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.
The NK News team breaks down growing hostility on the peninsula that has pushed tensions to highest level in years
Economist Halin Han discusses how Vietnam and others’ transition to capitalism can serve as a model for the DPRK
Monique Macias shares her experience growing up in Pyongyang under the guardianship of North Korea’s founding leader
Charles Thirlwall discusses the explosion of international business interest in North Korea at the turn of the century
The NK News team discusses DPRK state media’s weapons reveals, a missile over Japan, US-ROK responses and more
Christine Ahn and Colleen Moore discuss how women across the world are working to formally end the Korean War
Soo Kim explains how analysts interpret information coming out of Pyongyang and find signals in the noise
Seohyun Lee discusses her life in an elite DPRK family and how her view of the country radically changed while abroad
Sung-Yoon Lee discusses grim realities of the Kim Jong Un regime and why denuclearization summit talks are pointless
The NK News team discusses the biggest events in August, from DPRK’s COVID ‘victory’ to an attack on a defector-activist
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