North Korea News Podcast by NK News

Jan 30 2025 10 ep. 16 mins 2.5k
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The NK 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 own staff. We welcome both generalist and specialist audiences interested in knowing more about the Korean Peninsula.

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Kap Seol: How North Korea’s troop dispatch to Russia has exacerbated proxy war

Jan 30 2025 13 mins  
Researcher Kap Seol, a frequent contributor to the leftist magazine Jacobin, joins the podcast to discuss his recent article about how the deployment of DPRK troops to fight in Ukraine could lead South Korea to respond by escalating its own involvement. The self-described former socialist also talks about the similarities between Kim Il Sung and Romania’s Nicolae Ceaușescu, wh

North Korea’s sea-to-surface missile launch and ROK spy agency allegations

Jan 27 2025 18 mins  
North Korea launched multiple sea-to-surface strategic cruise missiles on Saturday, with leader Kim Jong Un overseeing the first weapons test since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency. NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park joins the podcast to discuss the launch, as well as a former ROK spy likening President Yoon Suk-yeol’s alleged order to arrest lawmakers to the tactics of

Lyle Goldstein: Why Trump needs to engage North Korea to lower tensions

Jan 22 2025 10 mins  
North Korea-Russia ties have grown by leaps and bounds since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, while its relationship with China appears to have suffered as a result. This week, expert Lyle Goldstein joins the podcast to share insights into Pyongyang’s strategic partnerships with its neighbors and the complex dynamics that shape its nuclear ambitions. He also discusses wh

Kim Jong Un’s message to troops, Yoon’s arrest and Kim Yo Jong’s statement

Jan 20 2025 17 mins  
In this episode, NK News Deputy Managing Editor Alannah Hill dives into the latest evidence of North Korea’s military involvement in the war in Ukraine, focusing on recently recovered handwritten notes detailing Kim Jong Un’s message to North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces. She also talks about how Kyiv’s decision to reveal the identities of captured DPRK s

Predicting 2025: What’s in store for North Korea in the year to come

Jan 16 2025 12 mins  
In this special roundtable episode, NK News journalists evaluate the accuracy of their predictions for 2024 and share what they expect from North Korea in the year to come. The team discusses how the DPRK’s relations with South Korea, China and Russia have evolved and allegations that Seoul sought to provoke Pyongyang last year. They also anticipate what Donald Trump and Lee Jae

North Korean soldiers’ testimony from Ukraine and Kim Jong Un’s development push

Jan 13 2025 19 mins  
Ukraine released the first testimony from North Korean soldiers captured fighting for Russia in the Kursk region on Saturday, providing the latest evidence of the DPRK’s involvement in the war. NK News Senior Analytic Correspondent Colin Zwirko joins the podcast to discuss the footage and photos of the two soldiers released by the Ukrainian government and President Volodymyr Zel

Andrei Lankov: Why North Korean troops won’t make a difference in Ukraine war

Jan 09 2025 14 mins  
In this episode, Andrei Lankov returns to the podcast to discuss key developments in and around North Korea over the last year, including the deployment of DPRK weapons and soldiers to aid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He also discusses the impact of Pyongyang's increasing alignment with Moscow, the current state of China-DPRK ties and why North Korea is in no hurry to allow Wes

North Korea’s upgraded hypersonic missile, and the year-end party plenum

Jan 06 2025 18 mins  
North Korea launched into the new year with its first test of a ballistic missile in months, firing an upgraded version of its solid-fuel hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile on Monday. NK News Lead Correspondent Shreyas Reddy joins the podcast to discuss what new about the missile and the timing of the launch. He also reviews the DPRK’s year-end party plenum and lea

Jingwu Fang: How a ‘third’ Korea formed on the North Korea-China border

Jan 02 2025 13 mins  
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is located in northeast China, just across the border from North Korea, and while few outsiders may know about it, the region is home to a sizable population of ethnic Koreans whose story is wrapped up with the decades-long division of the peninsula. In this episode, Chinese YouTuber Jingwu Fang joins the podcast to discuss what he learned duri