country's top scientist assassinated and a conservative like parliament responding by restricting international inspections on the roads nuclear facilities. braimer is seen as the chosen candidate of the political establishment. oh, but if you cannot address the immediate and pressing issues of the economy and sanctions, he's picked up, future and ascendancy could be effected. i said big i just 0 ah, up they are, and these are the top stories. the number of new daily corona virus infections in tokyo is going to be 5000 the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic. authorizing infections have been driven by the more contagious delta vary and the japanese government extended emergency measures now through 8 more regions in the front. we've hit 5000 that shows just how quickly the situation is escalating the state of emergency just a few days ago was extended. i'm here in hope here until at least the end of the

month from a, from a sporting perspective thought really matters. and that was going to have an impact on the paralympic games because they had been hope the spectators and fans could be allowed in for the starts off the paralympics. there's still a chance that that could be the situation for the last few days about event. but it looks increasingly unlikely. now room on the number of recorded cases of covered 19 worldwide is now more than 200000000. according to johns hopkins university, it took a year to register the 1st $100000000.00 infections that figure that has doubled in just 6 months. the world health organization is now urging rich at nations to pulls their plans for booster shots the police 11 and have you down against protesters outside parliament. the country marked one year since a massive explosion at the fort of a route and right has gathered to demand justice for the more than $200.00 people

who died that i want is responsible for the block to be held to account africa. government ground troops have been repelling a tax on multiple from the taliban fight. as advance on herat kandahar and laska has been backed up by strikes from the africa and force more special forces have also arrived in helmand. the taliban is fighting in the heart of the provincial capital. while 5 in turkey have now spread to a coal fired power plant, the se in coast. the governance is the main unit to the font, have not been damaged. that facility in the last, near the forethought ton of bulge and has been evacuated and in the us, the fast moving wildfire is destroying homes and businesses in northern california . the dixie fire has been burning for 3 weeks now. with the flames burning more than 270000 acres. alright, kim's got you news, our in about half an hour time on al jazeera. next it is people empower from talk to al jazeera. we roam, did you want the un to take and who stopped you?

we listen, see the whole infrastructure and being totally destroyed. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on our sierra the 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 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 seemed 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 via un sanctions? and how come kin 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 broy, a history professor is working on answers to these questions. he says, our image of north korea is wrong. nursing isn't what it tells that 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. it's to make money is to make 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 under my name to 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 leader. this sounds like it's a funny crime, right. damaging the supreme difference of somebody in north korea kerisha death penalty ranko 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 can 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, no matter how, of talking to economy. you need foreign currency to buy the goods that are

essential for your population or 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 p o n, 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. don't you? and chose from young young's economic research institute. he's authorized to talk to journalists, for example, about the sanctions. you don't wanna leave it, you can do so visible enjoy. i'll take him to the house and go to the house and haven't, i don't want didn't we we we had sometimes you guys will turn on work on, but he will case. so i pronounce, you don't get things on the sanctions that have to have and put a north korea are extremely strict. i mean, just from enough in a country that has been sanctioned, bore diversity him or more strictly in the same time they no longer working.

there is a huge problem with our policy and using sanctions to try and half. the regime modifies behavior because we're not sanctioning the one entity that earns most of his money that keeps the flood financially. this keeps life. many high ranking defectors from those korea talk about a secret government department that said to administer the res, him secret fun's allegedly can is sung. 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. so me, south korea is hypo 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 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. kinda funny and young age. she what i 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. god goes to school. she didn't, kim, joan air, she's out or come down and talk to any

prominent north korean exile 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 is 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 countries to generate foreign currency. and then that money is sent back to north korea. bureau 39 south of nursery has called bureau 39. nobody identifies as somebody who works for bureau thursday 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 980 s, north korea has been for curing 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 call writing and got that a lot. is that it has all continued up is tell us that it was sure where to go. who will tell us? that'd be out. and bible were all child in cricket, thomas, to the punk overall, because on the got in that a lot are going to be me to take, i thought pick the left that it will share that. how they called it up. you sometime bird, you judge shapiro. all of that, so we had a pie all combined,

