North Korea News Podcast by NK News
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North Korea News Podcast by NK News
The NK News Podcast is a weekly program covering all things North Korea: Discussion on the latest news, extended interviews with leading specialists, and insight from our own staff. We welcome both generalist and specialist audiences interested in knowing more about the Korean Peninsula. The full po...
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Unpacking North Korea’s military parade, from foreign guests to new weapons
This week, Korea Risk Group Executive Director Jeongmin Kim and Senior Analytical Correspondent Colin Zwirko unpack North Korea’s military parade in P...
Chandana Seshadri: How North Korean IT workers exploit remote hiring systems
This week, Chandana Seshadri joins the podcast to discuss her RUSI Journal article, “How DPRK IT Workers Exploit Identity Management Vulnerabilities,”...
North Korea’s latest weapons expo, naval ambitions and Pyongyang hospital opens
NK News’ Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko unpacks the key developments ahead of North Korea’s Oct. 10 military parade marking the 80th anniv...
James Heenan: Inside the UN’s new human rights report on North Korea
James Heenan, the representative of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul, joins the podcast this week to unpack the High...
Lee Jae-myung’s ‘E.N.D.’ game, two states debate and North Korea-China talks
NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park joins the podcast to discuss President Lee Jae-myung’s first speech to the U.N. General Assembly and his debut of a...
Vipin Narang: Why Seoul doesn’t need its own nukes to counter North Korea
This week, Dr. Vipin Narang joins the NK News podcast to unpack how the U.S. and South Korea are seeking to strengthen extended deterrence against Nor...
Loyalty relays for Kim Jong Un, and North Korea’s terms for talks with the US
This episode of the NK News podcast unpacks the unusual loyalty relays taking place across North Korea, where both children and adults carry letters p...
Stephen Mercado: How Japan crafted secret weapons to counter North Korea
This week, Stephen Mercado returns to the NK News Podcast to discuss his new book, “Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons,” and how Japan’s secretive...
Blaming Russian for North Korean deaths, 100 days of Lee Jae-myung and drills
This week, NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park joins the podcast to discuss newly revealed DPRK state media footage that appears to blame Russia for No...
Mark Sauter: What to make of the reported US Navy SEAL mission into North Korea
This week, the NK News podcast explores the New York Times’ recent revelations about a 2019 U.S. Navy SEAL mission on North Korea’s coast. The operati...
North Korea’s engine test, Kim Jong Un’s Beijing diplomacy and trade fair plans
This week, NK News Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the podcast to discuss North Korea’s “static firing test of a high-thrust solid-fu...
The optics of Kim Jong Un’s appearance at China’s military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his appearance at a large-scale multilateral event on Wednesday, standing shoulder to shoulder with Xi Jinping an...
Go Myong-hyun: US-ROK talks and North Korea’s diplomatic theater in Beijing
In this episode, Go Myong-hyun of Seoul’s Institute for National Security Strategy returns to the podcast to assess the recent summit between South Ko...
Joseph Torigian: How Xi Jinping’s father rebuilt China-North Korea ties
On this episode, scholar Joseph Torigian joins the podcast to discuss his new biography of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s father and Xi senior’s delicate...
The first Lee-Trump summit, and North Korea’s commemoration of war dead
In this week’s episode, NK News Deputy Managing Editor Alannah Hill breaks down President Lee Jae-myung’s first summit with U.S. President Donald Trum...
Tycho van der Hoog: North Korea’s forgotten allies in Africa
In this episode, Tycho van der Hoog joins the podcast to explore how North Korea forged and sustained ties with African liberation movements and gover...
An ex-North Korean soldier’s bid for repatriation, and controversial remittances
NK News Correspondent Jooheon Kim joins the podcast this week to discuss Ahn Hak-sop, a 95-year-old former North Korean soldier and so-called unconver...
Kornel Chang: How Korea’s liberation led to division into North and South
On today’s episode, Kornel Chang discusses his new book “A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation,” which sheds light on the period from 19...
A North Korean defection, postponed US-ROK drills and dismantling loudspeakers
NK News Executive Director Jeongmin Kim joins the podcast to discuss the story of a North Korean defector in her 70s who is under investigation for al...
