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dependents from britain in 1964, president edgarland was criticized for human rights to be massive unemployment and corruption, president elect to his lima not to manage expectations. meanings, ambien want him to do things differently. the, the president elect is promising to turn around the country, fortunes saying it's 5 year term and often will be a new chapter zambia. now, i mean the hill ways to see if you will deliver on his promises the us out to. c me on money side with the headlines on al jazeera b us has we open couple airports to chaotic scenes for the temporary suspension of evacuation slides. at one point, many afghans desperate to get out clung onto the outside of the u. s. transport
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plane as a taxi to the one way. several people fell to their death once it was born. us president joe biden has strongly defended his decision to pull out troops saying, and endless military deployment is no solution. he also said that us troops should not be expected to fight when afghan forces were unwilling to do certain self. re gave them every tool they could need, repaid their salaries provided for the maintenance of their force. something the tale bon doesn't have tolerable, does not have an air force. we provide a close air support. we gave them every chance determined our own future. we could not provide them was the will to fight for that future. some very brave and capable afghans, special forces, units, and soldiers of afghans. dan is unable to mount any real resistance and the tale
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bond. now, there is no chance that one year, one more year, 5 more years or 20 more years, the us military boots in the ground would have made any difference. in the news, the death toll from a devastating earthquake in haiti house wisdom, to more than 1406000 people have been injured as a tropical storm barrels to the caribbean nation rescue workers on desperately trying to save those who could still be buried alive. in the debauchery malicious prime minister movie dean. yes and has resigned. he's stepping down because he lost his majority in parliament, followed in fighting within his whirling coalition. and stay on as can take a prime minister until a successor is found. i came as he had lines coming up next. if people empower frank assessments by where it was
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again, freedom suppressed again. freedom of expression is a weapon against human life. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story or now jazeera, the north korea, one of the poorest countries in the world, managed to evade un sanctions and pay for each nuclear weapons program. the answer is through a secretive government organization. then this bureau, 39, which obtains foreign exchange, to fund kim jones regime in the 2nd of to investigations. how insurance scans, computer fraud and illegal sales keep the money rolling in the
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in north korea like game of thrones, that without the dragon's is an error, socratic, society, and capitalists. and everything is geared to make sure that there's as much cash for kim as, as possible, as who told you. not only that and getting shit out or yeah, yes, you got in bureau 39 is involved in everything that makes money for north korea is selling arms smuggling of drugs conser feeding off us bills. this is about hundreds of millions of dollars a year to tie it and everything. and you don't make dollars
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the and the germany until a few years ago, the north korean state insurance company k and i see had a branch in an innocuous looking apartment block here fix. north korean officials may deals with major european insurance companies at home. you know, we have all the talk to one more tangible tall one, and then all you got that on target on the not them yet. it was all helical come to russia to hit a thought, a my a got some technical or hire somebody on his hallway to me that has all had terrible. mendoza, lloyd, the younger lloyd,
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the all new diploma. campbell with that has a ping you guys him or, or can you all were mall the last you can say that i need those to me going down there. copying the girl parish. kevin gar. power is you'd have been guy so helicopter of sympathetic me and eating month to month was one case among many. in 2015, the european union put the north korean insurance company on their sanctions list. the accusation co financing of the nuclear weapons program through bureau. $39.00 experts estimate that with crashed helicopters and similar tricks, the kim regime and several $100000000.00. but how does the kim regime manage to transfer the millions it makes to pyongyang?
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the answer is simple. through diplomatic channels grew up and it shows how much it was. you don't have to go. no, i don't know what it is. i'm not sure who, who gave is true for her payroll. subject was you do you want her to, you know, korea uses. it's worldwide network of embassies to ferry money back to pyongyang, north korean officials, enjoying diplomatic community. carried money in cash. and that's like baggage. a simple but efficient way to ensure the cash flow doesn't stop. well, nursing the embassies have a different ethic function that, that's often mainly ceremonial. but there to function is financial. it's also illegal, mainly know screen diplomats are basically cast carriers for kim their into,
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for their, their businessman. they may be direct lawrence and maybe weapon smugglers. but they carry a different passport. so you contact them. berlin, right in the middle of the city, like the north korean embassy. the north koreans have been renting out one of the buildings as a hostile for tourists. they've been earnings, $38000.00 euros per month in rent, using embassy grounds for such activities is against diplomatic practices and contravenes un and you sanctions like any other country. the main goal of the embassies is to serve the state in the north korean states priorities in particular . so the cold sanctions are so comprehensive. now, much of the activities conducted in these embassies may be prohibited providing military supplies, training, and much of that has been done through north korea's embassies,
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particularly in africa and the middle east side of all the countries in the middle east. currently, syria and our republic has the greatest levels of prohibited cooperation with north korean military entities have his ascent. the father of the current theory and death point and can assume were friends from the 1900 sixty's own back. then the north koreans helped the syrians during the war against israel and supplied them with weapons and ammunition. an important source of income, right up to day. using tactics similar to those of 18th century pirates bureau, $39.00 runs ships under full flags and fate names. according to the un, north korea has dust managed to send large numbers of weapons to syria.
