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World Service,16 Jun 2014,11 mins

American Guns and a North Korean Restaurant

From Our Own Correspondent

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Beth McLeod goes to a firing range in the US, as guns are offered as prizes as part of a county sheriff election campaign. Politicians are finding firearms prizes are really pulling in the punters. Lessons at the firing range are not included - usually. Journalists are fascinated by North Korea. It is so difficult to get into that many fall back on combing through titbits of information - like the rumours that Kim Jung Un ordered all men to copy his haircut - for indications as to where the new leadership is taking the country. But not our Ed Butler. Intent on gleaning state secrets, he manages to gain entry to one of a chain of North Korean restaurants.

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