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Abducted by North Korea

28/04/2018 GMT

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One man’s quest to rescue his father from North Korea

One man’s quest to rescue his father from North Korea.

Hwaing In Chul was two years old when his father was abducted by North Korea, following a 1969 plane hijack which landed in the communist country. He tells Weekend about his long quest to find and free his father. 

Also in the programme: A look at people who identify as “incel”, a term for men who live in “involuntary celibacy”; and Turkey’s task of educating the thousands of Syrian refugee children.

(Image: The North Korean flag with barbed wire in its foreground in a photo from 22nd March 2017. Credit: Chris Jung/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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