for scarce vessel than containers, driving up the price of shipping, prices are up 300 to 500 percent across the board. and who do you think will pay in the end? you've probably guessed it. it's really a significant increase in there's going to be a trickle down effect from this price increase into consumer prices. pandemonium in the port and in the supply chain. better get ready for higher prices and scanty, or supplies. rob reynolds al jazeera at the ports of los angeles. ah, just a quick look at our main stories now. and events have been held in lebanon to mark a year since the devastating explosion of a roots ports of $200.00 people were killed in 6 and a half 1000. others injured. when

a poorly stored chemical stockpile was ignited, it was one of the world's biggest ever known nuclear explosions. lebanese authorities have been criticized for blocking a judicial investigation and 12 months own people are still demanding answers. large groups of protest as clashed earlier with security forces near the parliament building and cooling for accountability, but lebanon has no function in government. is it slight further into economic and political chaos so far? no senior officials have been held to account then honda has more from beirut. we are now in more to square, which is the center of the protest movement. that's again in october 2019. as you can see, there's still firing to guys to this for the remaining 2 protesters here. we've seen things like this, play out in the streets of the capital for, for once, a year and a half now. and the next morning as if nothing has happened as if nothing changes

the faces clinging on to power calls from the street for a new leadership. well, in all the top stories this, our wildfires are continuing to sweep across several countries in southern europe, high temperatures of fanning the flames in greece in italy. while in turkey, people have been 8 people were killed in some of the worst fires that country is seen for years. more than 2000 and wildfires of burning in the south of the country, high temperatures, low humidity and strong winds are all making the situation worse. also, continuing to follow developments in afghanistan, the capital kabul has been shaken by another explosion. after a large attack on the home of the defense minister on tuesday, the taliban has claimed responsibility for the bowman gun battle warning of more attacks against talk government officials, lows. the headlines this our people in power is coming up next. something was going to change. anything really changed. this is systemic violence that needs to be

addressed at its core. we are in a race against variance know what to say. so we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now. not the world we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just there on me, the hours north korea, one of the poorest countries in the world, managed to evade un sanctions and pay for it nuclear weapons program. the answer is through a secretive government organization known as bureau, 39, which obtains foreign exchange by any means possible to fund kim jong and regime in the 1st of 2 episodes investigating how it's done. we reveal how money laundering and slave labor raise cash for kin. ah.

the north korea, the pariah state. a dictatorship shrouded in mystery. every day the official newspapers praised the heroic deeds of the deer leader. time seems to stand still here. ah, no, korea has the 4th largest army in the world for 3

generations. the kim family has ruled the country with an iron faith. but how does the regime manage to survive despite severe un sanctions? and how come king john own has enough money to threaten the world with the most powerful weapon of all time? the nuclear bomb? the far from north korea ramco broker, a history professor is working on answers to these questions. he says, our image of north korea is wrong. nothing isn't what it said. it is just look at the country functions and at the highest level. what is the main goal of,

of the government of the regime i should say is to make money is made cash for him . what intrigues me personally is how north korea managers to make money. one of the questions we are stuck with is where does the money go? how much money does north korea make for north korea's leadership? questions like these a dangerous, the north korean regime? send a letter of indictment and their my name to the 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 damage the supreme dignity of the supreme meter. this sounds like it's, it's a funny crime, rice damaging the supreme dickens of somebody in north korea kerisha death, county remco broke his investigations, threatened 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 nation. since 2006, the u. s. has imposed 9 rounds of sanctions against north korea. these measures the 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 griffith is willing to speak on camera. the sanctions have a tremendous impact on one level on north korea. it means that economy comp flourish in the way it would, they can't ship coal legitimately, they can't ship iron or legitimately foreign currency is very important to any country. and no matter how of talking to economy, you need foreign currency to buy the goods that are essential for your population

know for your elite group. so foreign currency is pretty essential to north korea survival. the question is, what's more important to the north korean leadership, developing nuclear ballistic missile program or seeing their economy flourish, the regime decided to go for the bomb in 2005, it officially announced that it had nuclear weapons as a protection against attacks from the outside and to strengthen its power on the inside. young in the city of the chosen brand, new apartment block line, spotlessly clean avenues. here is where the union's upper class reside. only those who are considered loyal to the regime live here. those who want

