The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
Join us for a WACC Speaker Series virtual presentation with Anna Fifield, Beijing Bureau Chief at The Washington Post on Thursday, May 28 as she shares “the behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign” of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s premier and elusive tyrant. She’ll offer insight into his penchant for political drama, his obsession with provoking the United States (and others in the world) with threats of nuclear missiles and war, and North Korea’s status in the world.
WACC Speaker Series (virtual)
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Register online (Free to WACC members and non-members)
Biography
Anna Fifield is the Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post, covering all aspects of greater China. She was the Post’s bureau chief in Tokyo between 2014 and 2018, focusing on Japan and the Koreas but periodically reporting from other parts of the region. She particularly concentrated on North Korea, trying to shed light on the lives of ordinary people there and also on how the regime managed to stay in power. She is the author of “The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un.”
She started as a journalist in her home country of New Zealand, then worked for the Financial Times for 13 years. During her time there, she reported from almost 20 countries, from Iran and Libya to North Korea and Australia. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard, studying how change happens in closed societies. Honors & Awards: Shorenstein Journalism Award for Asia coverage, from Stanford University, 2018 Finalist, Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize, 2017 Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University, 2013-2014 Books by Anna Fifield: The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Education: University of Canterbury, New Zealand, postgraduate diploma in journalism; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, BA