In this week’s podcast interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with The Washington Post’s Anna Fifield about her new book, “The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un,” which aims to peel back the layers of secrecy around North Korea’s young dictator.

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