- Chico Harlan
- Reporter
Chico Harlan joined the foreign staff in 2010 after two years covering the domestic crisis of Washington Nationals baseball. A Syracuse University graduate, Harlan has worked as a staff writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the (Sydney) Daily-Telegraph.
Sending money home to North Korea
Defectors quickly learn complex choreography of channeling money to relatives in the Stalinist state.
In N. Korea, foreign currency’s role grows
The acceptance of this new model marks a tacit admission that the centrally planned economy is broken.
Oversize N. Korean hotel finally set to open
Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel has stood unfinished since 1987, a symbol of the North’s wider failures.
U.S. revises plans for Japan base
Washington’s inability to resolve its basing arrangements on Okinawa underscores the challenges for Obama’s strategic “pivot” toward the Pacific.
- U.S. hopes to sidestep Futenma impasse in moving Okinawa Marines to Guam
- Japan losing hope for its pricey ‘dream reactor’
- After earthquake, Japan can’t agree on the future of nuclear power
- For export-dependent Japan, a trade deficit
- Japan PM reshuffles cabinet in bid to win support for tax hike
- Japan agrees to reduce oil imports from Iran
- N. Korea reopens door to food-for-nukes deal with U.S.
- For Kim Jong Eun, a choreographed rise
