Ask me about North Korea
If you are looking for a short but high quality North Korea podcast, seek no further!
North Korea certainly deserves its title of the Hermit Kingdom of East Asia. Despite more and more opportunities to get insights into its daily life, for many that country still remains a riddle wrapped up in an enigma.
North Korea is a secretive country – and, like most secretive countries, it is especially susceptible to cliche-ridden descriptions. Some such cliches are well-founded, while others are seriously misleading or outdated…
Andrei Lankov, Director of Korea Risk Group
I am sure you might have heard so many mind-boggling things about the DPRK, ranging from ‘North Korea has no COVID-19 cases’ to ‘Kim Jong-un executes an official with a flamethrower‘. If you have no time for all the messy misleading articles about the DPRK in tabloids, welcome to my podcast – I explain things quickly and with references to factual evidence. As a North Korea watcher, in this podcast I do my best to provide short but detailed responses to the most common and most puzzling questions about this country.
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