Developments in one of the oldest cold cases in the Netherlands: ‘Possible link with North Korea’

Ten years ago, Telegraaf reporter Marcel Vink first heard about European women who had possibly been kidnapped to North Korea. There are also two Dutch people among them. In the podcast Kidnapped to North Korea, Marcel embarks on a complex search: who could these women be? The reporter visits Remco Breuker, the Netherlands’ North Korea expert. How seriously does he take the story that two Dutch women are being held in the most closed dictatorship in the world? Marcel also comes into contact with a relative of Leidy Kaspersma, a young Dutch woman who disappeared without a trace in the rugged southwest of Ireland in 1978. It is one of the oldest cold cases in the Netherlands, in which not a shred of new information has been received for almost fifty years. Thanks to a tip from her niece, the journalist decides to investigate the case further. Could Leidy be the Dutch woman seen in North Korea in the late 1970s? And who may have played a role in this? Episode 2 can now also be listened to via Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Subscribe to the podcast and receive an automatic notification as soon as a new episode is online.

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