60 Minutes: Mar 28

On 60 Minutes this Sunday, Sarah Abo reports on the Royal Family and Tom Steinfort on a family seeking justice from North Korea.

The Empire Strikes Back
There’s little doubt Her Majesty the Queen was not amused watching her grandson and his Hollywood wife embarrass the rest of the Royal Family in their recent tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. The question is whether the senior royals needed to be so publicly shamed to fully understand the accusations being made against them. As Sarah Abo reports, in this ugly family squabble there are now clear battlelines. On one side, Harry and Meghan supporters who laud the couple’s every move to be inclusive and modern. And on the other, the firm belief that there’s no need at all to soften the stiff upper lips of royalty.
Reporter: Sarah Abo
Producer: Natalie Clancy

Rogue One
Like a petulant child who doesn’t get its way, North Korea likes to throw tantrums. A few days ago the rogue state reminded the world how troublesome it is by launching several short-range missiles in the first weapons tests since President Joe Biden took office, sending a sharp message to the new US administration. But behind the aggression, dictator Kim Jong-un is in serious trouble as his regime teeters on bankruptcy. Tom Steinfort, one of the few western journalists to have reported from the hermit kingdom on multiple occasions, says North Korea desperately needs cash and is willing to do almost anything to get it, even selling weapons and drugs on the black market. Now though, these long-suspected crimes have been fully exposed by the unlikely combination of an extraordinary hidden-camera sting and a heartbroken family determined to get justice for their son, who travelled to North Korea for an adventure holiday but ended up imprisoned and tortured to death.
Reporter: Tom Steinfort
Producer: Garry McNab

8:40pm Sunday on Nine.