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This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reported on Christopher Ahn, an American citizen embroiled in an international case involving the United States, Spain, and North Korea.

Ahn, who's part of an activist group that broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, in 2019, says he was attempting to help North Korean embassy staff defect.

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North Korea says the incident was an attempted kidnapping that amounted to a "terrorist attack."

To understand the stakes of Ahn's decision — and why North Koreas may want to defect from their own homeland — we turned to some of 60 Minutes' decades-long coverage of North Korea.

Reporting on the hermit kingdom is challenging; North Korea is one of the world's most isolated countries. But over the years, 60 Minutes has found a way inside. 

From images of hospitals without food or medicine to a look at the continuing military threat the country poses, here are some of the highlights of 60 Minutes' North Korea co