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decades old conflicts the international community is calling for an immediate cease fire. coronavirus made to deaths are about to surpass 1000000 around the world according to the johns hopkins university track and the number of fatalities globally is now just over 999000 with more than 33000000 recorded infections. the u.s. have announced a new rapid testing system to ramp up virus detection nationwide donald trump says millions of test kits will be sent out across the country and one's a rise in positive cases is likely in the days ahead. last week we crossed a historic milestone when the united states conducted our 100 millionth test far more than any other country and not even close actually 2nd seems to be india with 1500000000 people and the numbers would be probably at least $50000000.00 more test by us we've conducted more tests than the entire european union and more than

all of latin america combined. prosecutors have named 6 more saudi nationals as suspects in the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi they'll be charged along with the 20 other saudis who are already being tried in absentia because he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018 and the only police officer charged in connection with the ceasing of briana taylor in march has pleaded not guilty former detective bret's hankinson is charged with endangering taylor's neighbors by firing into an adjacent adjacent apartment for an attack it was shot dead in a police raid on a flat a new yvel kentucky in march sparking a mass anti racism process across the us the other 2 offices involved in the shooting when not charged those headlines news continues here now jazeera off the people and powerful. frank assessments seeing that.

there's. a relation also facing life i think sloth is informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many cots of the old will meet region are actually under a de facto state of emergency critical debate after the use of proxy it does look to research the interest of the libyan people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. how is 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 un's regime in the 1st of 2

episodes investigating how it's 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 us 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 it's to make money is to make cash for kim. what intrigues me personally is home north korea manages to make money. one of the questions we were stuck with says we're just a month ago how much money does north korea make. for north korea's leadership questions like these are dangerous the north korean regime send a letter of indictment under my name to that's government charging me with 3 capital crimes the worst of the 3 was the accusation that our research my research was in my name and damaged the supreme dignity of the supreme leader but this sounds like it's a funny crime rights that was in the supreme dignity of somebody in north korea carries the death penalty. brought his investigations threaten to disrupt north

korea's 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 can flourish in the way it would they called ship cole legitimately they can't 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 what's 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 it 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 pyongyang's 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 pyongyang's economic research institute he's authorized to talk to journalists for example about the sanctions buttons on digital one what are we didn't do the saudis will enjoy getting just how well how is it to the hospital ha ha. we will be we. will hire nandan will only see side of things and will only get orbital the will 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 worse tricky at the same time they're no longer working. there's a use for those we have other see them using sanctions to try to have the regime modify as behavior. because we're not the world and that earns most of his money it gives you 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 it's 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 korea's 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 1991 later he was deputy director of south korea's institute for national security strategy. few people know more about the kim regime's workings than he does. no the old down young neighbors who seem cruel is fair even when it does always who

should cause you don't wonder all those hoops. joan there. are. so you don't. talk to any problem of the north korean acts and all tell you the bureau 30 day is absolutely crucial in earnings residence for the north korean regime it's absolutely flights will take away everything collapses. here in new york the united nations imposed 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 don't really see office 13 going into our investigations instead we're looking at the north korean banks and 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 us out of north korea is not called your 30 day nobody identifies as somebody who works for your 30 day so it's very difficult to slough faces of people you don't 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. and they're already got. a 100 if you want to. eat that daddy. has hope. that it's your body or who we're picking. that would be easier in bangalore or. less so than punk overlook is

a no no ballard you don't. think i saw it there let's. share that our how they're called there that are. usually. mandela that don't have a compiler or a loud changeable little choice of countries you will color but i view all portrait down the way of the core glowing as i said the larger part of you or. your wall i'm sure she did or bureau 39 never acts openly but its fundraising activities spanned the globe. angle what income bodie or a world heritage site. over $2500000.00 people visit the old command temples every year. selfies for the tourists. foreign exchange for cambodia and call 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 camero empire in monumental images throngs of tourists are guided through here every day. 7 7 not calling me i think. and. not wanting. 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 they'll share the profits the north korean c.e.o. doesn't 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 manned cambodia's king nora gong c n o we're good friends a solid basis for today's 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 don't 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. they're said to make several $1000000.00 a year but the waitresses don't get paid for their work. the dollars flow directly

