Mika Mäkeläinen (born 30 May 1965) is a Finnish foreign news journalist and non-fiction writer, who has served as both the United States and Asia

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for the Finnish

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Yle Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...

. Mäkeläinen was stationed in Washington, D.C., between 2006 and 2009 and in Beijing between 2015 and 2017. Mäkeläinen is a four-time recipient of the best report of the year award (in different categories) in the CNN World Report competition. He holds a master's degree in theology from the

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, and was accepted into the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at

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in 2003. Mäkeläinen has received international attention for his coverage of

North 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 Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

. In 2016, he was the only

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journalist invited to cover the

7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea The 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of North Korea, was held on 6–9 May 2016. Background The 7th Congress was the first Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea held since the 6th Congress of the Worke ...

. His most notable book, ''Kimlandia: silminnäkijänä Pohjois-Korean kulisseissa'', is based on his experiences in the country. In 2019, a panel of judges selected ''Kimlandia'' as the best nonfiction book at the TIETOKIRJA.FI event in Helsinki. Most recently, Mäkeläinen has participated in the creation of a

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experience depicting the nuclear testing at Enewetak Atoll. He was a speaker at the 2019

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Conference.

Bibliography

*. Church Research Institute, 1993. series C, 0781-8572; no. 49. *. Tietoteos, 1997. . *. Kirjapaja, 2010. . *. Co-written with Jim Solatie. Talentum, 2013. . *. Atena, 2019. .

References

External links

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Mika Mäkeläinen on the Yle website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Makelainen, Mika 1965 births Living people Finnish reporters and correspondents Finnish non-fiction writers Finnish expatriates in China Finnish expatriates in the United States