THERE is a particularly astonishing scene in a National Geographic documentary Inside North Korea, which gives rare insight into life in the reclusive state under the leadership then of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong il.
In the footage, an elderly lady is captured breaking into tears over a diagnosis that she was going blind.
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