May 07, 2024

About the author

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.

More articles by 'Jacco Zwetsloot'

What’s so funny about North Korea? NKNews Podcast ep.34
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What’s so funny about North Korea? NKNews Podcast ep.34

Historian David Shuster explores humor, the limits of satire, and sex symbols in DPRK culture

What’s so funny about North Korea? NKNews Podcast ep.34
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot August 27, 2018
How women are driving change in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.33
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How women are driving change in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.33

Bronwen Dalton discusses gender and social transformation in the DPRK

How women are driving change in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.33
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot August 19, 2018
Change from below? Empowering the North Korean people – NKNews Podcast ep.32
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Change from below? Empowering the North Korean people – NKNews Podcast ep.32

LiNK's Sokeel Park discusses how a grassroots social revolution is taking place in the DPRK

Change from below? Empowering the North Korean people – NKNews Podcast ep.32
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot August 12, 2018
Roundtable: war remains, sanctions, and N. Korean movies – NKNews Podcast ep.31
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Roundtable: war remains, sanctions, and N. Korean movies – NKNews Podcast ep.31

The NK News Seoul team rounds up some of the latest DPRK-related developments

Roundtable: war remains, sanctions, and N. Korean movies – NKNews Podcast ep.31
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot August 5, 2018
What fish prices teach us about the North Korean economy – NKNews Podcast ep.30
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What fish prices teach us about the North Korean economy – NKNews Podcast ep.30

Fresh from three weeks in-country, Peter Ward discusses markets and money in the DPRK

What fish prices teach us about the North Korean economy – NKNews Podcast ep.30
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot July 30, 2018
An eight-step guide to North Korean provocation – NKNews Podcast ep.29
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An eight-step guide to North Korean provocation – NKNews Podcast ep.29

Retired LTC Steve Tharp says current negotiations are unlikely to bear fruit

An eight-step guide to North Korean provocation – NKNews Podcast ep.29
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot July 22, 2018
A Conversation with Two North Korean Refugees – NKNews Podcast ep.28
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A Conversation with Two North Korean Refugees – NKNews Podcast ep.28

Former DPRK citizens share their take on the recent detente, stories of adjusting to life in South

A Conversation with Two North Korean Refugees – NKNews Podcast ep.28
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot July 16, 2018
Bypassing information control in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.27
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Bypassing information control in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.27

Nat Kretchun discusses how people in the DPRK get around the state's rigid censorship

Bypassing information control in North Korea – NKNews Podcast Ep.27
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot July 10, 2018
Political risk and investment in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.26
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Political risk and investment in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.26

Three experts discuss foreign investments and the future of the DPRK market

Political risk and investment in North Korea – NKNews Podcast ep.26
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot July 2, 2018
Live from Pyongyang, it’s… daily life! – NKNews Podcast ep.25
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Live from Pyongyang, it’s… daily life! – NKNews Podcast ep.25

Ambreen Mustafa of the Pakistan embassy in Pyongyang shares her daily life as a foreign diplomat

Live from Pyongyang, it’s… daily life! – NKNews Podcast ep.25
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot June 25, 2018