North Korea News Podcast by NK News

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 the DPRK nuclear problem.

In this week's episode, Perry also mentions a nuclear weapons-focused podcast called "At the Brink" — that can be found here.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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 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 Kookmin University professor Andrei Lankov and economic researcher Peter Ward point out in a new paper, it's important to remember that conditions are far worse in North Korea. They argue that North Koreans volunteer for and seek out opportunities abroad and in fact have much more agency than is typically reported.

Lankov and Ward join the North Korea News Podcast to discuss the work conditions of North Korean laborers, human rights, embedded agency, workers rights and the future of North Korean labor exports

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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.

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, North Korea's nuclear program, ICBMs and other missile capabilities. Garlauskas also discussed summits, why 2015 was in fact the closest the Korean peninsula has come to war in recent years (not 2018), and shares advice on careers related to the Korean peninsula.

Markus V. Garlauskas led the U.S. intelligence community’s strategic analysis on North Korea as the National Intelligence Officer for North Korea from July 2014 to June 2020, after serving in U.S. Forces Korea for 12 years. Following the conclusion of his government appointment as a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service, he joined the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security of the Atlantic Council as a nonresident senior fellow affiliated with its Asia Security Initiative. Follow him on Twitter: @Mister_G_2.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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 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 meet with North Korean officials and foreign businessmen.

Director Mads Brügger joins the NK News Podcast to talk about how he chronicled these activities in “The Mole” — a new, three-episode documentary series that uses more than 10 years of secretly-recorded footage. Leveraging hidden cameras, the film shares illegal triangle-trade deals to smuggle Russian oil into the DPRK, underground arms factories on a private Ugandan island and sales meetings on North Korean weapons initially intended for Syria.

Read more about "The Mole" here

Watch "The Mole" here

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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.

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.

For full coverage of the parade, including more HD videos, high-resolution photos, analysis and more visit NK News.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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 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 Korean people are curious about the outside world and are taking real risks to learn about it, experts say. In this episode of the NK News podcast, host Jacco Zwetsloot speaks with

Martyn Williams of North Korea Tech and author Jieun Baek about what trickles into North Korea and how. Baek and Williams also cover the leaflet controversy, Starlink, sim cards, what the North Korean news cycle is like, propoganda, evolving punishment structures for foreign media consumption and their nonprofit, Lumen.

Links: Lumen, "North Korea's Hidden Revolution" (book)

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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 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 visit that may be linked to the North Korean nuclear program, an upcoming propaganda push and the return of the famous North Korean "bridge to nowhere."

Host Jacco Zwetsloot is joined by Korea Risk Group CEO Chad O’Carroll and NK News reporters Jeongmin Kim, Colin Zwirko and Min Chao Choy, along with special guest retired Lieutenant Colonel Steve Tharp.

Links and stories discussed:

NK Pro conference call: What to make of North Korea's October 10 military parade?

North Korea shot South Korean citizen and burned his body, ROK military says

Kim Jong Un apologizes for lethal shooting of South Korean official

North Korea warns South Korea not to ‘intrude’ while looking for victim’s body

North Korea’s killing of a South Korean official spells trouble for Moon Jae-in

North Korea’s cafe culture is growing, but coffee is still a luxury brew

North Korean statues are showing up in Africa — and they could be illegal

Russia exports more medical goods to North Korea ahead of major hospital opening

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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, 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 ... unicorns.

Abrahamian is a former Koret Fellow at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) from 2018 to 2019.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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.

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 version of this interview is also available here.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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.

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 Jeongmin Kim and Colin Zwirko.

About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by 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.