Out as iraq will bring you the names and kind of fans that matter. How does the. How does north korea one of the poorest countries in the world mannish to evade u. N. Sanctions and pay for its Nuclear Weapons program the answer is through a secretive Government Organization known as bureau 39. 00 which obtains Foreign Exchange by any means possible to fund kim jong uns regime in the 1st of 2 episodes investigating how its done we reveal how Money Laundering and slave labor raise cash for kids. North korea the pariah state. A dictatorship shrouded in mystery. Every day the official news papers praised the heroic deeds of the d. L. Leader. Time seems to stand still here. I am. North korea has the 4th largest army in the world. For 3 generations the kim family has ruled the country with an iron fist. But how does the regime manage to survive despite severe un sanctions and how come kim jon only has enough money to threaten the world with the most powerful weapon of all time. The new clear. Fall from north korea remco broida a history professor is working on answers to these questions. He says our image of north korea is wrong. North korea is and what it tells it is just look at the country functions at the highest level what is the main goal of of the government of the regime i should say its to make money is to make cash for kim. What intrigues me personally is how north korea measures to make money. One of the questions we were stuck with says were just a month ago how much money does north korea make. For north koreas leadership questions like these are dangerous the north korean regime send a letter of indictment under my name to thats government charging me with 3 capital crimes the worst of the 3 was the accusation that our research my research was in my name damaged the supreme dignity of the Supreme Leader that this sounds like its a funny crime rights that missing the supreme dignity of somebody in north korea carries the death penalty. Brought his investigations threaten to disrupt north koreas cash flow the country is internationally isolated because of its Nuclear Program without legal sources of income the regime has taken to raising money illegally. New york the seat of the United Nations since 2006 the un has imposed 9 rounds of sanctions against north korea these measures are monitored by an International Panel of experts the panel consists of 8 members including ex intelligence military and Financial Experts for their own safety they work in secret only the coordinator Hugh Griffiths is willing to speak on camera. But sanctions have a tremendous impact on one level of career it means that economy cant flourish in the way it would they called ship cole legitimately they cant ship or legitimately foreign currency is very important to any country no matter how talk your kids economy you need foreign currency to buy the goods that are essential for your population or for your elite group so far in current use pretty essential to north korea survival the question is whats more important to the north korean leadership developing a new cure. Ballistic Missile Program or seeing their economy flourish. The regime decided to go for the bomb. In 2005 its officially announce that it had Nuclear Weapons as a protection against attacks from the outside and to strengthen its power on the inside. Pyongyang the city of the chosen. Brand new apartment blocks lined spotlessly clean avenues. Here is where pyongyangs upper class resides only those who are considered loyal to the regime live here those who want to enter the capital from the outside need a permanent. Songs Young Children from pyongyangs Economic Research institute hes authorized to talk to journalists for example about the sanctions buttons on digital one what are we didnt do the stories of all enjoy getting to hobble how was it to the hospital ha ha. We will be we. Are not gonna go only see things and well all know that orbital wall is open up another look is in the on. The sensors that have been put on north korea are extremely strict i mean this for the nothing the country that has been saved and bore diversely him or more strictly at the same time theyre no longer working. There is a use for the north korea policy and using sanctions to try to have the regime modify his behavior. Because were not the world and that earns most of his money as gifts is the flood for this thing that gives us a life. Many high ranking defectors from north korea talk about a secret Government Department that said to administer the regime secret funds allegedly kim is some and his son kim jong il set it up in the late 1970 s. And equipped it with wide ranging powers its time securing an independent power base for the kims and raising money for the nuclear bomb and the leaders personal luxury its name bureau 39. 