K-Pop, fancy pianos, and plenty of soju. Despite increased Western sanctions, quality of life for much of North Korea's elite is improving. But during one particularly boozy dinner in Pyongyang last month, New Yorker writer Evan Osnos heard something particularly chilling from one of his handful of minders: Nuclear war with the U.S. would be survivable. It m ... Show More
Apr 25
Cuba's Trump standoff and economic crisis with Michael Bustamante
Historian Michael Bustamante joins Ian Bremmer to discuss Cuba's economic freefall, Trump's end game, and the hopes of Cuban Americans. This week, Ian Bremmer sits down with University of Miami historian and Cuba expert Michael Bustamante to make sense of the US-Cuba standoff. Cu ... Show More
24m 50s
Apr 18
North Korea's nuclear gamble pays off, with the WSJ's Jonathan Cheng
North Korea has nuclear weapons, a succession plan hiding in plain sight, and a personality cult that has outlasted Stalin's and Mao's combined. Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau chief Jonathan Cheng argues the world keeps misreading Pyongyang because it insists on reducing it ... Show More
28m 13s
Apr 11
Assessing the Iran War's "structural damage" with Harvard economist Gita Gopinath
Rising energy prices, higher inflation, and growing economic uncertainty — a Harvard economist says the fallout from the Iran war is already being felt. On the GZERO World Podcast, Ian Bremmer sits down with Harvard economist and former IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath ... Show More
32m 29s
Jun 2024
Faut-il craindre l'alliance entre la Russie et la Corée du Nord?
<p>C'est une alliance qui inquiète l'Occident: mercredi 19 juin, Vladimir Poutine et Kim Jong-un ont signé un accord de défense mutuelle. Pyongyang va fournir des armes et des bras à la Russie, en échange de quoi Moscou fournira nourriture, technologies et soutien diplomatique su ... Show More
30m 34s
Jul 2019
Not Messing Around: North Korea, The Death Penalty, Heatwave
North Korea is playing with fire – literally. Just a couple weeks after President Trump visited Kim Jong Un in North Korea and agreed to resume denuclearization talks, North Korea tested two missiles this morning. Back in the US, Attorney General Bill Barr is resuming the death p ... Show More
11m 45s
May 2018
Alan Woods: Oh! What a Lovely Peace
Alan Woods - editor of In Defence of Marxism - discusses the North Korean peace talks, which US President Donald Trump has been quick to claim credit for. A year ago, the media was alight with hysterical warnings about the imminent threat of a Third World War, involving mutually ... Show More
15m 55s
Dec 2021
Paroles d'ambassadeur #1 - L'ambassadeur de la république de Corée en France
Nouveau format "Paroles d'ambassadeur". Pascal Boniface reçoit des ambassadeurs étrangers en poste en France pour évoquer les sujets diplomatiques propres à ces pays, la situation politique interne et leur place dans le monde. <br>
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Aujourd'hui, il reçoit S.E Dae-jong Yoo, am ... Show More
9m 51s