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In this episode of Minutes With, we spoke to the remarkable Timothy Cho, a North Korean defector, about his two-time escape from the country run by dictator Kim Jong Un. Timothy explains what it is like to grow up in a 'prison country', where wearing jeans or watching TV could have you killed in a gruesome public execution. Timothy's parents abandon him as a child, leaving him living on the streets and battling starvation during the famine. Incredibly, he manages to escape but is captured by the Chinese Army and brutally tortured for his defection. His incredible journey to freedom ends with the actions of a 13-year-old student who saved his life and granted him the chance to live in democracy.

2026-05-06 12:48:40 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 13:26:40 +0000 UTC(38m)
Minutes With

Minutes With

In this episode of Minutes With, we sat down with former spy Paul Hughes who gives us an insight into his varied life tracking terrorists in the Middle East and on counter-terror operations in the UK. We hear about his dangerous mission to find Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan after 9/11. Paul explains the tactics used by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban hiding in the mountains, as well as his terrifying experience of coming face to face with Saddam Hussein.

2026-05-06 10:47:12 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 11:06:13 +0000 UTC(19m)