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cancer ow cancer now have a 9596 early breast cancer now have a 95% chance of surviving to at least five years. welcome back. in extraordinary report from north korea, and exclusive. that pair it back country is in a period of isolation. it s been over three years hence it sealed its borders in response to the pandemic, no one has been able to enter or leave the country. for a long time even supplies of food and medicine were stopped. this is likely to have created some of the harshest conditions north koreans have ever had to live through. three people living in north korea have risked their lives to tell the bbc what is actually happening. let s go to the newsroom, jean mckenzie has this exclusive story for us. it is quite extraordinary to hear from people like this. tell us first of all, how you got this story and the sorts of challenges you had getting