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gtaylor@washingtontimes.com

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.
A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

Thae Yong-ho, right, former North Korean diplomat, who defected to South Korea in 2016 and a candidate of the main opposition United Future Party, reacts with a supporter after he was certain to secure victory in the parliamentary election in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 16, 2020. Thae on Thursday won a constituency seat in South Korea’s parliamentary elections, the first such achievement among tens of thousands of North Koreans who have fled their authoritarian, impoverished homeland. (Shin Jun-hee/Yonhap via AP)

Two North Korean defectors take seats in South Korean parliament

Two North Korean defectors will sit in South Korea's parliament for the first time ever after scoring a small victory for conservatives in the country's midterm elections this week, which were otherwise dominated by President Moon Jae-in and his left-leaning Democratic Party.

April 16, 2020
The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

U.S. optimistic on supply cut deal as oil prices sag

The Trump administration defended its efforts to lead world oil markets out of crisis Wednesday, even as the International Energy Agency warned the major production cut deal that President Trump helped to broker won't fully offset plummeting global prices and demand.

April 15, 2020
In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, file photo, flags of NATO alliance members flap in the wind outside NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Trump bid forcing NATO members pay up hit by coronavirus

The sudden economic crash sparked by the global COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into question one of President Trump's signature foreign policy goals: getting U.S. allies, particularly NATO members, to pay more for their own defense.

April 2, 2020
Residents walk through a subway station in Wuhan in central China's Wuhan province on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Skepticism about China’s reported coronavirus cases and deaths has swirled throughout the crisis, fueled by official efforts to quash bad news in the early days and a general distrust of the government. In any country, getting a complete picture of the infections amid the fog of war is virtually impossible. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese coronavirus numbers are inaccurate, U.S. intel says

U.S. intelligence says the number of coronavirus cases and deaths reported by China is inaccurate, with Beijing likely downplaying the size of the outbreak in the country to promote the appearance that authorities there have successfully managed the pandemic.

April 1, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, accompanied by State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, left, arrives to speak at a news conference, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Mike Pompeo outlines blueprint for democratic ‘transition’ in Venezuela

In a departure from past threats to drive Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro from power, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the new policy Tuesday for democratic transition to a new government, one like to have a prominent role for U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido.

March 31, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo smiles during a news conference, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Pompeo: ‘27,000 Americans’ repatriated amid global pandemic

A special State Department task force has helped more than 27,000 Americans return to the U.S. homeland from at least 50 countries in recent weeks as part of an ongoing effort to repatriate U.S. citizens amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

March 31, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, stands with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 23, 2020. Pompeo was in Kabul on an urgent visit Monday to try to move forward a U.S. peace deal signed last month with the Taliban, a trip that comes despite the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when world leaders and statesmen are curtailing official travel. (Afghan Presidential Palace via AP)

Wave of Taliban attacks raise peace deal concerns

The Trump administration's proposed Afghan peace deal in Afghanistan has been thrown further into question by a wave of Taliban attacks that have killed dozens of Afghan security forces while a prisoner exchange at the heart of the peace push remains stalled.

March 30, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, arrives at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 23, 2020. Pompeo was in Kabul on an urgent visit Monday to try to move forward a U.S. peace deal signed last month with the Taliban, a trip that comes despite the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when world leaders and statesmen are curtailing official travel. (Afghan Presidential Palace via AP)

Mike Pompeo intervention fails to end Afghanistan feud

U.S. announced it was slashing aid to the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan as a feud between its leaders threatens to undermine a delicate peace deal inked last month between the Trump administration and Taliban.

March 23, 2020