North Korea News Podcast by NK News

News & Politics Podcasts

A weekly podcast discussing all things North Korea, produced by NK News

Episodes

Jacco Zwetsloot: A look back and a new chapter for the NK News Podcast

Eunhee Park: Surviving North Korea and reclaiming identity in the South

Sayaka Chatani: How pro-North Korea communities took root in Japan

Cathy Kang: Rethinking Korean unification from a global perspective

Jonathan Cheng: The Christian roots of North Korea’s personality cult

Ankit Panda: How North Korea could take its military modernization to space

Pit Heltmann: Diplomacy in North Korea before the world shut down

Peter Ward: Inside North Korea’s expanding crackdown on ‘unsocialist’ behavior

A canceled Pyongyang marathon, a renamed community and a harsh reality in China

Ankit Panda: North Korea’s deterrence calculus after US strikes on Iran

Roundtable: What we learned from North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress

Kim Jong Un’s reelection, Kim Yo Jong’s promotion and changes at the top

Martyn Williams: How digital tech strengthens North Korean state control

Alec Zubrick: What 2025 taught us about North Korea’s crypto strategy

Epstein files, North Korean POWs and the looming Party Congress

Lee Sang-sin: Why most South Koreans no longer see unification as necessary

More Party Congress preparations, and Iran’s new envoy in North Korea

Roland de Courson: Photographing the demilitarized zone’s unseen stories

North Korea’s parade and Party Congress prep, plus personnel purges

Ria Roy: The importance of subtle language differences between North and South