12 September 2019
Episode 1959
30 minutes
Journalist and China specialist Isabel Hilton is in the studio with John Everard, the UK’s former ambassador to North Korea, to discuss the latest on Taiwan, the details of Operation Yellowhammer and South Korea’s objection to a particular Japanese flag at the Olympics.
12 September 2019
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