Historic Korean summit and goat island

The History Hour

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History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Jean H. Lee, an American journalist who has covered both North and South Korea extensively. Jean is also the co-host of the BBC World Service podcast, The Lazarus Heist. She tells us more about the relationship between the two countries.

The programme begins with the historic meeting between North and South Korea's leaders almost 50 years after the Korean War. We hear from Sameh Elbarky who was in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square on the day the army killed hundreds of protestors following a military coup.

In the second half of the programme, British black activists recount how they protested against racism within the local bus company in Bristol in 1963. One of the first Chinese students to arrive in the US in the early 1980s following the Cultural Revolution shares her experience. Finally, how the Mexican island of Guadalupe was saved from being destroyed by hungry goats.

Contributors: Jean H. Lee - American journalist and the co-host of the BBC's The Lazarus Heist podcast. Professor Chung-in Moon - South Korean special delegate. Sameh Elbarky - survivor of the Rabaa massacre. Paul Stephenson - spokesperson for the Bristol Bus Boycott. Roy Hackett - Bristol Bus Boycott protestor. Zha Jianying - Chinese American writer. Professor Exequiel Ezcurra - conservationist.

(Photo: North and South Korean leaders meet at the summit in 2000. Credit: Reuters)

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0:00.0	Unexpected Elements Elements is all about finding the surprising science angles to everyday news.
0:06.0	Mind absolutely blood. Amazing to me. That's Unexpected elements from the BBC World Service.
0:12.0	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast with me Max Pearson a collection of this
0:24.8	week's witness history episodes from the BBC World Service this week from 2013 a
0:29.8	massacre of protesters on the streets of Cairo. Even soushant of badges have been written to describe what happened in the massacre.
0:39.0	They will not cover what happened in the impact of thousands of families.
0:44.3	Plus, one of the first students from Communist China allowed to study in the US in the 1980s,
0:50.1	and how wildlife on the Mexican island of Guadalupe was almost wiped out by feral goats.
0:56.2	The other have been described as a dead ecosystem, like a walking dead, like a zombie ecosystem.
1:01.4	It was definitely somewhat apocalyptic,
1:04.5	lesser, very beautiful and very sad at the same time.
1:08.3	That's coming up later in the podcast. But first we're heading to the Korean
1:12.3	Peninsula where in June 2000 a historic meeting took place
1:16.4	between the South Korean President Kim Li Jun and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-I.
1:21.2	This was the first inter-Korean summit since fighting between the North and South in the Korean War
1:26.6	ended almost 50 years earlier. Technically the two sides are still at war and the dividing line between them is one of the most heavily
1:33.8	fortified on Earth. Professor Chung-in Moon from South Korea was invited by his
1:39.6	president to be part of the special delegation at that summit and he's been telling Jill
1:43.9	Kursley about his experience across the 38th parallel in North Korea.
1:57.0	There are enemies, but they were sitting together, eating together, and toasting together, singing the unification song together.
2:00.0	I have been working on his sunshine policy therefore I was well versed into the in
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