North Korea News Podcast

North Korea News Podcast


Latest Episodes

Donald Kirk: How Seoul secretly paid for a summit with North Korea
August 07, 2024

Almost a quarter century ago, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung traveled to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Il for the first-ever inter-Korean summit, a watershed moment in ties betwe

North Korean missiles to border, catastrophic floods and arms factory expansion
August 06, 2024

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave a speech at a large-scale military event on Sunday where he handed over more than 250 missile launchers to the frontline units, calling for improvements to nuclear

Ed Pulford: Discovering the city where North Korea, China and Russia collide
August 02, 2024

Ed Pulford joins the podcast to discuss his new book Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea, which examines the unique border area between the three countries fr

North Korea’s Olympic hopes, a $10M FBI bounty and a fond farewell
July 30, 2024

North Koreas 16-athlete contingent descended upon Paris for the Olympic Games last week, competing in events such as table tennis, wrestling and diving. NK News Joe Smith joins the podcast to talk a

Roundtable: What to make of North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry’s indictment
July 25, 2024

The U.S. has charged prominent North Korea expert Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and White House official, with allegedly working for South Korean spies in exchange for luxury goods and expensive

ROK turns up loudspeakers, a North Korean diplomat’s testimony and defector art
July 23, 2024

South Korea restarted full-scale propaganda broadcasts from border loudspeakers this week in retaliation over North Koreas ninth trash balloon launch to date. - NK News Editorial Intern Joon Ha Par

Kim Jaechun: Why unification is only possible with North Korean people’s support
July 18, 2024

Kim Jong Uns announcement of a new policy rejecting reunification has sparked considerable debate among North Korea watchers. This week, Kim Jaechun, a professor of international relations at the Gra

Kim Yo Jong threats, a North Korean eatery in Mongolia and aid workers return
July 16, 2024

The North Korean leaders sister warned that South Korea will pay a very high price after North Korean authorities discovered more ROK-origin leaflets in its territory, according to a statement publ

Park Hyangsu: Why North Korea’s unification rejection shocked Koreans in Japan
July 11, 2024

Park Hyangsu, who was born and raised in Japan in a pro-DPRK enclave of ethnic Koreans, joins the podcast for a second time to discuss how this group has reacted to Kim Jong Uns decision to abandon p

Kim Yo Jong slams ROK border drills, Russian kids to visit North Korea
July 09, 2024

Kim Jong Uns powerful sister condemned South Koreas resumption of live-fire drills along the inter-Korean border as a tactic to distract the public from calls to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol, whi