To understand why American Christopher Ahn risked his life to help North Korean diplomats defect — and why North Koreas may want to surrender their own homeland — we turned to some of 60 Minutes' decades-long coverage of North Korea.
This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported on Christopher Ahn, an American citizen embroiled in an international case involving America, Spain, and North Korea . Ahn, who's part of an activist group that broke into the North Korea n embassy in Madrid, Spain, in 2019, says he was attempting to help North Korea n embassy staff defect. North Korea says the incident was an attempted kidnapping that amounted to a 'terrorist attack.
When she asked a student if concentration camps, like those used in Nazi Germany, still exist, the student responded: 'Yes, I think such camps still exist. As long as there are American Nazis, there will be secret places where innocent people are murdered. Places like that exist in America.'2005: 39 Years, 6 Months, 4 DaysIn 2005, Scott Pelley got an unusual look at North Korea: through the eyes of an American who had lived there for four decades.
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