This week we slip across the 38th parallel for a look at the most secretive totalitarian state on the planet - the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Living on an almost permanent war footing, starving its citizens to build nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and being ruled by a family that make what the Windsors did to Meghan look positively welcoming, the aptly named Hermit Kingdom is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a bad haircut.
Welcome to North Korea, the last place on Earth where you want to give your tour guide the slip.

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