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Investigating the Daejeon M...

10.26.2021

Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, South Korean forces killed thousands of political prisoners in Daejeon to prevent them from joining the North Koreans that were rapidly advancing south. The massacre has featured prominently in ...

North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

10.26.2021 Investigating the Daejeon Massacre – NKNews Podcast Ep. 206 Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, South Korean forces killed thousands of political prisoners in Daejeon to prevent them from joining the North Koreans that were rapidly advancing south. The massacre has featured prominently in ...
10.19.2021 Repatriating US soldiers’ remains from North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 205 More than 7,600 Americans are still missing from the Korean War, according to the U.S. government. While North Korea returned some U.S. servicemembers’ remains following the first U.S.-DPRK summit in 2018, the repatriation process has ground to a halt since ...
10.12.2021 North Korean human rights abuses and reunification – NKNews Podcast Ep. 204 Nam Bada joins the podcast to talk about PSCORE (People for Successful Corean Reunification), how his organization helps defectors adjust to South Korean society, North Korean human rights abuses and the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Nam Bada is PSCORE’s ...
10.05.2021 A freewheeling, ‘Ask Me Anything’ special – NKNews Podcast Ep. 203 A full roster of NK News journalists and contributors joins the podcast this week for a special Ask Me Anything roundtable discussion in celebration of 200 episodes. With drinks in hand, the team responds to reader inquiries on a range ...
09.28.2021 The shared future of the two Koreas – NKNews Podcast Ep. 202 Scholars Mason Richey and David Tizzard join the podcast to discuss their new academic volume “The Future of the Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond,” which they co-edited along with Jagannath P. Panda. Our guests dive into the significance of ...
09.21.2021 North Korean nukes, sanctions and the United Nations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 201 Maiko Takeuchi joins the podcast to discuss her role in the United Nations (U.N.) Panel of Experts (PoE), which analyzes information for reports on North Korean sanctions implementation that are submitted to the U.N. Security Council (UNSC). She was a ...
09.14.2021 A 200th episode roundtable – NKNews Podcast Ep. 200 This week marks the release of the NK News podcast’s 200th episode. As though to celebrate the occasion, the DPRK has produced a number of newsworthy events in recent days, including a nighttime military parade and long-range cruise missile tests. ...
09.05.2021 A Canadian detained in China – NKNews Podcast Ep. 199 In Aug. 2014, Chinese state security personnel arrested the Canadian couple Kevin and Julia Garratt at a restaurant in the northeastern city of Dandong. Kevin, who had operated a coffee shop with his wife in the city since 2008, would ...
08.31.2021 Creativity and propaganda in North Korean music – NKNews Podcast Ep. 198 Music is an omnipresent part of North Korean life, from the eerie electronic ballad that plays every morning in Pyongyang to the propaganda tunes sung to accordion accompaniment at schools and workplaces. For this week’s episode, Professor Keith Howard joins ...
08.24.2021 Failing to foresee China’s entry into the Korean War – NKNews Podcast Ep. 197 Less than three months after the outbreak of the Korean War, U.N. and ROK troops made their now-famous amphibious landing at Incheon and began to push north. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, from his perch in Tokyo, ordered troops to continue ...
08.17.2021 Pyongyang or bust: DPRK tourism and the pandemic – NKNews Podcast Ep. 196 North Korea was the first country to stop all international travel following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Jan. 2020, and it may well be the last to reopen after the pandemic finally ends. The self-imposed lockdown has had huge consequences ...
08.10.2021 Telling North Korean resettlers’ stories with fashion – NKNews Podcast Ep. 195 Some 33,000 North Korean defectors have entered South Korea since 1998, but many report that they encounter discrimination in the South due to their backgrounds, as well as challenges stemming from culture and language differences between the two Koreas. On ...
08.03.2021 How Trump brought Korea to the brink of nuclear war – NKNews Podcast Ep. 194 Some observers have argued that North Korea followed a familiar pattern of raising tensions for the purpose of extracting concessions during the 2017 nuclear crisis, maintaining that there was never any serious danger of war breaking out on the Korean ...
07.27.2021 Front row at the Korean War armistice talks – NKNews Podcast Ep. 193 For this special National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day episode, Korean War veteran Richard Underwood joins the podcast to talk about experiences before and during the Korean War, including meeting Syngman Rhee, seeing a young Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang ...
07.21.2021 Working with the disabled in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 192 Humanitarian professional and author Carla Vitantonio joins the NK News podcast this week to discuss her four years in North Korea working with and for people with disabilities, the impact of international sanctions on humanitarian aid and leaving a diplomatic ...
07.14.2021 An interview with Stephen Biegun – NKNews Podcast Ep. 191 In an exclusive interview with NK News, former top U.S. envoy on North Korea Stephen Biegun provides his first-hand account of U.S. negotiations with a rotating lineup of North Korean interlocutors on the country’s denuclearization program and his reflections on ...