into the regime's 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 they've 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 it 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 the concern or just say oh. yeah i. can't sing it. i know you to kiss me not to get a 017 i was your part of us all when cigar or what it was about. by the mag. me on. the bottles i got your go you know i'm going oh come on you get it you go get it done using got your. day. or. ones out on bail or not you. didn't i what is your money problem or you got the way. up your arm with an eye partial or. told on iraq had. already in them it had that you know what i want is your.

it's yours you know go into your bucket and. pad the gives you money. that i will buddy get their money for subsidy you go here and couldn't go back 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 as often severely punished. the work is only on about 90 heroes per month the rest goes to the regime cash for came. largely unnoticed by the international community north korea has sent

labor is all over the world up 215-0000 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. the united arab emirates and an african country 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. me or you. you know who should go shoot dollars who should go as leaders or when you are a member of the saw and what do much of. defectors say that bureau 39 is directly controlled by kim jong un and manages the leadership secret accounts the

so-called palace economy. but where in pyongyang is bureau 39 like a tit. and how many millions flowed into its coffers. when we asked the north korean official he and his translator pretend not to know muslims. with these vans. those years. by the theme of the. bureau 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the kim regime only north koreans who've escaped can talk about it openly. at a secret location we meet a man who used to work for bureau 39 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 car journeys hosiery. procedure busy. orders or it is she in your view it is a war or the world war on the ground 0 and here's a. look there's a commie iran or dorian is a poor leader has redock they who are in the room was you know we don't want a war. hero just write your own little we have our wars you should oh yeah. yeah. yeah.

to understand bureau $39.00 and the capitalist structures of north korea. it's 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 the public distribution system collapsed witnesses describe seeing loved ones of their bodies in the streets anywhere between one to 3000000 north koreans. so what happens is the north koreans knew that if there was a desire they could no longer trust

a lot of the state. from then on the rural population in particular had to be self-sufficient black market started to emerge all over north korea they're called junger down all sorts of currencies are exempted especially 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 do you know the total. draw of what they were in the korean war i will tell you i will launch part spruance your goo. goo troops along got to talk with in your corner so theory into who grew up told you i was young you don't really have a whole lot of it. goes. so the regime tried to

control the markets that it knows it can't be. if it serves on the workers without having in place another public distribution system people die of hunger. north koreans are not going to let it happen again then i would have a blast. and north korea really is for the socialist country with the economy in ruins to a capitalist country with the hybrids economy that looks socialist but really is is is really cover this. the biggest profiteers from these black markets up young man officials because the van loyalty but mainly out of financial self interest 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 called dong 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 at pirro $39.00. like this man who's been hiding in seoul since he escaped born in the ninety's he experienced how north korea developed increasingly capitalist structures before his escape he was responsible for exports bureau 39 s. most lucrative business fearing the regime's revenge he too doesn't want to be recognized where you go and. chose one of them so long as you know you don't go on if you're lonely or you don't know you will go shouldn't. you deterring or know

there was a dome and a lot of holes are going to me. you know with your. no you don't and we don't on q. oh. no pirtle boy a cock into what i was going to pop to tell you don was going to. continue to draw more toys on design a go. ringback get them their turn to worse and underwrite the budget. in that respect at least north korea's got to get as a no different from their counterparts in the west. mccoy brother had another what is a little humble for what they knew that it was all on your i. you know you are we have reporters. who you don't understand you either well or your well controlled game how diligent would you have sold will you know i was a poor total 10 when your door in the next of our 2 investigations how insurance

scams computer hacking and illegal arms sales keep the money rolling in. what once was i think what will be. fine tradition in future i thought in twine through. the race between

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