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Jacco Zwetsloot

Jacco Zwetsloot has been the host of the NK News Podcast since episode 1 in February 2018. He has interviewed a wide range of guests about their knowledge of and experience in North Korea, from celebrity defectors to high-ranking U.S. government officials. His goal is to help as wide a cross-section of North Korea-related stories as possible be told, in order to build up a fuller picture. Jacco has a Master of Arts from Leiden University, for which he wrote a thesis on North Korean graphic novels.

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Going back and forth to Pyongyang as a secret negotiator – NKNews Podcast Ep.104
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Going back and forth to Pyongyang as a secret negotiator – NKNews Podcast Ep.104

Park Chul-un discusses his multiple clandestine trips across the DMZ during a turbulent period in inter-Korean relations

Going back and forth to Pyongyang as a secret negotiator – NKNews Podcast Ep.104
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Jacco Zwetsloot November 26, 2019
Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103
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Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103

Morten Traavik and Mary Sun Kim discuss Laibach's 2015 concert in Pyongyang and navigating North Korean censorship

Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103
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Jacco Zwetsloot November 19, 2019
The UN COI report on North Korea, five years later – NKNews Podcast Ep.102
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The UN COI report on North Korea, five years later – NKNews Podcast Ep.102

Michael Kirby discusses what has and hasn't changed in DPRK human rights since the landmark document in 2014

The UN COI report on North Korea, five years later – NKNews Podcast Ep.102
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Jacco Zwetsloot November 12, 2019
What Presidents Moon and Trump get wrong about the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.101
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What Presidents Moon and Trump get wrong about the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.101

Former diplomat David Straub discusses why current ROK-U.S. policy towards North Korea is failing — and how to change it

What Presidents Moon and Trump get wrong about the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.101
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Jacco Zwetsloot November 5, 2019
The 100th episode bonanza – NKNews Podcast Ep.100
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The 100th episode bonanza – NKNews Podcast Ep.100

Professor Andrei Lankov, host Jacco Zwetsloot, and the NK News team come together for a special roundtable discussion

The 100th episode bonanza – NKNews Podcast Ep.100
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot October 22, 2019
The last voyage of the Pong Su – an NKNews Podcast special episode
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The last voyage of the Pong Su – an NKNews Podcast special episode

The Age's Richard Baker discusses the DPRK's role in one of the biggest drug smuggling cases in Australian history

The last voyage of the Pong Su – an NKNews Podcast special episode
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Jacco Zwetsloot October 14, 2019
Storm clouds over Stockholm: DPRK-U.S. talks fall apart – NKNews Podcast Ep.99
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Storm clouds over Stockholm: DPRK-U.S. talks fall apart – NKNews Podcast Ep.99

The NK News team discusses how and why working-level negotiations failed — and what happens next

Storm clouds over Stockholm: DPRK-U.S. talks fall apart – NKNews Podcast Ep.99
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot October 8, 2019
Identity and multiculturalism in North and South Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.98
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Identity and multiculturalism in North and South Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.98

Darcie Draudt discusses the changing face of South Korea -- and its implications for the North

Identity and multiculturalism in North and South Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.98
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Jacco Zwetsloot October 1, 2019
Making sense of North Korea’s messy statistics – NKNews Podcast Ep.97
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Making sense of North Korea’s messy statistics – NKNews Podcast Ep.97

The AEI's Nicholas Eberstadt discusses getting to grips with the DPRK's unreliable official numbers

Making sense of North Korea’s messy statistics – NKNews Podcast Ep.97
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot September 24, 2019
Understanding North Korea’s surveillance state – NKNews Podcast Ep.96
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Understanding North Korea’s surveillance state – NKNews Podcast Ep.96

UPenn PhD candidate Benjamin Silberstein discusses law, order, and control in the DPRK

Understanding North Korea’s surveillance state – NKNews Podcast Ep.96
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Jacco Zwetsloot September 17, 2019
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