00. Only 200 kilometers to the southeast. South koreas hypermodern capital around 25000000 people live in the metropolitan area about half the population of south korea among them most of the 30000 people who managed to flee from north korea. Co young one was a north korean diplomat he escaped in 1901 later he was Deputy Director of south koreas institute for National Security strategy. Few people know more about the kim regimes workings than he does. By you. No the whole bunch only young able to sing quarries share you with us awesome ship or should i wonder of all those which who are still joe there. Are. The same. Talk to the problem of the north korean acts and all tell you that your 30 day is absolutely crucial in earnings residence for the north korean regime its absolutely flights will take away everything collapses. Here in new york the United Nations impose and monitor the sanctions against north korea. And entity as important as bureau 39 should be heading the list of banned Organizations Office 39 as is normally talked about borrowed north korean defectors we dont really see office 13 going into our investigations instead were looking at the north korean banks the Shell Companies traditionally operate overseas in 3rd current trees to generate foreign currency and then that money is sent back to north korea. Bureau 39 of us out of north korea is not called bureau 30 day nobody identifies as somebody who works for a bureau 30 so its very difficult to slough faces on people you dont really know are active. Kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo since the 1980 s. North korea has been procured ing foreign currency here in the heart of africa co young one witnessed a particularly spectacular case at the time. Theyre already down and out it was. 100 if you want to. Eat that outdated she. Can. Tell you that your body or who we are picked the latter to be easily. Charming could get us there thomas of the over of is and i know that you dont. Know that i think i saw. How theyre called that are. What are your laws or a law that would apply or allowed or changeable oil. Dollars but i view all round the lay of the law glowing as have a lot of how i view what i regard for a wall and a war hero 39 never acts openly but its Fund Raising Activities and the globe. And call work income podia a World Heritage site. Over 2500000. 00 people visit the old command temple every year. Selfies for the tourists. Foreign exchange for cambodia uncle what operating Company Earned more than 100000000. 00 in 2018 tourism is by far the largest industry here a lucrative business also for north korea. Right next to the entrance to the temple a museum that opened in 2015 at its heart is a 3 d. Painting that depicts the history of the command empire in monumental images throngs of tourists are guided through here every day. 7 7 and not call me i think. Theyre not running and. Circumventing un sanctions north korea not only built the complex but also financed it in return the North Koreans collect all the revenues for the 1st 10 years after that ringback theyll share the profits. d the north korean c. E. O. Doesnt want to appear in front of the camera but he says the museum makes about 7000000. 00 a year in entrance fees alone. Cambodia and north korea have maintained close relations for decades kim is so now and cambodias King Norodom Sihanouk were good friends a solid basis for todays business ties that contravene u. N. Sanctions. In the evening when the museum closes the North Koreans throw another set of doors open for the hungry tourists they dont want cameras in the restaurant so we film in secret. The menu boasts north korean specialties such as cold noodles and sea cucumber. The prices are surprisingly high by cambodian standards a main course cost up to 50. 00. In particular tourists from china and south korea visit the restaurant the young women who serve here a mostly art students from pyongyang. They live and sleep above the restaurant and are often not allowed to leave the premises for years. Every evening at the same time they change their costumes and get ready for the big show. There are 130 such north korean restaurants worldwide 3 of them in cambodia. Theyre said to make several 1000000. 00 a year but the waitresses dont get paid for their work. The dollars flow directly into the regimes secret coffers. No other country exploits its population as systematically as north korea. North korean workers are deployed worldwide even in the European Union in poland. Here we encounter north korean work brigades on a building site theyve been promised good wages and decent working conditions only to be treated like slaves. In the evening after a 12 hour shift the work is that driven to their barracks. They are monitored around the clock by north korean state security. Still one of them decides to talk. When i was in their concern or just say oh. Yeah. Ones on the cancer summit. And you get to kiss me not to get as they are concerned about your party it will get us all one sick but i. Couldnt talk about or buy them i get. Me on king of gold they got you for because a bottles i got your book you know something and oh come on you get it you go get it done using got your. Name. And your day in the woods its hot on my wall. Playing it. Runs out on what i know what you. Get and the i would be your money had all gone well you got no way he little you. Can pin up your arm with an i pod shuffle or so i. Told on iraq i. Had that you know i want is you. A 100 years you know gone to a bucket and they. Had to give you money i got it all the time i will buddy get their money or subsidy you go ahead and and couldnt pump a book you. Modern slavery north korea sends well trained workers to poland to toil in shipyards and on construction sites the workers families are held hostage. In north korea if the work of fleece the family at home is often severely punished. The work is only earn about 90 euros per month the rest goes to the regime cash for kim. Largely unnoticed by the International Community north korea has sent labor is all over the world up 2150000 in all about 40000 of them are in russia and up to 100000 in china North Koreans also work in q 8 malaysia cambodia mongolia oman qatar the United Arab Emirates and in african countries under un sanctions these workers need to go back to north korea but the practiced still continues experts estimate that the regime makes up to 1000000000. 