Windmills and cheese

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Stefan Burckhardt, the director of Agape international’s North Korean programme, talks to swissinfo.ch's Susan Vogel-Misicka about progress being made there.

This content was published on March 27, 2012 - 15:45

Susan Vogel-Misicka, swissinfo.ch

Windmills and cheese

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