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.
Jerome Sauvage discusses his years leading humanitarian efforts in the DPRK, the root causes of food insecurity and more
Lauren Richardson discusses the politics of victimhood and how the DPRK co-opted the atomic bombings for its purposes
The NK News team visits the inter-Korean border at a time of rising tensions and reports of starvation in North Korea
Alhassan Mamman Muhammad discusses Nigeria-DPRK ties and why he has embraced Kim Il Sung’s Juche thought
Keith Luse explains how a lack of information on all sides diminishes opportunities for breakthroughs in talks
Siegfried Hecker discusses his tour of Yongbyon in 2004 and the history of the DPRK’s nuclear program
David Cheng Chang discusses how the fight over territory morphed into one over prisoners of war
The NK News team discusses what to make of North Korea’s latest nighttime spectacle
Security experts David Walsh and Andrew Gilholm discuss risks on the peninsula and what to do if North Korea attacks
Danielle Chubb and Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings discuss how the two camps find common ground in promoting disability rights
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