“North Korea Confidential gives us a deeply informed close-up…” – New York Times“…[North Korea Confidential] uses extensive interviews with recent defectors and people still in the country to build a rich picture of daily life there.” – Financial Times“…[Tudor and Pearson] make judicious use of parallels between the divided Koreas. The book endows North Koreans with individuality and complexity, without shying from the brutal or bizarre elements of North Korea.” – Global Asia

Daniel Tudor is from Manchester, England, and graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. He has lived in Seoul, South Korea, for many years, and served as The Economist’s Korea Correspondent from 2010 to 2013. His first book, Korea: The Impossible Country received high praise and has also been translated into Korean, Chinese, Polish, and Thai. He is a regular columnist for a Korean newspaper, the Joongang Ilbo, and has commented on Korea-related topics many times for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and others. He is also co-founder of The Booth, a chain of craft beer pubs.

James Pearson is a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Seoul, where he covers politics and general news in North and South Korea. He holds a BA (hons) in Chinese and Korean from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a Master’s of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge.

Andray Abrahamian is the 2018-19 Korea Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He is a member of the U.S. National Committee on North Korea as well as an Adjunct Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. He has held lecturing positions at Yangon University and Ulsan University. His first book, North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths was published in 2018.