Jeongmin Kim: The importance of Track 2 diplomacy on North Korea

On this week’s episode, NK News Correspondent Jeongmin Kim discusses her time at the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting on international security policy that has been held in the German city since 1963. She discusses the conference’s focus on the war in Ukraine and North Korean security threats relating to its ties with Russia. She also talks about the fallout from Washington’s backchannel talks with Moscow and concerns in South Korean circles that the Trump administration could cut a deal with Pyongyang without Seoul’s involvement.  Jeongmin attended the Munich Security Conference as part of the Munich Young Leaders 2025 delegation through partial funding by the Körber-Stiftung Foundation. About the podcast: The North Korea News Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Jacco Zwetsloot exclusively for NK News, covering all things DPRK — from news to extended interviews with leading experts and analysts in the field, along with insight from our very own journalists. NK News subscribers can listen to this and other exclusive episodes from their preferred podcast player by accessing the private podcast feed. For more detailed instructions, please see the step-by-step guide at nknews.org/private-feed.