07.06.2021 Laughing along with North Korean comedy films – NKNews Podcast Ep. 190 Dr. Immanuel Kim joins the NK News podcast this week to talk about women and sexuality in DPRK literature, his translation of a popular North Korean novel and the striking sense of humor on display in the country’s short films. ...
06.29.2021 When Trump visited the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep. 189 In this week’s podcast, Lieutenant Colonel Sean Morrow talks about his unique stories and experiences during his time as commander of the United Nations Security Battalion from June 2018 to June 2020, and as the host of U.S. President Donald ...
06.18.2021 Crazy price fluctuations in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 188 In this roundtable podcast episode, the NK News team discusses the ever-changing and wild price fluctuations seen in North Korea in the last few weeks. Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined by Chad O’Carroll, founder of NK News and NK Pro; ...
06.15.2021 Documenting human rights abuses in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 187 Joining us on the podcast this week is Dr. Sandra Fahy to talk about her two books on North Korea — Marching through Suffering (2015) and Dying for Rights (2019) — as well as her current academic pursuits and the ...
06.08.2021 Teaching entrepreneurship in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 186 In this week’s episode, Ian Bennett joins the podcast to discuss the work of Choson Exchange. As program director, he runs entrepreneurship workshops in the Pyongyang and Pyongsong regions and in an online format. We discuss the history and criticisms ...
06.01.2021 Two years in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 185 Lindsey Miller (@LindseyMiller87) lived in Pyongyang from 2017 to 2019, during some of the most turbulent times on the Korean Peninsula in recent memory. She joins the NK News Podcast to talk about her personal experiences in North Korea, photography ...
05.25.2021 What happened at the Moon-Biden summit – NKNews Podcast Ep. 184 In this special post-summit roundtable podcast, the NK News team deep dive into the most recent ROK-US summit and the leaders’ joint statement. They pick apart what Presidents Biden and Moon discussed at their summit in Washington, D.C. last Friday. ...
05.18.2021 How the hardliners prevailed in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 183 Germany’s long-time ambassador to North Korea, Thomas Schäfer, joins the NK News podcast to discuss diplomatic life in North Korea, politics in Pyongyang, changes in attitudes and beliefs over time among there, Germany’s approach to scientific and cultural exchange, nuclear ...
05.11.2021 H. R. McMaster on North Korea and denuclearization – NKNews Podcast Ep. 182 Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster joins the NK News podcast to discuss why past efforts to denuclearize North Korea have failed, China’s role on the Korean Peninsula and the U.S.-ROK alliance. H.R. McMaster ...
05.04.2021 Biden’s North Korea policy review and what it means – NKNews Podcast Ep. 181 In this exclusive roundtable podcast, the NK News team discusses the Biden administration’s North Korea policy review, the latest from Pyongyang’s state media and Kim Jong Un’s crackdown on anti-socialist behavior among his country’s youth. Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined ...
04.27.2021 The US, sanctions and North Korean denuclearization – NKNews Podcast Ep. 180 In this week’s podcast episode, Anthony Ruggiero — a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former North Korea expert advising the White House — talks about the Biden administration’s upcoming DPRK policy review, his time ...
04.20.2021 North Korea and the ‘third world’ – NKNews Podcast Ep. 179 In this week’s podcast episode, Benjamin R. Young talks about his new book, “Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader.” He discusses North Korea’s foreign relations with the so-called “third world” during the Cold War and how its relations with these ...
04.13.2021 Coming to America – NKNews Podcast Ep. 178 North Korean defector Hyun-seung “Arthur” Lee discusses life in North Korea and why he got out, the lives of North Korea’s elite, Kim Jong Un’s “Youth League” and more. Lee’s YouTube channel can be found here. About the podcast: The ...
04.06.2021 Diabetes and healthcare in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 177 Dr. Cho Nam Han discusses North Korea’s health and medical care system, the surprisingly high rate of diabetes in the country, malnutrition, insulin production, urban and rural divides and ways for the world to help remedy disease rates and treatment. ...
03.30.2021 Ballistic missiles, alliances and extraditions – NKNews Podcast Ep. 176 In this week’s podcast episode, the NK News team breaks down North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launches, relations between Seoul and Washington and the first-ever extradition of a DPRK citizen to the United States. Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined by ...
03.23.2021 Understanding North Korea’s missiles and military – NKNews Podcast Ep. 175 In this week’s podcast episode, Joost Oliemans — an expert on the North Korean military — discusses his new book, “North Korea’s Armed Forces: On the Path of Songun.” Oliemans discusses the Cheonan ship sinking and why it wasn’t a ...
03.16.2021 US-ROK joint military exercises, explained – NKNews Podcast Ep. 174 Lt. Col. Steve Tharp, who is now retired, discusses the history of joint U.S.-ROK exercises, inter-operability and why he’s not buying North Korea’s claims that military drills are provocative. About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly ...
