Rachel Minyoung Lee

Rachel Minyoung Lee is a senior fellow with the Korea Program and 38 North at the Stimson Center. She is also co-chair of the North Korea Economic Forum, which is part of the policy program at the George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies. From 2000 to 2019, Lee was a North Korea collection expert and analyst with the US government, where she covered North Korean domestic and foreign policy and a broad range of Korean Peninsula issues with implications for Pyongyang’s regime stability and regional security.