North Korea News Podcast by NK News

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

Episodes

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

April 28, 2026 • 70 mins

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence. NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin kicks off the podcast this week by discussing the long-running debate over the transfer of wartime operational control, or OPCON, from the U.S. to South Korea, following comments made by U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson. He also examines […]

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

April 21, 2026 • 51 mins

NK News Correspondent Jooheon Kim kicks off the podcast this week by discussing North Korea-Japan relations, focusing on lingering tensions over the abductions issue, recent trilateral naval cooperation with Seoul and Washington, and Pyongyang’s criticism of Japan’s latest diplomatic Blue Book. In the second half, the scholar Sayaka Chatani joins the podcast to explore the […]

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Cathy Kang: Rethinking Korean unification from a global perspective

April 13, 2026 • 44 mins

Korea Risk Group Executive Director Jeongmin Kim kicks off the podcast this week by discussing North Korea’s positive response after Seoul expressed regret for past civilian drone incursions, only to quickly undercut hopes for inter-Korean detente with more hardline messaging and a series of missile launches. In the second half, Dr. Cathy Kang of the […]

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

April 6, 2026 • 51 mins

NK News founder Chad O’Carroll begins this week’s episode by discussing the death of North Korea’s longtime representative to the International Olympic Committee, a South Korean helicopter’s accidental flight into the demilitarized zone during a firefighting mission and Seoul’s expression of regret over civilian drone incursions. In the second half, Jonathan Cheng, the China bureau […]

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

March 31, 2026 • 51 mins

NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin kicks off this week’s episode with a look at Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s visit to Pyongyang for a summit last week, and his potential to serve as an intermediary between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. The conversation explores Belarus’s evolving ties with the DPRK, including plans to establish […]

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

March 24, 2026 • 54 mins

NK News Correspondent Joon Ha Park opens this week’s episode by discussing the first session of the new Supreme People’s Assembly, which reappointed Kim Jong Un as North Korea’s head of state and carried out a generational reshuffle of officials. He also discusses Pyongyang’s increasingly hardline rhetoric toward South Korea and the U.S., Kim Yo […]

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

March 17, 2026 • 62 mins

This week, NK News Data Correspondent Anton Sokolin opens the episode with a roundup of recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, including the resumption of China-North Korea passenger rail service and plans to restart flights. He also touches on the DPRK’s weekend test of multiple launch rocket systems, as well as how Russian media is […]

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

March 10, 2026 • 36 mins

NK News Lead Correspondent Shreyas Reddy and Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) Executive Director Hanna Song join this week’s episode of the NK News Podcast. The news roundup begins with the sudden cancellation of the Pyongyang International Marathon, before turning to Seoul’s move to adopt a new term for North Korean-born residents […]

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

March 2, 2026 • 23 mins

International security expert Ankit Panda joins the podcast this week to unpack the latest U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and what they could mean for North Korea’s deterrence thinking. The conversation covers what does and doesn’t translate to the Korean Peninsula: the impact of geography and escalation dynamics, why saturation tactics and interceptor “magazine depth” matter […]

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

February 26, 2026 • 43 mins

In this special roundtable edition of the NK News podcast, the team sits down to discuss the results of North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress, the messaging behind the latest parade in Pyongyang and what leadership reshuffles may signal for the country’s domestic and foreign policy direction. The panel explores why this congress focused less on […]

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North Korea News Podcast by NK News

Episodes

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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

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