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Kim Jong-Un's Surprising Rise to Power: Washington Post Journalist Anna Fifield

Kim Jong-Un's Surprising Rise to Power: Washington Post Journalist Anna Fifield

FromIntelligence Matters


Kim Jong-Un's Surprising Rise to Power: Washington Post Journalist Anna Fifield

FromIntelligence Matters

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Jun 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Washington Post journalist and Beijing bureau chief Anna Fifield about her new book, "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong-Un." Morell and Fifield discuss her years of reporting from inside Pyongyang and her conversations with the North Korean leader's elusive inner circle. She describes how she obtained first-hand accounts of Kim's childhood and family relationships. Fifield also details some of Kim's early, formative experiences and the sometimes brutal ways he managed to consolidate and maintain power.
Released:
Jun 18, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In Intelligence Matters, former acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell, speaks with top leaders of the U.S. intelligence community as they reflect on their life, career and the critical roles they play in shaping national security policies. (154991) As a central figure in the most significant U.S. counter-terror efforts of the past two decades and a former CIA intelligence analyst, Morell is uniquely skilled at taking industry leading knowledge to make connections that provide deep insight into complex security events – helping decode intelligence officials’ key priorities and providing perspectives on how to achieve national security objectives. Morell is the author of “The Great War of Our Time” and a vivid account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life in secrets, and a war in the shadows.