Voices From the Hidden Kingdom is a podcast about the North Korean people, focusing on their stories, experiences, knowledge, and hopes for the future of the peninsula. NKFI is a registered faith-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization providing advocacy, support, and access to resources to North Korean refugees around the world. It is our honor to be entrusted with this content by our North Korean friends in order to inform the public, and show the humanity behind the voices.
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New Korea Foundation International, Host: Kelly Sadler
Episode 8: The Truth About Juche and Food Insecurity in North Korea
Join me in learning, first hand, what the pre-90's food system was like, food accessibility around the great famine (The Arduous Walk), and how deep the issue runs.
16 Sept 2026
Episode 7: Food Insecurity, Part1 - There will NEVER be Enough
Welcome to the first of several discussions around food insecurity in North Korea. In this episode I provide you, the listener, with sobering facts around the truth of food insecurity the people of North Korea experience.
28 Jul 2026
Episode 6: Mental Health, Healing, and Hope for the Future.
In this extra long episode, we discuss issues around North Korean mental health, misconceptions in healing, how the world can help, and our hopes for the future.
23 Jun 2026
Episode 5: Culture, Identity, the Arts, and Unification.
Through my in-person interview with North Korean musician Eunju Yoo, we discuss the Arts and unique culture of North Korea. We touch on access to instruments and education, the kind of music taught, the importance of preserving traditional folk arts and music, how music has been used to maintain control of the people, and the need for propaganda to be archived for historical purposes but removed from Korean society.
10 Jun 2026
Episode 4: Dying to live. Living to serve
I this episode I sit down with NKFI Founder and President, Kenneth Bae, to discuss his heart for the North Korean people, his time in a North Korean prison, and how his experiences are manifesting today to serve and free the North Korean people, and fight for the unification of the peninsula.
27 May 2026
The Journey
In this episode of Voices from the Hidden Kingdom, I find myself in Seoul, South Korea, visiting the NKFI office there. My friend "Alex" stopped by, and we sat down to have a conversation about his physical, mental, and emotional journey from North Korea to traveling the world.
6 May 2026
Gender Burden and Invisibility
While women world-wide carry a heavy gender burden, mental load, and generalized invisibility, the women of North Korea are fighting a battle that most of the world will never know about, both in their country and in neighboring countries they escape to. Join me for a difficult, yet factual conversation around the first hand experience of a North Korean woman I know, hear about her journey, and get a deeper understanding of what we do at NKFI.
28 Apr 2026
116 Years of Oppression
Though we typically only think about the modern day oppression of the North Korean people, they have lived under occupation, oppression, neglect, and more for more than 116 years. Through this episode I speak with a North Korean friend about the history, perspectives, and facts around the unknown concept of freedom.
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