2022

The New York Times, The Immensity of Seoul’s Sadness

2020

*The New Yorker, Follow the Leader

2018
*The New Republic, The Dealmaker

*The New Yorker, Covering the North Korea Summit While Trapped in a Warehouse in Singapore

2017

* The New Yorker, An Extraordinary Statement from a North Korean Prince

* New York Times, North Korea’s Lipstick Diplomacy 

* New York Magazine, Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues (Longread pick “Best Investigative Writing 2017”)

* Lapham’s Quarterly, The Land of Darkness (*Best America Essays series 2018)

* Washington Post, op ed, Tourism to North Korea isn’t about engagement. It’s torture porn

* The Guardian, The long read, essay, My two messed-up countries: an immigrant’s dilemma

*Foreign Policy, op ed, “South Korea Is More Worried About Donald Trump Than Kim Jong Un

*Washington Post, op ed, Is Christian evangelicals’ money helping to prop up North Korea’s regime?

* The Atlantic, The Meaning of Kim Jong Nam’s Murder

2016

*Foreign Policy, Korean Reporters Got Fired, Got Active, Got President

*Slate, Republic of Disappointment

*The New Republic, What happened in Brisbane

*The New Republic, The Reluctant Memoirist (Must Read Pick for The Atlantic, Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy, Bookforum, New York Magazine, Jezebel, New York Times Now, Publisher’s Weekly, Longform.org, Longreads.com, Buzzfeed, Chicago Review Press, Rumpus, Vela Magazine, NPR’s Morning Edition, etc.)

*The New Republic, Across the Bridge

*The New Republic, Mr. Rubio’s Neighborhood

*The New Republic, Is It Time to Intervene North Korea?