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How to Feed North Korea

The UN’s World Food Programme visits North Korea

David Beasley, the head of the United Nation’s World Food Programme has just visited North Korea. He talks to Weekend about how the UN can help its ten million undernourished people and if a possible easing of sanctions could help.

Also in the programme: Kenya’s deadly dam; and the legendary chocolatiers of Damascus, who are now in exile.

(Image: An undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on 13th September 2016 showing Kim Jong-Un (centre) at a farm an undisclosed location in North Korea. Credit: KCNA/AFP/Getty Images)

53 minutes

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Sat 12 May 201805:06GMT

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  • Sat 12 May 201805:06GMT