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Jonathan Cheng</span></span> <span
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Wall Street Journal</span></span>
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Address</span></em></span></strong></span>
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<div align="center"> <span
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Surprising Source of North Korea's
Enduring Power</strong></u></span> </div>
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</span><span
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<div align="center"> <u><span
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Security</span></span></u> </div>
<div align="center"> <span
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Peninsula Issues and US-Japan-Korean
Alliance <br>
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<div align="center"> <span
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2026 7:00 PM \u2013 8:15 PM EDT
Washington DC</u></span></strong></span>
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Friend: </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We
are pleased to share with you that
Jonathan Cheng will address the<em> </em></span><span
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Lux </em></span><span
style="font-size: large;">2026 with a
special emphasis on "The Surprising
Source of North Korea's Enduring
Power". </span> <br>
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style="font-size: large;">Jonathan is
the China Bureau Chief for <em>The Wall
Street Journal</em>, overseeing the
coverage of the world\u2019s second-largest
economy across a range of areas
including politics, economics, business,
technology, and society. He oversees a
team of more than two dozen
correspondents and researchers in
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei,
Singapore, and New York with
responsibility for the Chinese mainland
and Taiwan.</span></p>
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style="font-size: large;">Previously,
Jonathan was the Seoul Bureau Chief for
the <em>Journal</em>, running coverage
of the Korean peninsula, including North
Korea and South Korean politics and
business. He began his career as an
intern in the <em>Journal\u2019s</em> Hong
Kong bureau, and has also worked as a
markets reporter in the New York office.</span></p>
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style="font-size: large;">Jonathan
speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin
Chinese, French, and Korean. A native of
Toronto, Canada. He graduated from
Princeton University with a degree in
history. He lives in Beijing and has
traveled to North Korea twice.</span></p>
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