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  • Kenneth Bae on surviving North Korean detention: North Korea Unpacked

    Kenneth Bae on surviving North Korean detention: North Korea Unpacked
    2026/09/24
    This month, Kenneth Bae joins North Korea Unpacked with Jacco Zwetsloot to discuss the 735 days he spent detained in North Korea, how repeated visits to the country shaped his understanding of ordinary North Koreans and what his imprisonment revealed about the state’s security system. He recounts how he traveled to North Korea 17 times […]
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    58 分
  • Russia envoy arrives, DPRK hackers strike and North Korean POWs reach ROK

    Russia envoy arrives, DPRK hackers strike and North Korean POWs reach ROK
    2026/10/01
    NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin and Lead Correspondent Shreyas Reddy join the podcast this week to discuss Russia’s new ambassador to North Korea, Pyongyang’s latest cyber operations and the growing dispute between Seoul and Kyiv over two North Korean prisoners of war. Anton explains what the arrival of veteran diplomat Andrei Podelyshev signals about […]
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    40 分
  • North Korean mine blast, disputed intent and the risk of escalation at the DMZ

    North Korean mine blast, disputed intent and the risk of escalation at the DMZ
    2026/10/07
    NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park and Michael Bosack, former deputy secretary of the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission, join the podcast this week to discuss the Sept. 21 landmine explosion in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), what investigators have established about the North Korean mine involved and why questions remain over how it ended up […]
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    44 分
  • Edward Goldring on the logic behind North Korea’s elite purges

    Edward Goldring on the logic behind North Korea’s elite purges
    2026/10/14
    Edward Goldring, senior lecturer in political science at the University of Melbourne and author of the new book “Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive,” joins the podcast to discuss why authoritarian leaders remove senior officials and what those purges can reveal about political survival. Goldring explains why a purge does not necessarily mean imprisonment or […]
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    50 分
  • Joseph Kim on why North Korea is changing beyond Kim Jong Un

    Joseph Kim on why North Korea is changing beyond Kim Jong Un
    2026/09/23
    North Korean defector and George W. Bush Institute program manager Joseph Kim joins the podcast to discuss his recent NK News opinion column arguing that analysts and policymakers focus too heavily on Kim Jong Un while overlooking the role ordinary North Koreans could play in shaping the country’s future. He explains why he believes North […]
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    28 分
  • North Korea’s attack drill, Wonsan Kalma slowdown and Google’s blurry maps

    North Korea’s attack drill, Wonsan Kalma slowdown and Google’s blurry maps
    2026/09/16
    This week, NK News Senior Analytical Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the podcast to break down North Korea’s latest missile drill, which combined ballistic missiles, 600mm multiple rocket launchers, cruise missiles and attack drones in a coordinated strike on a single target. Colin explains what the exercise reveals about Pyongyang’s growing ability to integrate different weapons […]
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    29 分
  • Russia bridge opens, Songdowon sanctions and North Korea’s forgotten UK insurer

    Russia bridge opens, Songdowon sanctions and North Korea’s forgotten UK insurer
    2026/09/09
    This week, NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin joins the podcast to discuss the opening of the first new road bridge between North Korea and Russia, a project years in the making that gives the two countries their first direct vehicle crossing across the Tumen River. Anton also breaks down how the project’s cost ballooned […]
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    34 分
  • Death of a North Korean official, and the mystery around Pyongyang Papers

    Death of a North Korean official, and the mystery around Pyongyang Papers
    2025/11/11
    This week, NK News founder Chad O’Carroll joins the podcast to discuss the life of Kim Yong Nam, the longtime No. 2 in North Korea’s leadership who died this month at 97. He also unravels the mystery behind Pyongyang Papers, the website that anonymously published information on North Korea’s sanctions-evading network before disappearing without warning […]
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    20 分