North Korea News Podcast by NK News

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Why diplomacy is still the ...

10.30.2020

Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry joins the NK News Podcast to talk about his time in the Bill Clinton administration, the problems with Bush’s approach to North Korea and why diplomacy is still the best way to solve ...

North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

10.30.2020 Why diplomacy is still the way to go with North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 154 Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry joins the NK News Podcast to talk about his time in the Bill Clinton administration, the problems with Bush’s approach to North Korea and why diplomacy is still the best way to solve ...
10.27.2020 How overseas labor improves ordinary North Korean lives – NKNews Podcast Ep. 153 North Korean workers abroad have been a major controversy and a key target of international sanctions. Often, these individuals are working long hours in poor conditions and with low pay — many liken them to modern-day slave laborers. But as ...
10.23.2020 US intelligence and strategy on North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 152 What exactly is U.S. intelligence and how does America use it to craft strategies to confront or engage North Korea? Former National Intelligence Officer Markus Garlauskas joins the show to talk about the limits and strengths of intelligence, estimative analysis, ...
10.20.2020 Interview with ‘The Mole’ director Mads Brügger — NKNews Podcast Ep.151 In 2016, a Danish documentary film director teamed up with two actors who would pretend to be interested in buying weapons and drug components from North Korea. For the next three years, the undercover actors flew around the world to ...
10.13.2020 Missiles galore: North Korea’s post-parade prognosis — NKNews Podcast Ep.150 Everything you wanted to know about North Korea’s military parade, with NK News reporters Jeongmin Kim, Colin Zwirko and Min Chao Choy. Topics include the country’s new missiles, TELs, Kim Jong Un’s speech and a special new white horse unit. ...
10.06.2020 North Korea’s rapidly evolving tech scene — NKNews Podcast Ep.149 North Korea is the most isolated nation in the world, and the regime expends large resources to keep it that way by impeding information flows, jamming signals and creating proprietary technology and network access incompatible everywhere else. But the North ...
09.29.2020 A mysterious death at the inter-Korean maritime border – NKNews Podcast Ep.148 In this exclusive roundtable discussion, the NK News team breaks down the latest updates on the death of a 47-year-old South Korean government worker near the Northern Limit Line. The team also discusses coffee culture in North Korea, a factory ...
09.22.2020 Teaching entrepreneurship in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.147 In this week’s podcast episode, Andray Abrahamian talks about his new book, “Being in North Korea.” Abrahamian discusses North Korean scholarship and daily life, as well as diversity and conflict of thought in Pyongyang, entrepreneurship, women’s rights, economic reform and ...
09.15.2020 Almost-live from the White House with Chanel Rion – NKNews Podcast Ep.146 This week, journalist Chanel Rion joins the NK News Podcast to talk about U.S.-DPRK relations, why inter-Korean relations are particularly important to her, the legacy and future of Donald Trump’s summit diplomacy with Kim Jong Un and more. A video ...
09.08.2020 COVID-19 and major upcoming events in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.145 This week’s podcast episode discusses what COVID-19 has and hasn’t impacted in North Korea, as well as inter-Korean relations and major DPRK anniversary events. Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined by Korea Risk Group CEO Chad O’Carroll and NK News reporters ...
09.01.2020 The case for South Korean engagement with the North – NKNews Podcast Ep.144 In the second half of a two-part interview with NK News (part one can be found here), Pastor Cho Hun Jung discusses prospects for unification, family reunions and the politicization of what many see as benign inter-Korean issues. He also ...
08.26.2020 A pastor weighs in on bible and balloon launches – NKNews Podcast Ep.143 In this two-part interview, Pastor Cho Hun Jung discusses why he thinks bibles and leaflet launches should be stopped, the legacy of the Korean War and the evolution of inter-Korean diplomacy from the South’s military dictatorships to democracy. Pastor Cho ...
08.18.2020 The best and the worst of reporting on North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.142 Former NK News managing editor Oliver Hotham discusses his years of reporting on North Korea, the existence of personality cults and Tintin, and offers advice for getting started in the news industry. Article mentioned in the show: Being gay in ...
08.11.2020 Meeting Kim Il Sung and years of reporting on Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.141 Veteran journalist Michael Breen reflects on his career reporting on the Korean peninsula, his time as a foreign correspondent and his multiple visits to North Korea. Breen has worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Times and the Washington ...
08.04.2020 Talking Rastafarianism with North Koreans – NKNews Podcast Ep.140 Poet, writer and actor Benjamin Zephaniah joins the NK News podcast to talk about his visits to North Korea. This includes breaking vegan bread with a North Korean chef, reading and teaching poetry with university students in Pyongyang, Rastafarianism and ...
