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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 dear 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 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, 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, estimate 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 governments. 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 either. this sounds like it's a funny crime right? damaging the supreme differently. if somebody in north korea kerisha deaf county rim, co 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. ah, 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 new 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. piano again, 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 take him to our house and to the house and have him on our going didn't we will be considered when you guys will turn on work when he started things get on the 20

will k. so i pronounce was wrong, you know, on the sanctions it 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 nursing 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 korea talk about a secret government department that said to administer the regime secret funds, allegedly can is some. and his son, kim john, 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. kim bung. you

young a. she what i'm is all. no, the own bank has own young nubile. she was fair. even where it was from she. of course she does wonder 20 goal june. god goes to school, she didn't. kim jonah, she's out of town. donna, me talk to any prominent north korea next and all. tell you that bureau, 39 is absolutely crucial in earnings refuse for nursing regime. it's absolutely fine. it'll 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 countries to generate foreign currency. and then that money is sent back to north korea bureau, 39 outside of north korea called bureau 39. nobody identifies as somebody who works for euro 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 1980 s. 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 got that a lot or is that it has all continued up. you

tell us that it is sure where to go, who will tell us? that'd be out and bumble were off child in crickets of thomas, to the punk overall because on the gun, you know that a lot are going to be to me to take i thought pick the left that it will share that how they called it up. you some turn 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 local lender. and so it's a lot of pedagogy, katrina, because you got one from pushy to drug goal bureau, so she 9 never acts openly, but it's fundraising activities span the globe. ah, uncle, 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, uncle, 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 and museum that opened in 2015 as its heart is a 3 day painting that depicts the history of the command empire. in monumental images, throngs of tourists are guided through here every day. so. 7 7 the pen to they for quality and we have 50 city pen 10. let's how one. yeah. and from one to penton, not code in consent. so convincing un sanctions north korean,

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 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 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 korea and throw another set of doors open for the hungry tourists. they don't want cameras in the restaurant. so we fill 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 course costs 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 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, [000:00:00;00] i

i there are 130 such north korean restaurants worldwide. 3 of them income rodeo. 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 work is 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 one's on the ocean. the concern is just sail and the consumption. when you get to dish meant to get to 017 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 massive. something in a come get did you get to join us fishing? gotcha. it's on $200.00. and then what is it? what am i will playing it go,

sons out. tumble on our cho. couldn't eat or money had all on me. all you got the wish and drove him pin up to within a crash local toe. so told on honey, in going to have to kinda, i guess you're already hunted shoes, you know, guns all bucket and they have to get him on a credit or chips out on a 30 day money for subsidy. you go ahead and include them under book. you'll see the modern slavery, north korea, and 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 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 work in queue weight, malaysia, cambodia, mongolia, oman cotton, 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. she will have a pony boy, you know, i don't have to then have she go, she daughters him. she, of course,

she does not remember august all for me on in was defective. 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 bureaus. 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the king regime. only north koreans

who escaped can talk about it openly. me secret location. we meet a man who used to work for bureau 79. 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 film from behind me, jones hazy k kilometer and you could try to come generally. busy more the engineering that are going to see now there's some more, more working on the run to run get, you know, there's a 30 minute police history vines in the ground was, you know,

when we will just read out that you are going to get a movie 100 times she's 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 break up. north korea loses one of its most important trading partners. while many format socialist states now rely on market economics, the kins continue to isolate themselves. when kim jong il takes over from his late father in 1994, a famine breaks out the great famine, mid ninety's, but in

a fresh start to death. the public distribution system collapse. witnesses described seeing mountains of dead bodies in the streets, anywhere between $1.00 to $3000000.00. there are 3 states. so what happens in north korea is now new. that is what it is or 5 they could no longer trust or rely on the state. from then on the rural population, in particular, had to be self sufficient. market started to emerge all over north korea. they're called jung done. all sorts of currencies are accepted, especially american dollars and chinese, you, on today, they're 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 about it. and so here, more time to, to united total would be to procure back there were showing that chloe moore

hadn't to go to lunch, post pruitt, your who return go to church among that, to talk with him. you go to pony or so to mean to go to india. i mentioned in the new i've always so the regime try to control the market that it knows 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 luke socialists, but really is really capitalistic. ah, the biggest profiteers 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 them. but their loyalty comes at a price. many dorms you hold senior government positions including a few rows, 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 exports 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 using bio, you know, even though she didn't tall she could took him on there, which is what was hired again, tv show doing their korea. so you don't away then tone kill, will turtle boy cock until she comes to you down unless she continues to though montoya on to. ringback china with an under in that respect at least north korea go get us and no different from their counterparts in the west wave rather than

what they need to do on the how to get him met who. ready angel about the game. how did we get with castle live? guys prove it to to 10. you know in the next about 2 investigations, how insurance comes computer hacking and illegal sales? keep the money rolling in the north korea isolated and heavily sanction yet earning billions around the globe bureau. 39 is involved in everything that makes money for, for you to carry a different passport,

take on the money this year. and it goes straight into the coffers of leadership a to park, people in power investigation, neuro 39 cache for kim park to on jesse oh the i money fight in doha here. your top stories on al jazeera and we begin with breaking news alpha ghana stone, where the taliban has captured the provincial capital of condos. it also claims to have seized another city in the north as fighting with government forces escalades across the country. let's go straight to charlotte, but us who is in combo or charlotte, bring us up to date with the fighting or just spoken to local journalists to face