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between 20122017, at least 40 shipments from north korea passed through the suez canal. but in 2018, the us managed to have one of them intercepted. so we found something called go on its way to syria. these were acid resistant tiles, involves which could be used in chemical weapons development. but also missile fuel is highly corrosive. such tiles could be used for ballistic missile program as well . the bill of lading clearly gave has an address in syria established from the company for syria scientific studies research center. the s s i'll see which is responsible for serious ballistic missile chemical weapons development program. the russians in the chemical weapons produced in these liberal trees have been used by
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serious dictator against his own people for years and many of those who died in agony, foaming up a little known fact, was that the syrian chemical weapons program and we've created with the help of north korean technicians and the scientists some of these sites with armed by the united states. the purpose or actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production spread and use of chemical weapons. when the, the american bomb d m to chemical laboratories day bob to north korea, or whether they knew their bombing or trains. i don't know, but they did s screen. the presence in syria is really much and their report sandra, appreciated me, one 3rd of all buildings and syria has been destroyed, attract, and
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a business opportunity. the theory and regime hopes for billions from international donors for the reconstruction of the country, the necessary work brigades to come from north korea. the 2 countries signed a contract at a meeting in june 2019 deals between death bought the money this earned by office 39. it goes straight into the coffers to leadership. it is used on the one hand to provide for luxury items. it is used to pay for them and the mercedes benz car stats somehow found their way into the korea despite the sanctions. but it also, it is also used and this is probably more important to deliver the best hackers. you can, you can train as early estimate, eighty's came and young, ill started training the most talent of children to become cyber hackers. they're also good money earners. ransomware, like the one across fires, for example,
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is considered to come from the north koreans. it is the biggest cyber attack the world has ever seen. hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in about $150.00 countries rendered useless. now the u. s. government is publicly placing the blame for that cyber assault, uniquely dubbed, want to cry squarely, and kim jong owns army of hackers in so computer specialists, a hot on the heels of north korean hackers. simon. joy works as a consultant for south korean intelligence agencies. could the washing and a quarter to know how to sure carnie to june, and then move to bang, and i will pack it up to them. and then we'll keep 100. if i want to buy a king or sunday on each. so youngel the turn in some quantity experts estimate that between 61300 hackers works for kim or pills over
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or coming up on a king on a team. so they get a little daughter together attending when to get i assume you guys have to come in so not wanted to come in and do that and can you call it out to me when i come by log in. i wanna know she got to pay way sick. what i would should experts estimate that up to $2000000000.00 have been stolen by young, highly trained north korean hackers. north korea has developed an efficient education system for its upper middle class here at young young middle school, the children who will later be computer specialist, scientists and engineers. a train to shape the future of the country to meet you. i thought i went to the, i guess fixing the chinese, i guess rather the students also learn how to use computers. they have
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access to a very limited north korean version of the internet. uncensored variety is strictly forbidden. north korea rulers know that once the doors to the digital world have been thrown open, they can never be shot again. but despite all precautions in 27, north korea face the 1st digital data leak in its history. the data of pyongyang, municipal registry with more than 2000000 entries. professor brighter obtained a copy and is currently analyzing it using special software. we never have this kind of up to date information effort. if you want to understand the system to resume to party, you can actually go about analyzing and mapping chung for 1st time and we're no
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longer dependent. and it goes on people who tell us where, where all the buildings are. we can actually now she whose inside 2 buildings with companies, there are departments there are and re, should locate them the day to prove the main building and bureau. 39 is close to the seat of power, right in the middle of the piano, and just a stone's throw away from the headquarters of the workers party. it's divided into 6 main departments and employ several 1000 people and young young alone. they have their own fleet vehicles, kindergartens, a golf course, an ostrich farm, and even their own bank. these 6 main departments are in turn responsible for hundreds of individual companies throughout north korea. they control iron or, and diamond mines, jewelry, factories and textile companies. they're mainly specialized in exporting good to
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broad other companies in the bureau and foreign exchange to force labor smuggling and insurance fraud. but one rule applies to all the name bureau. 39 is never mentioned outside north korea. busy so it remains invisible, impossible for un sanctions monitors to detect me. oh, chinese have already kind of generalized where you will know what you call those. you do your homes here and i was with all around horror as we get to go on the ground to the high schools. you guys read, you know, by hung from we'll come police a, michel, milton,