to enter the capital from the outside need a permit. so young children from young young's economic research institute. he's authorized to talk to journalist, for example, about the sanctions on to didn't wanna do so. guess we'll get take him to our house and go to the house and have him on. i don't want didn't we will be considered. we sure guys will have not done work when he started dancing on the 20 will k. so i pronounce, you know, getting on the sanctions at, at a half and put north korea are extremely strict. i mean, there's probably nothing a country that has been sanctioned, bore diversity, him or more strictly in the same time. they're no longer working. there is

a huge problem with our know cf odyssey and using sanctions to tie and half the regime modifies behavior. because we're not saying the one entity that earns most of his money that keeps the flood financially. this keeps his life. many high ranking defectors from those career talk about a secret government department that said to administer the regime secret funds allegedly can, is some. and his son, kim jong, set it up in the late 19 seventy's and equipped it with wide ranging powers, its tasks, securing an independent power base for the kim's, and raising money for the nuclear bomb. and the leaders personal luxury, its name bureau, 39, only 200 kilometers to the southeast. south korea is hyper

modern 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. ko young one was a north korean diplomat. he escaped in 991. later, he was deputy director of south korea's institute for national security strategy. few people know more about the kim regimes workings than he does. cujo young age. she what i'm going to saw. no, the own bank has own young nubile. she was even worse. that's awesome. she of course she does wonder honey go june guys goes to school. she didn't, kim, joan air. she's out or come down and

talk to any prominent north korea next and all. tell you that bureau, 39 is absolutely crucial in earnings, refuse for screen regime. it's absolutely fatal. 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 band organizations. office $39.00 is normally talked about by north korean defectors. we don't really see office 39 in 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, salazar 3 has called bureau 39. nobody identifies as somebody who works for bureau

30 night. so it's very difficult to slap sanctions on. people you don't really know are active kinshasa, the capital of the democratic republic of congo. since the 1980s. north korea has been procuring foreign currency here in the heart of africa. co young one witnessed a particularly spectacular case at the time. i call them in 2 ways and they're polarization and we're not allowed to study. she has all continued up. you tell us that it is sure where to go, who we're pick last saturday, even sat and bumble. we're all been crickets of thomas to the punk overall. because on the, on the, on that a lot are going to be to me to take, i thought picked the left, that it will share that how they called it up. you some turn bird. you just pay

all of that. but we've had to get pie all combined a lot of the little toil countries corner product as you go purchase with a lot of call a lot of products you go to, you guys will go from pushy to drug goal bureau. so she 9 never acts openly, but it's fundraising activities span the globe. i ankle what in can bodya world heritage night over 2500000 people visit the old command temples every year. so phase for the tourists. foreign exchange for cambodia. ankle, what operating company, and more than $100000000.20 tourism is by far the largest industry here

a lucrative business also for north korea. right next to the entrance to the temples. a museum that opened in 2015 as a cart is a 3 d painting that picks the history of the command empire. in monumental images, throng of tourists are guided through here every day. so. 7 that they've not caught me. hey, destiny, pen 10. let's how one. yeah. and from one to pen can not put income, send them. so convincing 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 share the profits. the north korean c 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 relation for decades. can is sewn and cambodia is king noted on piano were good friends, a solid basis for today's business ties that contravene un 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 filmed in secret the menu boast, north korean specialties, such as cold noodle and seek you, come by. the prices the surprisingly high, by converting and standards. a main cause costs up to $50.00. in particular, tourists from china and south korea, visit the restaurant. the young women who serve here mostly students from pyongyang

and 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 changed their costumes and get ready for the big show. ah, i the there are 130 such north korean restaurants worldwide. 3 of them in cambodia. they 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 secret coffins. no other country

exploits its population 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 driven to their barracks their monastery, round the clock by north korean state security. still one of them decides to talk windows in the concerns of fail

rate and on the on the can when you get to dish men took it to 0170 part of a vessel. when checked on, i will put too much of a she mentioned the king on those on here guys. you go my say something in a come on i get did you get to join us fishing? gotcha. it's another $200.00. and then what is it? what am i will playing it go? 100 tumble or not show? couldn't it are money here though. you know wish and you can pin up to with an actual tow told on it or not. or do you have to kinda, i guess you're already hunted shoes. you know, go on to the bucket and they have to get him on a credit or should start on