07.28.2020 Sending Bibles to North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.139 Humanitarian balloon launches into North Korea have become a divisive issue in recent months. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, harshly condemned leafleting balloon launches while Seoul moved to stop them in hopes of returning to ...
07.21.2020 The six South Koreans still held in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.138 Few in South Korea — much less abroad — know that six of their fellow citizens are currently imprisoned in North Korea. Family members seldom speak publicly and the government answers questions only when asked. While Donald Trump was energized ...
07.14.2020 Christianity in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.137 Christianity has an odd history in North Korea. Pyongyang was once known as the “Jerusalem of the East” and North Korea’s founding father Kim Il Sung himself grew up steeped in Christian traditions. Though North Korea’s well-known human rights abuses ...
07.07.2020 The English-language voice of North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.136 Paul White is the editor of DPRK Business Monthly who was previously English-language narrator at Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum. He joined the NK News Podcast to discuss his decades of experience in East Asia, editing North Korean ...
06.29.2020 Back from the inter-Korean breakdown brink? – NKNews Podcast Ep.135 We may be witnessing a step back from the brink of serious provocations on the Korean peninsula, following an abrupt shift in North Korea’s official rhetoric last week. But is demolishing the liaison office as far as Pyongyang will go, ...
06.23.2020 A journey across the globe to remember the Korean War – NKNews Podcast Ep.134 This week marks 70 years since the start of the Korean War, a truly international conflict with dozens of countries involved. In an effort to honor and remember the sacrifices of those that fought on both sides of “The Forgotten ...
06.14.2020 Inter-Korean tensions: Live from Yeonpyeong-do – NKNews Podcast Ep.133 Tensions are rising between the two Koreas as increasingly vicious rhetoric from Pyongyang suggests serious provocations could be imminent. Live from the ferry from Yeongpyeong Island right on the edge of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the NK News team ...
06.09.2020 Depictions of North Korea in South Korean pop culture – NKNews Podcast Ep.132 Tropes and plot devices used in South Korean movies, television shows, and music depicting North Korea and interactions with North Koreans have changed over time, and often reflect attitudes and relations of a given era. Stephen Epstein, Director of Asian ...
06.02.2020 Bringing American pro wrestling to North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.131 “Collision in Korea” set a new world record for the largest pro wrestling attendance ever that still stands today — and it happened in the middle of Pyongyang in 1995. Former head of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Eric Bischoff joins ...
05.26.2020 The U.S.-ROK alliance in the “fire and fury” era – NKNews Podcast Ep.130 The U.S.-ROK alliance has served as the linchpin for regional security for over 70 years and continues to be among the most important and consequential institutions and partnerships in Asia. General Vincent Brooks was the Commander of U.S. Forces Korea ...
05.19.2020 The feasibility of détente between the U.S. and the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.129 Author John Feffer joins the NK News Podcast to discuss North Korea, its relations with the United States, and his and others’ personal experiences traveling to the DPRK. John speaks of relationships of trust between Washington and Pyongyang and explores ...
05.12.2020 Photographing North Korea’s 1989 World Festival – NKNews Podcast Ep.128 Thomas Billhardt is among the most acclaimed German photographers, gaining a reputation for capturing the human and political experience in North Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Thomas joins the NK News Podcast to talk about his impressions of North ...
05.05.2020 “Kim Il Sung’s Children” – NKNews Podcast Ep.127 Some 100,000 children were orphaned during the Korean War (1950-53). North Korea decided to send many on their side of the peninsula to Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe for so-called “commissioned education.” South Korean filmmaker Young Kim spent a decade and a ...
04.28.2020 Where in the world is Kim Jong Un? – NKNews Podcast Ep.126 Is Kim Jong Un alive? Where is he? Why hasn’t he been seen in weeks? Who’s next in the line of succession? Amid a storm of global speculation, we gathered a roundtable discussion with host Jacco Zwetsloot, NK News CEO ...
04.23.2020 Free Michael Spavor – NKNews Podcast Ep.125 It’s been 500 days since our friend Michael Spavor — and his fellow Canadian Michael Kovrig — were taken into custody by the Chinese government, very likely as a result of “hostage diplomacy” with Canada. This week, Jacco is joined ...
04.21.2020 Hotels of Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep.124 James Scullin talks about his new book, “Hotels of Pyongyang,” which reveals never-before-seen photos of North Korean architecture and aesthetic. James Scullin is a part-time tour leader for Juche Travel Services, a British-North Korean travel company, and China business consultant ...
04.14.2020 Exploring the 2019 raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy – NKNews Podcast Ep.123 Free Joseon is the mysterious group behind the daring 2019 raid of North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, and has orchestrated defections of at least one North Korean diplomat overseas. Alastair Gale co-authored what is perhaps the most extensive exposé of ...
