On air: Inside North Korea
| 13:10 UK time, Friday, 26 November 2010
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We've discussed North Korea a lot in the last week after it shelled a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing at least four people. Now Pyongyang has warned that joint military exercises by the South and the US scheduled for Sunday are pushing the region to "the brink of war".
Many of you are asking questions about the country that we can't answer, as access is so difficult. So for today's programme we're going to assemble a group of people who have visited the country, spent time there and can give us a real insight into life inside one of the most secretive nations on earth.
Sarah Wang writing in Slate magazine says
"Faced with these anxious visitors, the North Korean guards were calm, determined, and patient. It took them two hours to inspect our luggage when the group entered the country and four hours to go through every picture on our cameras-and to delete the ones they deemed improper-when we left. They apparently didn't know that it is easy to switch out memory cards."
Writing in the Guardian
Information is so sparse that interpreting North Korea is not so much like reading tea leaves in a saucer as examining them while they float in a milky brew.
Whatever questions you have post them here and we'll try and get some answers on the programme
