North Korea News Podcast by NK News

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. They look at each presidential priorities in regard to North Korea issues, reasonable satisfaction with the outcomes, denuclearization talks with North Korea and on the Korean Peninsula, acceptance from the Biden administration on whether North Korea will be deemed a rogue nuclear state like with India and Pakistan, the mention of Japan and cooperation to address the DPRK, Son Kim and the elephant in the room, China as a complicated factor when dealing with North Korea, South Korean missile strike capabilities reaching North Korea, keeping previous administration agreements and declarations on which to build, Nancy Pelosi, and what to look forward in the next six months to a year coming out of this summit.

Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined by Chad O’Carroll, founder of NK News and NK Pro; Colin Zwirko, senior analytic correspondent for NK News; and Peter Ward, a researcher on North Korean politics and contributing analyst to NK Pro.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 weapons, the lessons of German reunification for the Korean Peninsula, and why he is not optimistic about the prospectives for change under the Kim Jong Un regime.

Thomas Schäfer was the German ambassador to North Korea from 2007 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2018. He is the author of a new book on his time in Pyongyang called "From Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un: How the Hardliners Prevailed: On the Political History of North Korea (2007 - 2020)."

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 is the author of the recently released book "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World" as well as "Dereliction of Duty." You can also find him on Twitter and Instagram.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 by NK Pro correspondent Min Chao Choy and analysts Peter Ward and James Fretwell.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

Correction (May 4, 2021): A guest speaker on this podcast misstated that the previous U.S. presidential administration did not conduct a North Korea policy review.

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 with the U.S. National Security Council and how the U.S. can more effectively communicate the logic behind sanctions.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 countries have changed over the past few decades.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 NK News reporters Chad O’Carroll, Jeongmin Kim, Colin Zwirko and Min Chao Choy.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.

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 conspiracy, how to study the North Korean military and how North Korea sells weapons abroad.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists.