Dr. Stephen Linton (born 1950) is a

humanitarian Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional ...

and an expert on the

Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...

( North Korea). He has visited North Korea over 80 times since 1979 and twice met the country's late president,

Kim Il Sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

, as an advisor and translator to the Rev. Billy Graham. He is also the founder and chairman of the

Eugene Bell Foundation The Eugene Bell Foundation is a U.S.-based foundation that provides medical humanitarian assistance to rural North Korea. Focusing on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the foundation currently sponsors 12 treatment centers, drawing patients fr ...

, which provides medical humanitarian assistance to rural North Korea. Focusing on multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, the foundation currently sponsors 12 medical centers serving patients in half of the country. Currently an affiliated scholar at Harvard University's Korea Institute, Linton was raised in a rural area of Jeollanam-do, South Korea, as the son of a prominent family of missionaries to Korea. His father, Hugh Linton, established over 200 churches in rural Korea and his mother, Betty Linton, served 40 years as director of the Soonchun Christian Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Center. His brother, John Alderman Linton, is the director of International Healthcare Center of Yonsei University in Seoul.

Education

*BA (philosophy), Yonsei University, Westminster Theological Seminary, *MA Columbia University, *PhD Columbia University

External links

Eugene Bell Foundation

Expert: North Korean Regime Study
''The Harvard Crimson'' October 31, 2006
America's Korea Policy Needs an Overhaul
''Yale Global 2004''
Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 5, 200

testimony before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, January 24, 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Linton, Stephen Winn 1950 births Harvard University staff Living people American expatriates in South Korea People from South Jeolla Province