00 a year this way. Paul need all your Church Social causes all those who should cause it as well when you have a man or his or in what doing what. Defectors say that bureau 39 is directly controlled by kim jong un and manages the leadership secret accounts the socalled palace economy. But where in pyongyang is bureau 39 located. And how many millions flowed into its coffers. When we ask the north korean official he and his translator pretend not to know. The we his own reasons here. Those years you use. Both of them. But the. Bureau 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the kim regime only North Koreans whove escaped can talk about it openly. At a secret location we meet a man who used to work for bureau fetching 9 he was based in china his task smuggling foreign currency. Then he escaped. His position was so important that today the north korean regime threatens to kill him this is why he had Plastic Surgery to alter his face even so he only wants to be filmed from behind zip code or. Is home. Order during the. War or the world war on the ground 0 and heres a. Look theres a the county or dorian is a poor leader has triggered the. Gross you know war without the war the fear of just the 11. 0. Shit oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To understand bureau 39 and the capitalist structures of north korea its important to understand its history in 1991 the soviet union breaks up north korea loses one of its most important trading partners. While many for my socialist states now rely on Market Economics they can continue to isolate themselves when kim jong il takes over from his late father in 1994 a famine breaks out. During the great famine these by the North Koreans starved to death public Distribution System collapsed witnesses describe seeing loved ones of dead bodies in the streets anywhere between one to 3000000 North Koreans. So what happened is the North Koreans knew that if there was a desire they could no longer trust allies of the state. From then on the rural population in particular had to be selfsufficient black market started to emerge all over north korea theyre called junger down all sorts of currencies are accepted to specially american dollars and chinese yuan today there are countless of these markets throughout the country 400. 00 of them are even officially licensed and provide tax income for the regime mainly food and goods from china about it and so on. Board how those 3 to top. Drawer what they were in the korean war i will tell you i will launch part sproule sure to. Cooling trends along got to talk with in your corner so cheery who grew up. Here has a home origin and. So the regime tried to control the markets that it knows is called because if it serves the workers without having in place another public Distribution System people die of hunger. North koreans are not going to let it happen again they know and have a blast. And north korea really chance for the socialist country with the economy in ruins to a capitalist country with a hybrid economy that looks socialist but really is is is really capitalist. The biggest profiteers from these black markets up pyongyang officials because the van loyalty but mainly out of financial selfinterest the regime allows them to trade over the years they become rich they sell luxury goods smuggle Raw Materials and invest in real estate they caught dont you money lords they enjoy the luxury and the freedom that the regime grants them but their loyalty comes at a price. Many darns you hold senior government positions including a period 39. 00. Like this man whos been hiding in seoul since he escaped born in the ninetys he experienced how north korea developed increasingly capitalist structure before his escape he was responsible for exports biro 39 s. Most lucrative business fearing the regimes revenge he too doesnt want to be recognized when you go in. On shows on and on sometimes him well you dont get on in the day you know you dont go well you dont know you her though she doesnt talk. She took going on and then when you dont mind what was hazel being q. B. You dont wish oh i dont. Know you dont im going down punk you oh. No pirtle going into what i was going to have departed tell you don was going to. Continue to draw more toys on design i. Ringback could get them nay it turned into worse and under article. In that respect at least north korea has got to get as a no different from their counterparts in the west. Poivre other side of the what isnt it humble for what they knew that it was our little no i. You know you are we have. You know i dont you either well or you well control game ill do it with josh bolten will realise it but were total 10 were door in the next about 2 investigations how insurance scams computer hacking and illegal arms sales keep the money rolling in. Theres a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often peoples voices are not heard because theyre just not part of the mainstream news narrative. Obviously we cover big stories and we report on the big events that are going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally dont have a voice and then when i was a child my thats never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think thats what im here really does he ask the question to people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of whats going on. Water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think through the European Commission would be very very true there is water privatization on anybody the only fields. People who see every 2 years something to invest a profit of they want or. 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