Will Ripley Biography

Will Ripley is a CNN correspondent located in Tokyo who has won awards for his work. Ripley, a journalist with more than 15 years of expertise, is responsible for reporting on important stories from across the globe. Ripley has traveled extensively in Japan, and she was one of the first remote columnists to interview Tokyo's first female senator and first female Democratic Party founder. He has obtained significant breaking news regarding the massive floods that hit Joso, the beheading of two Japanese ISIS prisoners, and the dangerous Mt. Ontake emission. He has also written inside-out accounts of the Fukushima disaster's effects on Japanese innovation and technology. Ripley is one of a very small number of Western authors that have returned to North Korea. Following the nuclear test in January, he was the only American to report in real-time from Pyongyang. He revealed the stories of American prisoners Otto Warmbier and Kim Dong Chul. He was one of many columnists who were given exclusive access to the rare Workers' Party Congress under the leadership of North Korean pioneer Kim Jong Un. In addition, Ripley was the first outside journalist given access to Pyongyang's new satellite control center months before a satellite launch in February 2016 that the United States, South Korea, and Japan believed to be a test of long-extend ballistic rocket technology.

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