Thayer, who was injured by a land mine in 1989, had been ill with multiple ailments; in addition to the Cambodian conflict he covered the Myanmar border and North Korea.
Nate Thayer, the larger-than-life American freelance journalist who scored a massive scoop with his 1997 interview with Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, has died at 62, his family said Wednesday.