a 30 day money for subsidy. you go ahead and include them under book. you'll see the modern slavery north korea fens well trained workers to poland, to toil in shipyards and on construction sites. the work is families held hostage in north korea. if the work of flea, the family at home is often severely punished. the work is only 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 285-0000 all about 40000 of them are in russia and up 280-0000 in china. north koreans also we're can q wait, malaysia,

cambodia, mongolia, oman cutter. the united arab emirates and an african countries under un sanctions. these workers need to go back to north korea, but the practice still continues. experts estimate that the regime makes up to $1000000000.00 a year. this way, all the banks. you had a pony boy, you know, don't have to then have you go. she daughter comes of course she does not prevent august all through in defense to say that bureau, 39 is directly controlled by kim john own. it manages the leadership secret accounts, the so called palace economy, but wherein pyongyang is bureau 39 located and how many millions flow into its coffers.

when we ask the north korean official, he and his translator pretend not to know where his host bureau. 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the king regime. only north koreans have escaped. can talk about it openly. me secret location. we meet a man who used to work for bureau 59. he was based in china, his task smuggling foreign currency. then he escaped his position with 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 film from behind. jones hazy, k killenger and you could try to kill, generate more than you mean that are going to see now there's some more working behind on the grounds here. are you guys, you know, there's a 30 minute pull history that vines in the garage was, you know, when we got more, just read that you are going to get a movie is 100 time. she done a ways to understand bureaus, $39.00 and the capitalist structure of north korea. it's important to understand its history. in 1991,

the soviet union breakdown north korea loses one of its most important trading partners. while many for my socialist states now rely on market economics, the kim's continue to isolate themselves. when kim jong il takes over from his late father in 1994, a famine breaks out. during the great famine in the mid ninety's or a french start to death, the public distribution system collapse with us is described seeing mountains of dead bodies in the streets, anywhere between $1.00 to $3000000.00 north korean states. so what happens is the north koreans now knew that if there was 2 or 5, they could no longer trust, rely in the states from then on the rural population, in particular, had to be self sufficient black markets to emerge all over north korea. they're

called young that done. all sorts of current fees are accepted, especially american dollars and chinese, you on today, their account list of these markets throughout the country. $400.00 of them, or even officially licensed and provide tax income for the regime. mainly food and goods from china bartered and sold here more time to to united total would be to procure back there was quite a more to go lunch post pro insure to return good trips among that to talk with you go to point. so to me, good afternoon, just to indicate how about i mentioning the new i voice so the resume, try to control the market with it. no said car, because if it's just on the market without having in place another public distribution system,

people die of hunger and north korean are not going to let that happen again. they know what happened last time. ah, and that's how north korea really changed from a socialist country with a economy and ruins to a capitalist country with a hybrid economy that looks socialist. but really is there any capitalist? ah, the biggest, profiting from these black markets up young, young officials because of their loyalty, but mainly out of financial self interest. the regime allows them to trade. over the year they've become rich. they sell luxury goods, smuggle raw materials and invest in real estate. they called don't you, money lords, they enjoy the luxury and the freedom that the regime grants. but the loyalty comes

at a price. many don't you hold senior government positions including a few ro session 9 like this man who's been hiding. and so since he escaped, born in the ninety's, he experienced town north korea developed increasingly capitalist structures. before his escape, he was responsible for export bureaus, 39, his most lucrative business, fearing the regime's revenge. he too doesn't want to be recognized when you go any shows on it. and so host him, well you don't go on a yellow, he's in bio, you know, even though she didn't tall, she took him on there which is what was hired again, tv show doing their korea so you don't know why they don't kill

turtle boy. was he going to get putting you down and with something you don't toys on to. ringback get them and china with an under punching in that respect, at least north korea go get us and no different from their counterparts in the west wave rather than tell you what they need to do on the outer boy who under control, how do we get what casual live guys are the prove it to teneo in the next about 2 investigations. how insurance scans, computer hacking and illegal sales keep the money rolling in the the

a year ago, one of the largest non nuclear blasts in history kills more than 200 people. and injured thousands, the victims families still need answers. we want to compute just how did dangerous chemicals end up in baby support? let's be professional. it was not intended for muslim. and was the whole stockpile unloaded from the ship? the missing amal and it wasn't, it was in one way or another in an illegal way before join me for their, for the full reports on yugoslavia disintegrated, war descended on its inhabitants amidst the death and destruction, one man created a peaceful microcosm for boys whose fathers faced each other in battle,

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