03.09.2021 Art, power and propaganda in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 173 Koen de Ceuster, a lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, explores the role of art in North Korean society, the Mansudae Art Studio and the art ‘business,’ and why it is not possible to separate propaganda from ...
03.02.2021 Rail trolleys, swim flippers and lockdown in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 172 Host Jacco Zwetsloot joins NK News‘s Chad O’Carroll, Jeongmin Kim, Min Chao Choy and Won-Gi Jung to discuss the surreal evacuation of Russian diplomats from North Korea by rail trolley, a flipper-wearing defector that swam across the inter-Korean border, the ...
02.23.2021 The private, Christian-led university in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 171 The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) is the only privately funded, Christianity-linked university in North Korea. PUST Chancellor Chan-Mo Park tells us how the school came to be, its reputation among North Koreans and how it navigates around ...
02.16.2021 The Calvinist, communist, royalist Dutch double agent – NKNews Podcast Ep. 170 Author Simon Kuper joins the NK News podcast to discuss his new book, “The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake.” Blake was the first SIS/MI6 agent on the Korean Peninsula that North ...
02.09.2021 Kim Jong Un’s water slide, missing wife and vaccines – NKNews Podcast Ep. 169 The NK News team discusses the first phone call between U.S. and South Korean Presidents Joe Biden and Moon Jae-in since the former’s election win, COVID-19, a school for the children of North Korean defectors in Seoul, Kim Jong Un’s ...
02.02.2021 North Korea-Malaysia relations: the past and future – NKNews Podcast Ep. 168 Dr. Hoo Chiew Ping discusses the history and political relations between Malaysia and North Korea, as well as broader ASEAN and Southeast Asia relations with the DPRK, rice museums and her new book coming out later this year. Topics include ...
01.26.2021 North and South Korea are not East and West Germany – NKNews Podcast Ep. 167 In this episode, Rüdiger Frank discusses parallels between East Germany and North Korea and why a direct comparison of the two divisions doesn’t always work. Frank also discusses engagement with the North Korean public, what Kim Jong Un can do ...
01.19.2021 Why North Korea is as dangerous as ever to South Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 166 South Korean National Assembly member and former DPRK diplomat Thae Yong-ho discusses North Korean nuclear weapons, inter-Korean relations and representing Gangnam as a lawmaker. Thae has appeared on the podcast before, and you can listen to that interview here. About ...
01.12.2021 The Eighth Party Congress and the future of North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 165 Following a year-long border closure and the reveal of a new ICBM, the NK News team takes a look at what the Eighth Party Congress means for North Korea’s future. This podcast episode features NK Pro analysts Andrei Lankov and ...
01.05.2021 ‘Lips and teeth’: The rise of DPRK-China relations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 164 Host Jacco Zwetsloot sits down with NK News staff members Chad O’Carroll, Min Chao Choy and Colin Zwirko to discuss North Korea-China trade, tourism, connecting infrastructure, sanctions, COVID-19 and what 2021 has in store for the two countries. Read Korea ...
12.29.2020 North Korea’s thriving art scene – NKNews Podcast Ep. 163 Professor, artist and author B.G. Muhn talks about the “North Koreanness” of contemporary art, what art tells us about the DPRK and artists’ social standing in North Korean society. He also discusses working directly with artists at North Korea’s famous ...
12.24.2020 Is the dream of Korean reunification dead? – NKNews Podcast Ep. 162 Is Korean reunification still a realistic or even a worthwhile goal? We explore both sides of the argument with NK News Director Andrei Lankov and Wang Son-taek, a research associate at Yeosijae (Future Consensus Institute). The two discuss why North ...
12.15.2020 Turning the Korean DMZ into an ecological peace zone – NKNews Podcast Ep. 161 In this podcast episode, the Hanns Seidel Foundation’s Bernhard Seliger joins the show to talk about the mission of the foundation, transforming the former East-West German border into a peaceful green space, North Korea’s approach to climate change action, defining ...
12.08.2020 Photographing the ‘Unpersons’ from North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 160 Photojournalist Tim Franco’s new book, “Unperson,” aims to show the world a new side of North Korean refugees and their incredible journey to freedom. NK News sat down with Franco and talked about the best way to take photos in ...
12.01.2020 North Korean human rights under Trump and Biden — NKNews Podcast Ep. 159 In this week’s episode of the NK News podcast, Ambassador Robert R. King sits down with host Jacco Zwetsloot to talk about his seven years of experience as U.S. special envoy for North Korea human rights and the future of ...
11.24.2020 Forced labor, COVID-19 and DPRK silence on US elections – NKNews Podcast Ep. 158 In this exclusive roundtable discussion, the NK News team talks about COVID-19 in North Korea, forced labor, Pyongyang’s reaction to the U.S. elections and more. About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by ...
11.17.2020 Statues and sanctions: North Korea in Congo – NKNews Podcast Ep. 157 A recent report from The Sentry focuses on North Korea’s illicit financing, shady business deals and U.N., U.S. and EU sanctions evasions. Principal authors Hilary Mossberg and John Dell’Osso join the NK News Podcast to talk sanctions and enforcement, cash-funneling ...

