Stephen Winn Linton

He has visited North Korea over 80 times since 1979 and twice met the country's late president, Kim Il Sung, as an advisor and translator to the Rev.

He is also the founder and chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation, which provides medical humanitarian assistance to rural North Korea.

sponsors 12 medical centers serving patients in half of the country.

His father, Hugh Linton, established over 200 churches in rural Korea and his mother, Betty Linton, served 40 years as director of the Soonchun Christian Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Center.

His brother, John Alderman Linton, is the director of International Healthcare Center of Yonsei University in Seoul.