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and air fields near atlanta emergency doctor mike flick eager is embarking on a special mission destination. north korea. they said this is a medical evacuation. we need you to go and bring him out a mission to retrieve u.s. citizen on a warm beer last seen in public 14 months earlier. a prisoner of the regime of north korea warmongering between rivals, kim jong il and donald trump, is at its peak. today will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen a silent mission on a difficult route. we elected not to use south korea, china, or russia to help us plan. days later on a warm beer is back home, but he's fatally ill.

severe brain damage says the coroner, cause unknown. was it torture? for me as parents become ons in a game played by president trump, who later announces that the north korean leader knew nothing about warm beer. all i can do is shake right to the right. when the state department sends emergency dr. mike flick, if you're to north korea, his plane of choice is still in africa, the carrier phoenix. they're often evacuated bola patients. but for this mission,

lucky girl insists on the best plane and the best team. he doesn't even tell his family where he's headed so i didn't tell him exactly where i did until the mission was over because it was becoming more and more apparent that this was a special mission. i told him i was going to korea to pick up a patient. i did not say north korea. phoenix ayers headquarters, a 2nd team led by chief operator dent thomson has to solve a logistical problem. the plane will not be allowed to refuel in pyongyang. currently there are certain sanctions that are in place between the us government and the north korean government. and for us to pay for anything that we would have to get special permits, which we simply did not have time to do. on the morning of june 10th 2017, a saturday, the plane takes off on its mission,

is joined by 2 male nurses and 2 u.s. state department representatives. with refueling stops in montana and alaska, the our flight takes them halfway around the globe to northern japan. and hopefully on to pyongyang, to the outskirts of cincinnati, ohio. on a warm beer grew up here in the suburb of wyoming. and i'm glad 1st. his parents don't answer our inquiries. they aren't seeking the spotlight. the town has modest and affluent neighborhoods. auto warmness father runs a medium sized business auto. the oldest of 3 children is the pride of both his

family and his high school graduation. he holds the commencement address his future is mapped out college in virginia, a scholarship, a planned semester abroad in hong kong. but 1st, a new year's adventure, north korea, he books through a chinese travel agency, its slogan, we take you to destinations, your mother would rather you stay away from he joins an international group. they have a great time. he's left with an indelible mark on me was such a look at a lot of what was a lot of people who were on that so a little absolutely, absolutely devastated. every year the

agency touts their dazzling travel highlight the alcohol flows freely. the tour guides make sure everyone is in a good mood ahead. nights are long and pyongyang's only hotel for foreigners. those group has fun too. it isn't clear whether they also took on the challenge of the forbidden 5th floor, but many tourists have done so in the past. it is the staff's floor with hallways full of propaganda slogans. you know

the hotel surveillance center is also located here. tourists are usually just admonished me to play, act innocent, and run on this new year's eve. however, the cameras capture someone taking a poster from the wall. it is 1. 57 am and it is according to the trial to warm beer. instead of leaving north korea with the others on january 2nd, he's taken into custody on c.r. the simply other top of the show to go out. so come away with a laugh and lee said, that's the last we'll have a sea of you on because we got on so well off also syndromes and just chuckled at me. but of course there was a huge irony of my way. she didn't know what was going to hop a book that was the last time anyone else. they still have 2 months later, north korea's propaganda televises. a staged confession, untidily. they can't open the government of the d.v.r.

for her due to this. please. i didn't made the worst mistake of my writing, but these never should have allowed myself to be the united states administration to commit a crime in this country. a show trial with obviously coerced statements, perhaps in exchange for a pardon. 16 days later, warm beer discovers that his hopes were in vain. he is publicly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities. his condition from this point on remains uncertain. just shortly before takeoff, dr. mike flook eager is given the few details known about warm beers condition. i

had one small written note, one paragraph about his condition, saying he was in a coma. that being french of hospital. that's really all i knew except that he had been hospitalized for 15 months. was looking, are worried about the threat of war. not really. he said, i think i had felt that the relationship between north korea and the us had been bad for a while. no, i thought if this door had opened to bring a warm beer back and there in negotiations to ease things a little bit. 7 in fact, north korea's sudden diplomatic efforts surprises the u.s. negotiators. mickey bergman is one of them. since warm beer is arrested, he had been trying to gain access to him with the help of u.n.

contacts. bergman works together with bill richardson, former governor of new mexico and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. . hardly any other team is as experienced in dealing with pyongyang as they are. in general, the only available the rick channel that we have of the people to represent them here at the united nations. in this case, the individuals of people that know the governor from before they know me from before. so that's of the record channel. but at the end of the day, they are not decision makers. and if you want to get to a deal, when you want to get to an understanding, you have to be there in person. so the 1st priority is ok. how do we get ourselves invited to north korea to make sure that we can talk to the people who can make decisions about this? it was different in that you know, that auto warm beer by the north koreans was considered something special. because he was from the midwest,

he was an attractive young man and he was an all-american. boy. you knew this one was special because it got a lot of t.v. coverage from north korea. the trial where the young man was in trauma. he was very upset. he was carried around and you knew that this was a very sensitive time and united states north korea relations. so the north koreans you knew early on would use them as a bargaining chip to get something back from the united states. they always use political prisoners as bargaining chips. they want something in return. would that be typical that u.s. inmates suffered physical talk show of physical violence? the north koreans are very tough on interrogations, and their prisons are not ideal. sometimes they make these political prisoners work in the fields. all labor is involved. do they specifically torture?

i don't have any evidence that they do. did they treat the prisoners? well, no. i think where the north koreans fall short is just an international standard of allowing consular visits. sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. it depends on the prize of the person or that they hope they want to dramatize it as much as they can. the insiders call these contacts between north korea's u.n. representatives and people like richard's the new york channel. for a long time. it's been the only connection between the 2 countries here at the palm restaurant. it is kept alive with steak and lobster over meetings that take place every few weeks. mickey bergman believes he's close to a breakthrough. he's told to come to pyongyang. we called the invitation.

and when i went there, even on the plane on the way, i did have that fantasy in my mind that i'm coming back with photo swedish diplomats also pressure pyongyang. there is a meeting of diplomats and all slow, but no progress is made. i was told that look, don't, don't be disparaged. there's a saying in korea that it takes a felon hacks to bring down the treaty and my response was, i hope i don't need to come back again. however, more times than all to get it happen. but i get the message. the cameras jeem seems to buy time, keen to use warm beer as an asset. kim won't negotiate until he feels protected by his new nuclear weapons. get the result at the un general assembly. north

korea's delegation ignores both the threats and the insults made by the newly elected us president. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. north korea is still studying donald trump's behavior waiting for new insights. the obama administration and north korean relationship was not good. the policy was strategic patience, more sanctions, more sanctions, the north koreans. they weren't happy with that obviously. and they saw in a new administration, well maybe you know, we show that we're ready to deal and ought to warm beer is, is the closest think the to a concession. but what was it that convinced beyond yang to allow ailing on a warm beer to be evacuated? does the regime believe america will be grateful?

or is warm beer already so weak that they just don't want him to die as their prisoner asks himself the same questions until his crew suffers the 1st setback. when they reach the porro, that evening, their flight seems doom. the local flight control center doesn't have the information, it means the plane is grounded. they told me that the japanese air traffic control because there was no relationship with north korea. did not want to let us fly directly to north korea that what they would have to send us to another route to a country that they did have a relationship with. and that at that point we would fly and call back up to the u.s. department of state and got a very high level person on the phone. and i said, here's a.