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North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

Investigating the Daejeon Massacre – NKNews Podcast Ep. 206

Repatriating US soldiers’ remains from North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 205

North Korean human rights abuses and reunification – NKNews Podcast Ep. 204

A freewheeling, ‘Ask Me Anything’ special – NKNews Podcast Ep. 203

The shared future of the two Koreas – NKNews Podcast Ep. 202

North Korean nukes, sanctions and the United Nations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 201

A 200th episode roundtable – NKNews Podcast Ep. 200

A Canadian detained in China – NKNews Podcast Ep. 199

Creativity and propaganda in North Korean music – NKNews Podcast Ep. 198

Failing to foresee China’s entry into the Korean War – NKNews Podcast Ep. 197

Pyongyang or bust: DPRK tourism and the pandemic – NKNews Podcast Ep. 196

Telling North Korean resettlers’ stories with fashion – NKNews Podcast Ep. 195

How Trump brought Korea to the brink of nuclear war – NKNews Podcast Ep. 194

Front row at the Korean War armistice talks – NKNews Podcast Ep. 193

Working with the disabled in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 192

An interview with Stephen Biegun – NKNews Podcast Ep. 191

Laughing along with North Korean comedy films – NKNews Podcast Ep. 190

When Trump visited the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep. 189

Crazy price fluctuations in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 188

Documenting human rights abuses in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 187

Teaching entrepreneurship in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 186

Two years in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 185

What happened at the Moon-Biden summit – NKNews Podcast Ep. 184

How the hardliners prevailed in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 183

H. R. McMaster on North Korea and denuclearization – NKNews Podcast Ep. 182

Biden’s North Korea policy review and what it means – NKNews Podcast Ep. 181

The US, sanctions and North Korean denuclearization – NKNews Podcast Ep. 180

North Korea and the ‘third world’ – NKNews Podcast Ep. 179

Coming to America – NKNews Podcast Ep. 178

Diabetes and healthcare in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 177

Ballistic missiles, alliances and extraditions – NKNews Podcast Ep. 176

Understanding North Korea’s missiles and military – NKNews Podcast Ep. 175

US-ROK joint military exercises, explained – NKNews Podcast Ep. 174

Art, power and propaganda in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 173

Rail trolleys, swim flippers and lockdown in Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep. 172

The private, Christian-led university in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 171

The Calvinist, communist, royalist Dutch double agent – NKNews Podcast Ep. 170

Kim Jong Un’s water slide, missing wife and vaccines – NKNews Podcast Ep. 169

North Korea-Malaysia relations: the past and future – NKNews Podcast Ep. 168

North and South Korea are not East and West Germany – NKNews Podcast Ep. 167

Why North Korea is as dangerous as ever to South Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 166

The Eighth Party Congress and the future of North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 165

‘Lips and teeth’: The rise of DPRK-China relations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 164

North Korea’s thriving art scene – NKNews Podcast Ep. 163

Is the dream of Korean reunification dead? – NKNews Podcast Ep. 162

Turning the Korean DMZ into an ecological peace zone – NKNews Podcast Ep. 161

Photographing the ‘Unpersons’ from North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 160

North Korean human rights under Trump and Biden — NKNews Podcast Ep. 159

Forced labor, COVID-19 and DPRK silence on US elections – NKNews Podcast Ep. 158

Statues and sanctions: North Korea in Congo – NKNews Podcast Ep. 157

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