Maeng Hyo-shim: A North Korean family’s escape against all odds
On this week’s episode, Maeng Hyo-shim, a young woman who fled North Korea in 2018, joins the podcast to share her experiences of state discrimination...
Russia-DPRK bridge update, trilateral boat tours and Moscow-Pyongyang flights
On this week’s episode, NK News Data Analyst Anton Sokolin unpacks major construction updates on the Russia–DPRK car bridge project near the Tumen Riv...
How South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung could revive US-North Korea talks
The flurry of summitry in 2018-19 between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in inspired...
Kim Yo Jong spurns Seoul’s overtures, and US targets North Korean laptop farms
North Korea broke its relative silence about the new South Korean administration of Lee Jae-myung on Monday, with the DPRK leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong...
How North Korea’s Kim rulers manage elites to guarantee regime survival
North Korea’s ruling Kim family has orchestrated not one but two leadership successions during its over seven decades in power, and may well be prepar...
North Korean ChatGPT, renaming the unification ministry and Seoul’s main enemy
South Korea’s National Assembly questioned the Lee administration’s nominees for key positions last week, including the ministers of unification, defe...
How Russian tiger hunters got roped into a plot to kill the North Korean leader
In this episode, Professor Andrei Lankov and NK News’ Anton Sokolin discuss the fascinating story of the Yankovskys — a Russian family whose journey t...
Lavrov sails on Kim Jong Un’s yacht, military parade prep and wastewater rumors
NK News Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins this week’s episode to discuss Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s high-profile visit to...
Shinyoung Kwon: Authoritarian roots of North Korea’s neighborhood associations
Dr. Shinyong Kwon joins this week’s episode to discuss how neighborhood associations — known today as inminban in the DPRK — have been used as tools o...
Additional North Korean troop deployment, Kim mourns in public and beachgoers
Seoul last week said it cannot confirm a CNN report that North Korea plans to send 30,000 additional soldiers to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, amid...
Mitsuhiro Mimura: The secret to North Korea’s economic resilience
Professor Mitsuhito Mimura, a leading Japanese expert on the North Korean economy, joins this week’s podcast for an in-depth discussion on the DPRK’s...
North Korea’s mega resort opens, testimony of executions and taekwondo rivalry
North Korea finally opened the long-delayed Wonsan Kalma mega resort on the east coast last week, with leader Kim Jong Un calling for a “new era” of t...
Matchmaking across borders: Documenting North Koreans relationships in the South
In this episode, Norwegian artist and director Morten Traavik and cultural mediator Sun Kim discuss their new documentary “North South Man Woman.” The...
Seoul’s new unification minister, DPRK rocket launches and border drills
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has announced nominations for several key positions handling North Korean issues, continuing to select pro-engage...
Dong Jin Kim: What North Korea can learn from Ireland’s peace process
Dr. Dong Jin Kim, a leading peace studies scholar with research experience spanning Korea, Ireland, Cyprus and South Africa, joins the podcast to expl...
Lessons for North Korea from Israeli strikes on Iran, and loudspeakers go silent
Israel’s dramatic strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s retaliation have dominated headlines in recent days, and North Korea is no doubt payi...
Balazs Szalontai: North Korea’s calculated diplomacy in the Middle East
This week, Balazs Szalontai returns to the podcast to explore the overlooked history of North Korea’s relationship with countries across the Middle Ea...
Kim Jong Un’s hospital visit, damaged warship’s voyage and DPRK election report
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a hospital construction site in Kusong on Monday, where he criticized the skills of the military conscripts...
Moon Chung-in: Why the window to rebuilding inter-Korean relations is closed
In this episode, NK News welcomes back Professor Moon Chung-in, one of South Korea’s most influential scholars of inter-Korean relations to assess the...
North Korea’s warship troubles, Shangri-La and Lee Jae-myung on cusp of victory
North Korea’s new warship remains submerged on its side more than 10 days after the embarrassing failure to side-launch the vessel last month, despite...
Should Seoul formally abandon the goal of reunification with North Korea?
A year and a half ago, North Korea made waves when it announced that it was abandoning the goal of inter-Korean reunification. Now, South Koreans are...