in 1992 and her M.S.

[2] She first worked for The Korea Herald in Seoul, and then joined the Associated Press (AP) and was assigned to bureaus in Baltimore; Fresno, California.

; San Francisco; New York; London; Seoul, where she was AP's South Korean bureau chief.

[3] In 2011, she was the first American reporter granted extensive access to North Korea.

[5] She is currently the co-host of the BBC podcast, "The Lazarus Heist," which is about a high-profile cybercrime that investigators have linked to North Korea.