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"I Want to Go Back to North Korea"
Kim Ryen-hi is a North Korean defector who's trying to return home.
Four years ago Kim Ryen-hi left her family in North Korea to visit her cousin in China. She ended up defecting to South Korea. But now she's become the only known defector to try to return to the North - a country known as one of the world's most secretive and repressive states. She says her defection was all a terrible mistake, and she has gone to great lengths to get back. But her efforts have got her into serious trouble with the South Korean authorities as she tells Matthew Bannister.
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