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. How do north korean Smuggling Operations work . Are there people with false names . Are there ships with false names
outstanding questions in what was not released, the redacted documents? i think two things. i think the future documents may actually show us a little bit more about this, but it will never settle the question for everyone. one is, you know, oswald was an amazingly close touch with people from the soviet union. not only as a defector to the soviet union, redefected, but also went to the soviet embassy in mexico and the same thing with the cuban embassy. lbj in 1963 dealing with all of this, the last think he would have wanted was to have a lot of information out at that time suggesting that oswald may have acted on behalf of the soviets and the cubans because, as johnson said in his private tapes, americans will demand that i get into a war that could kill 60 million people. so he saw it as a political problem. the other side of this was that
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
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.
a top wrangler of cash for kim jong-un s regime. he said sometimes he would handbags of cash to ship captains leaving from china where he was stationed for north korea. redefected in 2014, he says he worked mostly in legal imports and exports, but also gave insight into north korea s smuggling operations that he describes as almost unstoppable. translator: on the open sea, the yellow sea, there are hundreds of fishing boats. both from china and north korea. and all the smuggling is done by these so-called fishing boats. instead of fishing, they are involved in smuggling. and it is very difficult even for china to stop these hundreds of fishing boats. reporter: according to the u.n. and outside analysts, kim s regime sells weapons on the black market using diplomats to move illegal drugs. they have trafficked and counterfeit american dollars, fake viagra and endangered