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The U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University’s School of Law will host a discussion with Swiss aid worker Kathi Zellweger and former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy on delivering humanitarian aid in North Korea. The Overseas Press Club of America is a co-sponsor of the event.

Zellweger, one of the few Westerners to have lived in North Korea, visited the country 75 times over three decades and worked with local medical experts, government officials and humanitarian organizations to provide assistance to thousands of people, many of them children. She will discuss her experiences delivering humanitarian aid in a country where foreign aid workers have often faced significant restrictions.

She will be joined by Chinoy, a former CNN foreign correspondent who reported extensively from Asia and visited North Korea 17 times. Together, Zellweger and Chinoy wrote “Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea”.

Kathi Zellweger has more than 30 years of experience in humanitarian work across Hong Kong, China and North Korea. She served as North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation from 2006 to 2011 and later founded KorAid Limited, an NGO serving children in institutions and people with disabilities in North Korea. She is affiliated with Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and is a non-resident fellow at the European Center for North Korean Studies at the University of Vienna.

Mike Chinoy spent 24 years as a foreign correspondent for CNN, serving as the network’s first bureau chief in Beijing, bureau chief in Hong Kong and senior Asia correspondent. His reporting has received Emmy, DuPont, Peabody and ACE awards. He is a non-resident scholar at the University of California, San Diego’s 21st Century China Center.

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