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From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan

From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan

Charles Robert Jenkins spent 39 years in the DPRK, working as everything from translator to silver screen star

From North Carolina to North Korea and beyond: meeting a U.S. defector in Japan
Oliver Jia
Oliver Jia November 27, 2019
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
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot November 26, 2019
Why a break-in at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence reflects a strained alliance

Why a break-in at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence reflects a strained alliance

The protest from "progressive" South Korean students comes amid controversial U.S.-ROK defense cost-sharing negotiations

Why a break-in at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence reflects a strained alliance
Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin November 19, 2019
U.S. outreach to North Korea over war remains “met with silence”: DPAA chief

U.S. outreach to North Korea over war remains “met with silence”: DPAA chief

Agency in charge of recovering POW remains still "open" to sitting down with DPRK in 2020

U.S. outreach to North Korea over war remains “met with silence”: DPAA chief
Jacob Fromer
Jacob Fromer November 19, 2019
Bringing Slovenian avant-garde rock to the DPRK – NKNews Podcast Ep.103
Podcast

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
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot November 19, 2019
Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
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Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started

The story of how South Korea's leading dissident and a chaebol tycoon launched the historic inter-Korean project

Party like it’s 1998: how South Korean tourism to Mount Kumgang got started
Aidan Foster-Carter
Aidan Foster-Carter November 17, 2019
Bow to the leader: a history of North Korea’s iconic and ubiquitous Kim statues

Bow to the leader: a history of North Korea’s iconic and ubiquitous Kim statues

Statues began being erected in the late 1960s, and continue to be sites of mandatory pilgrimage to this day

Bow to the leader: a history of North Korea’s iconic and ubiquitous Kim statues
Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov November 11, 2019
Beyond the impasse: the answer to solving the GSOMIA dispute lies in the past

Beyond the impasse: the answer to solving the GSOMIA dispute lies in the past

Historical issues between the two countries must be resolved if the U.S. is to achieve its trilateral alliance

Beyond the impasse: the answer to solving the GSOMIA dispute lies in the past
Wang Son-taek
Wang Son-taek November 7, 2019
Korean-Americans should be part of DPRK family reunions: U.S. House Committee

Korean-Americans should be part of DPRK family reunions: U.S. House Committee

House Foreign Affairs Committee passes bill saying State Dept, ROK should include Korean-Americans in future reunions

Korean-Americans should be part of DPRK family reunions: U.S. House Committee
Jacob Fromer
Jacob Fromer October 30, 2019
With the century: the extraordinary life and times of Kim Il Sung

With the century: the extraordinary life and times of Kim Il Sung

How Korea, and the world, changed alongside the life of the infamous dictator

With the century: the extraordinary life and times of Kim Il Sung
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy October 29, 2019
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