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Abducted by 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)

53 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 Apr 201806:06GMT

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  • Sat 28 Apr 201806:06GMT