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The Fifth Floor: Message in a bottle to North Korea

The incredible story of a North Korean defector who's been trying to reach people back home through an unusual - but effective - method

Park Jung-oh defected to South Korea from the North 26 years ago. Hearing how North Koreans in the Hwanghae Province suffer from food shortage, he started throwing bottles filled with rice and a USB stick into the Yellow Sea, hoping they would land on North Korean shores. Did his messages ever reach anyone? Rachel Lee from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Korean brings us this extraordinary story. Plus, Madina Dahiru Maishanu, the youngest presenter at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hausa, shares stories from her award-winning show, Mahangar Zamani, and Thomas Naadi tells us about Stevie Wonder's love affair with Ghana.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)

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