04.07.2020 North Korea, a month in review – NKNews Podcast Ep.122 The Month in Review is a regular product by NK News‘s parent company the Korea Risk Group, summarizing the most important trends and news in North Korea and forecasting events that will likely grab headlines in the coming weeks. Subscribers ...
03.31.2020 Managing expectations with North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.121 The Quincy Institute was launched in Washington DC last year with funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and the Koch Foundation, and aims to work toward ending “endless war” and forging a more modest, non-interventionist path for U.S. foreign ...
03.24.2020 North Korean defectors and social entrepreneurship – NKNews Podcast Ep.120 North Koreans that escape and resettle in the South release a myriad of challenges, perhaps none more daunting than acclimating to a 21st century global economy. Connecting these people with the right mentors and resources is essential. That’s where today’s ...
03.17.2020 North Korea’s response to COVID-19 – NKNews Podcast Ep.119 North Korea was one of the first to completely block all travel to and from China amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, and although state media has been reticent to reveal the extent to which the novel coronavirus is ...
03.10.2020 North Korea: the view from the European Parliament – NKNews Podcast Ep.118 Continuing our European Union theme from last week’s episode, the NKNews Podcast sits down with Lukas Mandl, the Chair of the EU’s Delegation for relations with the Korean peninsula, to talk about the institution’s role on the Korean peninsula and ...
03.03.2020 A primer on the European Union’s North Korea sanctions – NKNews Podcast Ep.117 The European Union is invested in solving the North Korea nuclear issue as well as improving the human rights situation. Virginie Battu-Henriksson, spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy from the EU’s European Commission, discusses the role that sanctions are ...
02.25.2020 From Washington DC with love – NKNews Podcast Ep.116 In this interview with NK News’s Washington DC correspondent, Jacob Fromer, we learn about the current discourse regarding North Korea, how U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach has been received, and how a new president, potentially elected this year, may change ...
02.18.2020 “The Two Koreas” and the United States – NKNews Podcast Ep.115 “The Two Koreas” is among the most well-known and widely read books on inter-Korean relations, North Korea’s nuclear program, and the U.S.’s interactions with and policy directed at North Korea. Robert Carlin, co-author of the third edition of the book, ...
02.11.2020 It’s the security guarantees, stupid – NKNews Podcast Ep.114 Retired Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard, Jr., is the first Korean War veteran to appear on the NK News podcast. On today’s episode, he reminisces about his time in Korea in 1952 and 1953. He also talks about his involvement ...
02.03.2020 Covering North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.113 North Korea has long been known as one of the most challenging countries for foreign journalists to report on, given the lack of access and general information black hole that the DPRK can represent. So how best to navigate this ...
01.28.2020 The rocky road to normalizing North Korea-U.S. relations – NKNews Podcast Ep.112 North Korea cares deeply about its bilateral relations with the United States, perhaps even more so than its stated priority of unifying the Korean peninsula. This sequencing is not always the most well-executed or demonstrated, but it helps explain Pyongyang’s ...
01.21.2020 Keeping the peace at the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep.111 The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) plays a unique role on the Korean peninsula, one unlike in any other part of the world, and is an institution that serves as a reminder that the Korean War never officially ended. Swiss ...
01.14.2020 Negotiating with a nuclear-armed North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.110 It’s been nearly fourteen years since North Korea conducted its first successful nuclear test, and neither South Korea, the U.S., nor the international community appears anywhere close to convincing the Kim Jong Un regime to give up its nuclear weapons. ...
01.03.2020 Kim Jong Un’s plenum speech and a look ahead to 2020 – NKNews Podcast Ep.109 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un bucked recent tradition this week by releasing a major speech at the conclusion of the Party plenum on New Year's Day instead of making the anticipated annual New Year Address. In the speech, Kim ...
12.31.2019 Japan’s difficult relationship with the Korean peninsula – NKNews Podcast Ep.108 Japan and North Korea have a complicated relationship, and Tokyo’s approach to solving the nuclear and other issues diverges from the current Seoul government in many ways. Tokyo and Seoul’s own bilateral discord of late has amplified those differences and ...
12.24.2019 Unfinished business in North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 3 A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today. Listen to part ...
12.24.2019 How one American snuck into North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 2 A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today. Listen to part ...
12.24.2019 An American prisoner in North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 1 A U.S. citizen who says he was arrested and subsequently released from North Korea in 2015 has told his story for the first time, in a series of exclusive interviews with the NK News podcast published today. Listen to part ...

