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Four ships for the breaching sanctions on the regime. Three of those ships fly north korean colors. The flag of the fourth ship is not clear. North korea has defied u. N. Sanctions and restrictions in the past. Now a north Korean Defector tells cnn the regime has a sophisticated Smuggling Network and can easily trade in banned goods. Cnns brian todd has this report for us. We have new information tonight from this defector on exactly how kim jong uns regime gets weapons and other banned material out of the country to sell on the black market. This man knows how kim gets his cash and helped him get it, funneling billions of dollars a year to the young dictator. August 2016, a freighter is heading to the suez canal. Around 30,000 rocket propelled grenades made in north korea. Part of what a north korean
defector describes as a smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong un. H ....
North korea that one describes as a spider web of smuggling. how do north korean smugging operations work? are there ships with false names being moved around? translator: the smuggling is conducted by any and every means you can imagine. larger items most we done using ships, for example by filing a cargo list where what is written is different from what is really being shipped. reporter: for decades, ho was a top wrangler of cash for kim jong-un s regime and he sometimes would handbags of cash leaving from china where he was stationed for north korea and redefected in 2014 he says he worked mostly in legal imports and exports and gave us insight into north korea smuggling operations he describes as being almost unstoppable. translator: on the open sea, the yellow sea, there are hundreds of fishing boats both from china and north korea. and all of the smuggling is done by these so-called fishing ....
Other equipment to is saell on the black market. august 2016, a freighter is intercepted headed to the suez canal. with 100,000 tons of iron on board around 30,000 rockets made by north korea. part of what north korea describes as a web of smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong-un. how does the smuggling work? are there people with false flames or ships moved around? translator: the smuggling is conducting with any items you can imagine. larger items with the cargo list, for what s written is different from what s being shipped. reporter: for decades, he s a top handler of cash from kim ....
Defector describes as a smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong un. how do north korean smuggling operations work? are there people with false names? are there ships with false names being moved around? translator: smuggling is conducted by any means you can imagine. mostly done by ships, for example, by filing a cargo list from what s written is different than what is really being shipped. for decades, ri jong ho says he would sometimes hand bags of cash to ship captains. redefected in 2014, he says he worked mostly in legal imports and exports but gave us insight into north korea s smuggling operations which he describes as unstoppable. on the north korean sea, the yellow sea, there are hundreds of fishing boats, both from china and north korea. ....
Smuggling net worth. what have you learned, brian? reporter: we have information on how kim jong-un s regime gets weapons out to sell on the black market. this man knows how kim gets his money and helps him get it funneling tens of thousands of years to the young dig tctator. august 2016 a freighter is intercepted. underneath 2,000 pounds of iron ore, rocket grenades made in north korea. part of what is a spider web of smuggling to line the pockets of kim jong-un. how do north korean smuggling operations work? are there people with false names? are there ships with false names being moved around? reporter: the smuggling is conducted by any and every means you can imagine. larger items are mostly done using ships, for example, by filing the cargo list. where what is written is different than what is really being shipped. reporter: for decades, he was ....