The “North Korea 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 very own staff. We welcome both generalist and specialist audiences interested in knowing more about the Korean Peninsula.
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2024-03-27 |
How North Korea rinses the dirty proceeds of its cyber heists – Ep. 335 North Korea continues to process cargo through a border disinfection facility established during the pandemic despite taking steps to ease COVID-19 controls, according to NK Pro analysis. NK News senior analytic correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the pod... |
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2024-03-20 |
How dictatorship shapes the politics of the North Korean diaspora – Ep. 334 The U.S. and South Korea wrapped up large-scale springtime military drills last week, but not without a response from the DPRK. NK News Managing Editor Bryan Betts (@BryanBetts21) sits down to discuss North Korea’s recent rocket salvo, as well as why s... |
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2024-03-13 |
North Korea’s unexpected response to US-ROK military exercises – Ep. 333 The U.S. and South Korea launched large-scale springtime military exercises to practice “neutralizing” North Korean nuclear threats this month. Pyongyang has called the Freedom Shield exercises between the allies “frantic war drills,” warning that Wash... |
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2024-03-06 |
What the UN’s role in North Korea will look like going forward – Ep. 332 North Korea marked the fifth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un’s trip to Vietnam by highlighting relations between Pyongyang and Hanoi, while making no mention of Kim’s failed summit with former U.S. President Donald Trump during the same visit. NK Ne... |
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2024-02-28 |
How a ‘new Cold War’ is making North Korea more risk-averse – Ep. 331 A German delegation traveled to North Korea this week to inspect the condition of the country’s embassy in Pyongyang, in what appears to be the first visit by European staff in some four years. NK News Seoul Correspondent Ifang Bremer (@IfangBremer) ... |
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2024-02-21 |
What Kim Jong Un’s appearances can tell us about the DPRK regime – Ep. 330 Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korea’s leader, raised the possibility of engagement between Pyongyang and Tokyo last week but caveated that this is her “personal” view. NK News Lead Correspondent Jeongmin Kim (@jeongminnkim) dissects Kim... |
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2024-02-14 |
Analyzing the US-ROK alliance’s impact on North Korea’s policies – Ep. 329 The first group of tourists to visit North Korea since before the COVID-19 pandemic returned home to Russia this week after a 4-day trip to Pyongyang and the Masikryong Ski Resort. NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin discusses plans for more grou... |
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2024-02-07 |
How North Korea started spat between Moscow and Seoul – Ep. 328 South Korea and Russia have gone back and forth in recent days after Moscow took issue with President Yoon Suk-yeol’s description of North Korea at a defense meeting. The NK News team discusses the war of words between the two sides, along with a plann... |
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2024-01-31 |
Has Kim Jong Un really made a strategic decision to go to war? – Ep. 327 Some three weeks ago, longtime North Korea watchers Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker set off alarm bells from Washington to Seoul when they asserted that “like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war.” Their wa... |
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2024-01-24 |
Covering North Korea and Kim Jong Un’s elite female entourage – Ep. 326 North Korea appears to have demolished a large monument in Pyongyang symbolizing hope for reunification with South Korea, following orders from Kim Jong Un to “erase” symbols that celebrate inter-Korean reconciliation and the goal of reunification. NK... |
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