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North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

Why diplomacy is still the way to go with North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 154

How overseas labor improves ordinary North Korean lives – NKNews Podcast Ep. 153

US intelligence and strategy on North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep. 152

Interview with ‘The Mole’ director Mads Brügger — NKNews Podcast Ep.151

Missiles galore: North Korea’s post-parade prognosis — NKNews Podcast Ep.150

North Korea’s rapidly evolving tech scene — NKNews Podcast Ep.149

A mysterious death at the inter-Korean maritime border – NKNews Podcast Ep.148

Teaching entrepreneurship in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.147

Almost-live from the White House with Chanel Rion – NKNews Podcast Ep.146

COVID-19 and major upcoming events in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.145

The case for South Korean engagement with the North – NKNews Podcast Ep.144

A pastor weighs in on bible and balloon launches – NKNews Podcast Ep.143

The best and the worst of reporting on North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.142

Meeting Kim Il Sung and years of reporting on Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.141

Talking Rastafarianism with North Koreans – NKNews Podcast Ep.140

Sending Bibles to North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.139

The six South Koreans still held in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.138

Christianity in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.137

The English-language voice of North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.136

Back from the inter-Korean breakdown brink? – NKNews Podcast Ep.135

A journey across the globe to remember the Korean War – NKNews Podcast Ep.134

Inter-Korean tensions: Live from Yeonpyeong-do – NKNews Podcast Ep.133

Depictions of North Korea in South Korean pop culture – NKNews Podcast Ep.132

Bringing American pro wrestling to North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.131

The U.S.-ROK alliance in the “fire and fury” era – NKNews Podcast Ep.130

The feasibility of détente between the U.S. and the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.129

Photographing North Korea’s 1989 World Festival – NKNews Podcast Ep.128

“Kim Il Sung’s Children” – NKNews Podcast Ep.127

Where in the world is Kim Jong Un? – NKNews Podcast Ep.126

Free Michael Spavor – NKNews Podcast Ep.125

Hotels of Pyongyang – NKNews Podcast Ep.124

Exploring the 2019 raid on North Korea’s Madrid embassy – NKNews Podcast Ep.123

North Korea, a month in review – NKNews Podcast Ep.122

Managing expectations with North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.121

North Korean defectors and social entrepreneurship – NKNews Podcast Ep.120

North Korea’s response to COVID-19 – NKNews Podcast Ep.119

North Korea: the view from the European Parliament – NKNews Podcast Ep.118

A primer on the European Union’s North Korea sanctions – NKNews Podcast Ep.117

From Washington DC with love – NKNews Podcast Ep.116

“The Two Koreas” and the United States – NKNews Podcast Ep.115

It’s the security guarantees, stupid – NKNews Podcast Ep.114

Covering North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.113

The rocky road to normalizing North Korea-U.S. relations – NKNews Podcast Ep.112

Keeping the peace at the DMZ – NKNews Podcast Ep.111

Negotiating with a nuclear-armed North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.110

Kim Jong Un’s plenum speech and a look ahead to 2020 – NKNews Podcast Ep.109

Japan’s difficult relationship with the Korean peninsula – NKNews Podcast Ep.108

Unfinished business in North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 3

How one American snuck into North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 2

An American prisoner in North Korea – NK News podcast special episode part 1

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