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Anna Fifield

Anna Fifield is a journalist for the Washington Post

June 2019

  • Kim Jong-un watches a military display in Pyongyang.

    'They said Kim Jong-un could fire a gun at age three'

    A new biography reveals another side to the North Korean dictator. The journalist who wrote it explores the reality behind the propaganda

November 2015

  • Jang Eun-jung at work in a coffee shop

    North Korea network
    South Korean cafe gives North Koreans a chance to succeed

    Seoul businessman sees his venture as a way to prepare North and South for reunification

May 2015

  • Thai monk smoking

    Hardliner tries to reform Thailand’s Buddhist monks behaving badly

  • Aone elementary students line up in front of a teacher

    Japan’s rural schools run out of students

March 2015

  • A pack of American Spirit cigarettes.

    North Korea network
    North Korea’s budding entrepreneurs get a taste of western business

  • North Korea coal

    North Korea network
    North Korea digging ever deeper to keep its economy afloat

February 2015

  • Hotel Okura in Tokyo

    Hotel Okura closure will rob presidents and secret agents of a Tokyo landmark

    Modernist hotel and architectural symbol of Japan’s 1960s return to world stage is to be demolished as part of city’s 2020 Olympics redevelopment

January 2015

  • South Korean tutors

    Fast earners: South Korea’s millionaire, celebrity schoolteachers

    Obsessive ‘cram school’ education culture has given some tutors pop-star profiles and wealthy lifestyles

August 2014

  • Antonio Inoki

    Japanese politician hopes wrestling can ease international tensions with North Korea

  • Shinzo Abe Brazi

    Shinzo Abe looks for allies outside Japan as popularity wanes at home

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