Anna Fifield, Editor of The Dominion Post (New Zealand), was the Washington Post’s Tokyo bureau chief (2014–2018) and later the Post’s Beijing bureau, where she focused on Japan, North Korea and South Korea. She also worked for thirteen years as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. From 2009 to 2013 she was the U.S. political correspondent in Washington, D.C., and before that she was the Middle East correspondent in Beirut and Tehran, and the Korea correspondent in Seoul. He has reported from more than twenty countries, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and North Korea, and has covered major events such as North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006, the 2009 Iranian presidential election, and the 2012 U.S. presidential election. In 2017, he interviewed more than twenty-five recent North Korean escapees, producing a major report that was published in both English and Korean. He also secured the only interview with Kim Jong Un’s aunt, who had lived in the United States since 1998. By interviewing numerous people who have known Kim Jong Un, Fifield has sought to show through his reporting that he is not a cartoon villain or a joke, but a ruthless dictator who operates strategically, even if that strategy means killing his own uncle and half-brother to stay in power.