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World Service,11 Oct 2021,49 mins

A former North Korean spy chief speaks

Newsday

Available for over a year

We get rare insight into the operations of the secretive regime - including drug deals, arms deals and plans to assassinate political opponents. Elections in Iraq, held early in bid to quell further violence - but is there any prospect of real change? And ahead of the upcoming COP climate conference in Glasgow – we hear from the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, about his hopes for the talks.

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