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Jacco Zwetsloot

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.

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How to engage North Korea on human rights  – NK News Podcast ep.57
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How to engage North Korea on human rights – NK News Podcast ep.57

The UN's Signe Poulsen discusses the COI, sanctions, and working to improve life in the DPRK

How to engage North Korea on human rights  – NK News Podcast ep.57
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot February 11, 2019
North Korea: a month in review – NK News Podcast ep.56
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North Korea: a month in review – NK News Podcast ep.56

NK News CEO Chad O'Carroll discusses a busy January on the peninsula

North Korea: a month in review – NK News Podcast ep.56
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot February 7, 2019
How to talk so North Korea will listen – NK News Podcast ep.55
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How to talk so North Korea will listen – NK News Podcast ep.55

International Crisis Group's Chris Green discusses diplomacy, inter-Korean ties, and sanctions

How to talk so North Korea will listen – NK News Podcast ep.55
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot January 28, 2019
Kim and Trump’s pen pal diplomacy: a roundtable – NK News Podcast ep.54
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Kim and Trump’s pen pal diplomacy: a roundtable – NK News Podcast ep.54

The NK News Seoul team talks summits, sanctions, and meetings in Stockholm

Kim and Trump’s pen pal diplomacy: a roundtable – NK News Podcast ep.54
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot January 23, 2019
Ambassador Mark Lippert on U.S.-Korea relations – NK News Podcast ep.53
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Ambassador Mark Lippert on U.S.-Korea relations – NK News Podcast ep.53

Mark Lippert talks denuclearization, inter-Korean relations, and the future of American diplomacy

Ambassador Mark Lippert on U.S.-Korea relations – NK News Podcast ep.53
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot January 7, 2019
Ringing in a new year in North Korea – NK News Podcast ep.52
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Ringing in a new year in North Korea – NK News Podcast ep.52

The NK News Seoul team discuss Kim's speech, a NYE party in Pyongyang, and what to expect in 2019

Ringing in a new year in North Korea – NK News Podcast ep.52
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot January 2, 2019
What women’s health teaches us about gender equality – NK News Podcast ep.51
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What women’s health teaches us about gender equality – NK News Podcast ep.51

Teodora Gyupchanova discusses life for the second sex in the DPRK

What women’s health teaches us about gender equality – NK News Podcast ep.51
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot December 24, 2018
Our top 5 most popular episodes in 2018 – NKNews Podcast Ep. 50
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Our top 5 most popular episodes in 2018 – NKNews Podcast Ep. 50

From Anna Fifield to Thae Yong-ho, these NK News podcasts were the most popular so far

Our top 5 most popular episodes in 2018 – NKNews Podcast Ep. 50
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot December 16, 2018
Will Kim Jong Un come to Seoul this year? – NKNews Podcast Ep.49
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Will Kim Jong Un come to Seoul this year? – NKNews Podcast Ep.49

The NK News team talks summit prospects, seven years since Kim Jong Il's death, and French spies

Will Kim Jong Un come to Seoul this year? – NKNews Podcast Ep.49
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot December 10, 2018
North Korea: the case for optimism – NKNews Podcast Ep.48
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North Korea: the case for optimism – NKNews Podcast Ep.48

Yonsei's John Delury talks peace, reform, and why Kim Jong Un may be different from his predecessors

North Korea: the case for optimism – NKNews Podcast Ep.48
Jacco Zwetsloot
Jacco Zwetsloot December 2, 2018
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