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North Korea: 'A brainwashed society'

29/08/2017 GMT

BBC News - HARDtalk, Kenneth Bae

Stephen Sackur speaks to Kenneth Bae, an American Christian missionary of Korean descent.

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. 

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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