Jean H. Lee is an award-winning journalist and expert on North Korea who is now co-host of the Peabody-nominated The Lazarus Heist podcast for the BBC World Service. As a journalist, Lee led the Associated Press news agency’s coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief (2008-2013). In 2011, she became the first American reporter to join the Pyongyang foreign press corps, and in January 2012, she opened AP’s Pyongyang bureau. From 2008 to 2017, Lee made dozens of extended reporting trips to North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies, and homes in the course of her exclusive coverage across the country. Ms. Lee worked as a reporter for the Korea Herald in Seoul, South Korea, before being posted with AP to the news agency\'s bureaus in Baltimore; Fresno, Calif.; San Francisco; New York; London; Seoul, South Korea, and Pyongyang, North Korea. Reporting assignments took her across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. In 2015, she joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as a fellow, and then served as director of the Wilson Center’s Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy (2018-2021). She is currently a public policy fellow with the Wilson Center. Ms. Lee has served as a CNN contributor and has provided reporting and commentary to a wide range of media outlets. She also appears in the National Geographic series “Inside North Korea” as well PBS’ “Dictator’s Playbook” and Netflix’s “How to Become a Tyrant,” among others.