Shubert started her career with CNN as a producer in Jakarta , Indonesia , where she covered the fall of Indonesia ’s President Suharto in 1998 , East Timor ’s transition to independence in 1999 . Shubert joined CNN as a reporter for CNN 's Jakarta bureau , and was appointed to the position of Tokyo correspondent in 2004 . During her time reporting from Tokyo , Shubert covered a number of major news stories in Japan , including the controversial deployment of Japan 's Self-Defense Forces , the Japanese hostage situation in Iraq and the verdict of Shoko Asahara ( the mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo ) . In the summer of 2005 , Shubert reported live from Hiroshima on the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing for CNN 's special '' Remembering Hiroshima '' . She also reported on the nuclear tensions in the Korean Peninsula in 2006 , after North Korea tested nuclear weapons
nuclear tensions
2006 North Korean nuclear test
Atika Shubert