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World Service,24 Dec 2019,53 mins

East Asia's power houses meet

Newsday

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The leaders of Japan and South Korea - at loggerheads on a range of issues - are meeting in the Chinese city of Chengdu for bilateral talks as well as a joint meeting with the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang. We report on the effect the house arrest of an opposition activist in Russia is having on her teenage daughter. And a North Korean defector describes how he made his escape.

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