May 19, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.

North Korea News Podcast

What to make of North Korea’s historic week of missile tests – Ep. 261

The NK News team breaks down growing hostility on the peninsula that has pushed tensions to highest level in years

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsNovember 8, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

What North Korea can learn from Southeast Asia – Ep. 260

Economist Halin Han discusses how Vietnam and others’ transition to capitalism can serve as a model for the DPRK

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsNovember 1, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

Africa to North Korea: Growing up under Kim Il Sung’s fatherly care – Ep. 259

Monique Macias shares her experience growing up in Pyongyang under the guardianship of North Korea’s founding leader

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsOctober 25, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

Rollerblading through Kim Il Sung Square – Ep. 258

Charles Thirlwall discusses the explosion of international business interest in North Korea at the turn of the century

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsOctober 18, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

Are North Korea’s missile tests building up to something big? – Ep. 257

The NK News team discusses DPRK state media’s weapons reveals, a missile over Japan, US-ROK responses and more

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsOctober 11, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

A peace-first, pro-diplomacy approach to North Korea – Ep. 256

Christine Ahn and Colleen Moore discuss how women across the world are working to formally end the Korean War

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsOctober 4, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

What the CIA knows (and doesn’t know) about North Korea – Ep. 255

Soo Kim explains how analysts interpret information coming out of Pyongyang and find signals in the noise

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsSeptember 27, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

Unplugging from the North Korean matrix – Ep. 254

Seohyun Lee discusses her life in an elite DPRK family and how her view of the country radically changed while abroad

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsSeptember 20, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

How nuclear weapons help North Korea punch above its weight – Ep. 253

Sung-Yoon Lee discusses grim realities of the Kim Jong Un regime and why denuclearization summit talks are pointless

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsSeptember 13, 2022
North Korea News Podcast

North Korea declares COVID victory and lashes out at US-ROK drills – Ep. 252

The NK News team discusses the biggest events in August, from DPRK’s COVID ‘victory’ to an attack on a defector-activist

Jacco ZwetslootJacco Zwetsloot | NK NewsSeptember 6, 2022
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