Pyongyang was once a city so dominated by Christianity that it was known as the " Jerusalem of the East." Today it stands as the capital of North Korea's oppressive dictatorship that has become one of the world's harshest persecutors of the Christian faith.

Editor and journalist Jonathan Cheng is the former Korea bureau chief and current China bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal - he is the author of Korean Messiah (2026), a detailed, decade-long investigation into the Christian roots that helped create North Korea's personality cult. At the center of this story is North Korea's founder, Kim II Sung, son of two fervent Christians and progenitor of an ideology known as Kimilsungism, an exercise in idolatry that has elevated him, and his successor son and grandson, lo, Christ-like status, from the humble manger where he was born lo the subway seat on which the venerated leader once placed his posterior, cordoned off as if it were a religious relic.

Author Q&A moderated by FCC Correspondent Governor Jennifer Jett.

Find out more about Korean Messiah

https://koreanmessiah.com/

Find out more about FCC Hong Kong Q&A events and lunch speakers:

https://www.fcchk.org/events/

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Morgan Davis, president of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Hong Kong, discusses the recent public statement on behalf of the FCC board and membership regarding the recent court victory for journalist Selina Cheng, related to her role as elected chair of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association.

Hear her discuss other big issues and stories confronting journalists working in Hong Kong, from the ongoing coverage of the aftermath of the Himalayas flood disaster to Hong Kong's evolving role as Asia's international centre of finance as well as the upcoming agenda for the FCC lunchtime speakers events, and the call for GenZ journalists to apply for the 2026/2027 Hollingworth Fellowship.

Info and application details for the Clare Hollingworth Fellowship

https://www.fcchk.org/fcc-clare-hollingworth-fellowship-2026-2027-applications-open/

Upcoming speaker events at the FCC Hong Kong:

https://www.fcchk.org/events/speaker-events/

Produced and presented by Jarrod Watt

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The 10th annual journalism conference held by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong brought together an eclectic, intergenerational group of journalists and people working in media creation to hear panel discussions and participate in workshops on everything from practical AI usage in newsrooms to personal branding on Instagram, alternate business models via Substack and dealing with moral injury.

FCC Hong Kong president Morgan Davis wraps this year's event and looks back on how it's changed over the past decade, while first-time attendees Samra Safalqr and Trista Kurniawan review what they saw and heard, and how this informs their experiences as GenZ journalists at the beginning of their careers.

Produced and presented by Jarrod Watt

Theme music composed and performed by Allen Youngblood

Catch up on previous episodes featuring FCC conference guest speakers:

* How journalists can survive and thrive in the AI age: Diana Wu David on career resilience

* Understanding moral injury in journalists: Dean Yates in conversation

* Pekingnology, Trump in Beijing, Substack versus newsroom journalism: Zichen Wang

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