Juliette Morillot (born 1959) is a French journalist. She is the author of several books about
North Korea
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.
Early life
Morillot was born in 1959 in
Bar-le-Duc
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The lower, more modern and busier part of the town extends along a narrow valley, ...
, France.
Her parents were English teachers.
Morillot graduated from the
École du Louvre, where she earned a master's degree in
museology
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Terminology
The w ...
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She learned Czech, Korean, Japanese and Russian at the
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Career
Morillot taught at the
University of Seoul in 1988.
She has taught at the
École de guerre
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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.
Morillot was a contributing writer to ''
Jeune Afrique
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'' from 2005 to 2015.
She became the editor of ''
La Revue
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'' in 2012,
followed by ''
Asialyst''.
Morillot is the author of several books. She was awarded the ''Prix du meilleur livre de géopolitique 2018'' from the Grenoble Geopolitics Festival for ''La Corée du Nord en 100 questions'' in 2018.
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References
1959 births
Living people
People from Bar-le-Duc
French women journalists
20th-century French journalists
21st-century French journalists
20th-century French women
21st-century French women
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