Episodes

  • Year-end special: A look back at the most compelling North Korea stories of 2025

    Year-end special: A look back at the most compelling North Korea stories of 2025
    Dec 25 2025
    2025 was packed with news from the Korean Peninsula: new presidents assumed office in South Korea and the United States, North Korea expanded its cooperation with Russia and Pyongyang finally opened its long-awaited beach resort. In this special year-end episode, the NK News team joins the podcast to revisit their most compelling stories of the […]
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    56 mins
  • UN condemns North Korean abuses, POWs in the DPRK and inter-Korean tourism

    UN condemns North Korean abuses, POWs in the DPRK and inter-Korean tourism
    Dec 23 2025
    This week’s podcast starts by discussing the U.N. General Assembly’s adoption of a resolution condemning North Korea’s human rights abuses for the 21st consecutive year. NK News correspondent Jooheon Kim explains the implications of the resolution and Seoul’s support, before talking about messages to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung from the families of prisoners […]
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    18 mins
  • Gabe Segoine: How ‘surfing diplomacy’ made waves in North Korea

    Gabe Segoine: How ‘surfing diplomacy’ made waves in North Korea
    Dec 18 2025
    Gabe Segoine, the founder of the first surfing program in North Korea and the Christian nongovernmental organization Love North Korea Ministries, joins the podcast to discuss his experience searching for waves off the isolated country’s coast and providing humanitarian aid for its people. He recalls his experience at the Chinese airport en route to North […]
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    54 mins
  • A North Korean’s murder in St. Petersburg, and a homecoming for DPRK troops

    A North Korean’s murder in St. Petersburg, and a homecoming for DPRK troops
    Dec 16 2025
    This week’s podcast kicks off with the 2003 murder case of a North Korean man in St. Petersburg, previously known as the “criminal capital” of Russia, and the unanswered questions surrounding his brutal death at the hands of a neo-Nazi group. NK News data correspondent Anton Sokolin then discusses North Korea’s reaction to Russian Ambassador […]
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    22 mins
  • Jane Hardy: An Australian diplomat’s lessons from 30 years with North Korea

    Jane Hardy: An Australian diplomat’s lessons from 30 years with North Korea
    Dec 11 2025
    Former Australian diplomat Jane Hardy joins this episode to discuss how Australia has engaged with North Korea over the past few decades, and what that experience reveals about diplomacy, deterrence and nuclear risk today. Hardy, who spent over 30 years in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, shares insights from her work on […]
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Death of Russian ambassador to DPRK, forgotten detainees and Halifax Forum

    Death of Russian ambassador to DPRK, forgotten detainees and Halifax Forum
    Dec 9 2025
    This week’s episode opens with the news of the sudden death of Russia’s ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, who died at 70 on Saturday following decades of diplomatic service on the Korean Peninsula. NK News founder Chad O’Carroll then discusses his recent appearance at a high-profile press conference with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, […]
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    21 mins
  • Death of a North Korean official, and the mystery around Pyongyang Papers

    Death of a North Korean official, and the mystery around Pyongyang Papers
    Nov 11 2025
    This week, NK News founder Chad O’Carroll joins the podcast to discuss the life of Kim Yong Nam, the longtime No. 2 in North Korea’s leadership who died this month at 97. He also unravels the mystery behind Pyongyang Papers, the website that anonymously published information on North Korea’s sanctions-evading network before disappearing without warning […]
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    20 mins
  • Joëlle Hivonnet: How the North Korean threat came knocking on the EU’s door

    Joëlle Hivonnet: How the North Korean threat came knocking on the EU’s door
    Dec 4 2025
    This week, Dr. Joëlle Hivonnet joins the podcast to discuss her four-year tenure as the EU’s deputy head in Seoul from 2016, a tumultuous era in inter-Korean relations defined by both tensions and diplomacy. Hivonnet talks about how U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats against North Korea transformed into summit talks between leader Kim Jong Un, […]
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    57 mins