North Korea News Podcast
1) 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 operation reportedly aimed at installing surveillance equ...Show More
2) 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-fuel motor” used in long-range nuclear missiles, a w...Show More
3) 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 and Vladimir Putin at China’s Victory Day parade in ...Show More
4) 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 Korean President Lee Jae-myung and his U.S. counterp...Show More
5) 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 diplomacy with North Korea in the 1980s. Torig...Show More
6) 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 Trump, where Lee appealed for Trump to take on a “peac...Show More
7) 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 governments during and after the Cold War — connections...Show More
8) 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-seop, a 95-year-old former North Korean soldier and so-called unconverted prisoner of war who is seeking repatriation t...Show More
9) 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 1945 to 1950 when the country was divided into the N...Show More
10) 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 allegedly leaking the locations of fellow escapees t...Show More