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HARDtalk: Kenneth Bae, Former North Korea detainee

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Kenneth Bae, Former North Korea detainee

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Kenneth Bae, Former North Korea detainee

Stephen Sackur talks to Kenneth Bae, an American who spent two years in a Pyongyang prison

Stephen Sackur speaks to Kenneth Bae, an American who spent two years in a Pyongyang prison. What does his experience tell us about the world's most secretive country?

Relations between the United States and North Korea have long been difficult. The recent toe-to-toe confrontation between Donald Trump and Kim Jong UN raised fears of a conflagration on the Korean Peninsula. Stephen Sackur speaks to Kenneth Bae, an American Christian missionary of Korean descent who was arrested inside North Korea and spent two years in a Pyongyang prison. What does his experience tell us about the world's most secretive country?

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