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Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,

a space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today, Kim Jong-un, How did Rocket Man and Donald Trump become friends?

They've got the two most distinctive haircuts in the world. They used to trade

insults in the media. Rocket man should have been handled a long time ago.

But at the weekend it was all smiles as President Trump made an impromptu historic visit

to the North Korean border.

Stepping across that line was a great honor. A lot of progress has been made. A lot of

friendships have been made and this has been in particular a great friendship.

United States and North Korea are still technically at war with each other. But Donald Trump became the first

sitting US president to set foot in North Korea after meeting Kim Jong-un in the area

dividing North and South Korea known as the demilitarized zone.

Now it's hard to know what to think of secretive North Korea since the fighting

between the Communist North and the American-backed South ended back in the 1950s

the two sides have taken radically different paths. The South opened and increasingly

rich the North closed off and poor.

If you look at a satellite image of Korea taken at night, the North is in complete darkness,

surrounded by the bright lights of South Korea and China.

One woman who does know what life in that darkness is like is Jean Lee.

Life is very difficult on the ground even for the elites.

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