TRANSCRIPT: Interview with ‘Korean Messiah’ author Jonathan Cheng

TRANSCRIPT: Interview with ‘Korean Messiah’ author Jonathan Cheng

Author of the forthcoming book talks about Kim Il-Sung’s Christian roots, and what he uncovered from rare archives and on-the-ground visits to the world’s most isolated and least understood country

By: Majid Maqbool

Jonathan Cheng, the Wall Street Journal’s China bureau chief and former Korea bureau chief, graduated from Princeton University with a history degree and rose through WSJ’s ranks from Hong Kong intern to leading coverage of the Korean Peninsula. In between, he visited North Korea twice, in 2013 and 2017. His forthcoming book, Korean Me…

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