North Korea; he warns that news about North Korea tends to be sensationalized, and care should be taken in judging its veracity.There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better. Some of it is probably true – but a great deal of it is probably not...the normal standards of journalism are thrown out of the window because the attitude is: 'It's North Korea – no one knows what's going on in there.' In April 2020 Kim Jong Un disappeared from public view, and there were many reports of his death or incapacitance. Delury warned that it's very hard to know the truth in this type of situation. "Most of the time we get it wrong." See also Major themes of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century Modern China, the creation of a global power References Living people American sinologists Yale College alumni American historians Year of birth missing (living people) American expatriate academics American expatriates in South Korea Academic staff of Peking University Brown University faculty Columbia University faculty Academic staff of Yonsei University American male journalists People from Seoul Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni