North Korea News Podcast by NK News

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01.26.2021

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 ...

North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

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 ...
11.10.2020 How South Korean NGOs impact inter-Korean relations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 156 Secretary-General Sang-young Hong of the Korean Sharing Movement talks about the role non-government actors and organizations play in inter-Korean relations, efficient distribution of food and other aid, the constraints on NGOs caused by sanctions and the importance of civil society ...
11.03.2020 Trump or Biden: Who can solve the North Korea problem? – NKNews Podcast Ep. 155 What will Trump 2.0’s North Korea policy be? How would North Korea react to a Biden-Harris White House? What would these administrations mean for the future of the U.S.-ROK alliance? Yonsei University Professor John Delury and Retired Lieutenant General In-Bum ...
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 ...

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North Korea News Podcast by NK News episodes:

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

How South Korean NGOs impact inter-Korean relations – NKNews Podcast Ep. 156

Trump or Biden: Who can solve the North Korea problem? – NKNews Podcast Ep. 155

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

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