a lot of the little toil go to general corner product as you go purchase with a call to check the pedagogy community because you got one from pushing it out of all bureau. so she 9 never acts openly, but it's fundraising activities span the globe. i ankle, what in can bodya world? heritage might over 2500000 people visit the old command temples every year. they'll fees 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, throngs of tourists are guided through here every day. so. 7 the penta. they from north korea and we have 50 city pen 10. let's how one. yeah. and from one to pen can not put income stand up. 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. ready 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 the entrance fees alone. cambodia and north korea have maintained close relation for decades can, is sewn. and cambodia is king noted on c. no, we're 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 film in secret the menu boast north korean specialties, such as coals noodles and seek you come by. the prices, the surprisingly high by cambodian 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 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 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 driven to their barracks. they are monitored around the clock by north korean state security. still one of them decides to talk one's on the ocean. the concern is just sale

and on the, on the can when you get to cement or took it to 0170 part of a vessel. when checked on, i will put too much of a she mentioned the king on equal, they're going to go on here guys. you go, you know something in a come on get, did you still get your chinese fishing? gotcha, it's 200. then. then what is it all playing it go? 100 tumble analogy. you couldn't eat or man ahead or on while you're on the wish. and roy you can pin up to with an actual tow told on it. okay, honey, i'm gonna have to kinda, i will get, you'll already hunted shoes, you know, going to hold bucket and they are have to get him on a credit or start on a 30 day money for subsidy. you go ahead and book you up to

the modern slavery. north korea sends well trained workers to poland, to toil in shipyards and on construction sites. the work has families held hostage in north korea if the work of flea, the family at home as 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, katara, 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 time. you had a pony boy, you don't have to then have you push it daughter's homes. of course, she does not have his all for one in which dissenters say that bureau says she, 9 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 bureaus. 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. to do can we just have a job and he could probably take a general cause. busy more than, i mean they're going to see now are you into some more, more working behind on the run to day with no, there's a 30 minute police has 3 docks and violence in the garage was young. one will be more just that you are going to will, i will, is 100 on time. she done a ways to understand bureau, so he 9 and the capital structure 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 form a 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 great famine in the mid ninety's by the north korea start to death. the public dairy distribution system collapse with us is described seeing mountains of their bodies and in the streets, anywhere between $1.00 to $3000000.00. there are 3 states. so what happens is the north koreans now knew that if they wanted to survive, they could no longer trust or rely on the states from then on the rural population, in particular, had to be self sufficient. but market start to emerge all over north korea. they're

called jung, that done. all sorts of current fees are accepted, especially american dollars and chinese, you on today, there are a countless 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, a bonded and so here, both of those to, to united total would be to procure but there was that coin more to go lunch, post pro your school returning a good trip to london to talk with him if you go to pony or so to me because i'm not going to indicate how about mentioning the new i've always so the regime try to control the market that it knows it come 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 luc socialist. but really is really capitalist ah, the biggest profit from these black markets up young, young officials, because of fan 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 then loyalty comes at

a price. many don't you hold senior government positions including bureaus, 39 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 is revenge. he too doesn't want to be recognized when you go any chosen again. so him, you don't go on a yellow reasoning, bio, you know, even though she didn't tall to come to him on them, which is no man's must have again tv, show it on there. so you don't. and then tom gill turtle

boy can't see they're putting you down unless you don't want to continue though montoya to. ringback get them and china with an under punching in that respect at least north korea go get us a no different from their counterparts in the west wave rather not to tell you what they need to do on the outer boy who. ready is an angel about boy children, how do we do with casual live guys? move it to teneo in the next about 2 investigations. how insurance comes computer hacking and illegal sales? keep the money rolling in the, the

north korea isolated and heavily sanction yet earning billions around the globe euro. 39 is involved in everything that makes money for you to carry different passwords, say, contacts, and the money this year. and it goes straight into the coffers of leadership, a to park, people empower investigation, bureau, 39 cache for kim park to on a jazzy data award winning programming from international. so make one quick. so it's right on the back of the global discussion. what guaranteed delivery the right to pick the fide life giving voice to the voice here in california is almost

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