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with his own no longer the on my tongue tires and everything on your honeymoon make dollars. north korea is changing. an impoverished socialist state has turned into a country with a highly flexible shadow economy. in many ways, north career is run like a commercial company. all that matters is cash came. the work is here and no longer slaving away for the revolution. but for the wealth of dan, nita and his cronies, the gap between rich and poor is widening. while the population in pyongyang enjoys a constantly growing prosperity. 40 percent of the rural population still suffer from the nutrition. what a database shows beyond any doubt, instead of asserting,
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i know the only excess. now we can prove what it does. it owns companies, it operates these companies and exports all kinds of things. and that is actually quite and an important development in understanding how north korea managers to earn money above. we know, know exactly through what kind of companies office 39 dust is qindzhong, silk folks spinning mill, named after kim jong owns grandmother. a model factory. 1600 workers are employed here. most of them women. they sought process and boil the cartoons of the soap worms to obtain the precious yon. the phillip williams come from a province south of pyongyang, about $200.00 tons of phil could produce here every year. a luxury product expensive and labor intensive, the factories entire production is intended for export abroad,
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but the supervisors are unwilling to disclose who the foreign customers are. i'm not sure any more who suffers under those sanctions. it's a hassle, i'm sure for their friends, but i do find ways around it. one of the problems is at night, or china, nor russia is, is helping and enforcing the sanctions chromosomes close it. it's and say they don't see the tail is going on and ends on day crew. cool in general. so you guys keep on totally doesn't move shebaway till my mom sit on it. when you go to a 100 mission member number, well, you don't my mom because he had to come in to keel. sometimes, you know, when people are people, common factory textiles are the 2nd most important north korean export product
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after co all calls will be home. now the thing is, if she didn't then you were to happen who was in she will be on the go for hold on and on china, north korea gateway to the world and a symbol of how futile the un efforts are to dry out can sources of cash. ready the final korean friendship,
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french across the yahoo river. it's one of the few ways to enter or leave north korea every day, trucks. q in front of the custom's checkpoint smugglers traders and also the agents and entrepreneurs of bureau, $39.00. they're all hoping for a quick deal here. china is by far north korea is most important trading partner. financial experts estimate that 90 percent of north korea's exports go to its powerful neighbor in the north. thousands of north koreans are said to work in textile factories in the region disguised as businessmen and equipped with hidden cameras. we film in one of the factories, chinese textile companies higher north koreans, because their wages are lower than those of chinese workers. these seamstresses work day and night, and often sleep on the company premises. they're likely to be locked up for years
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far away and their families together was a team of labor lawyers, trade x data specialists, ramco broker tries to find out whether european brands work with chinese companies that directly or indirectly employ. north koreans managed to prove the existence of a significant amount of north spring slave labor in the supply chain of some of the rules leading clothing companies. the more than that chinese factories outsource to north korean centuries in north korea, basically in europe, in, in, in the u. s. we've come to an agreement that we no longer wish to find slave labor or child labor in our supply chains. but if you look closer at some of these producers, you find that sometimes up to 90 percent or for production does not take place in china. it does not take place in the factories where the european and the american
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auditors come to check whether broken conditions are decent. yes, they are in those factories, but that's only worth 10 percent of the products are made. the other 19 percent comes from, or for you. brightest team investigated one chinese textile company more closely. it's called von dest. their list of customers rates like a who's, who, of international fashion brands. the website features a man's jacket. next to it, it says korea and imported the buttons, carry a label, a mani genes using trade databases, brokers, teen analyzed, long desks, business relations between 2013 and 20. 19 the databases use customs data showing which good sent back and forth between companies in different countries. china cents the material to make certain types of close to north korea. one low, they are the ship beck in the same container. and then you have finished us. those
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clothes are again, shipped to say, to netherlands, or to germany or to america. and from there they're distributed into our source between 2013 and december 2016 long death sent around $10000000.00 worth of fabrics and raw materials to north korea. during the same period, phone desk received finished, garments worth almost $25000000.00 from north korea, who's customs classified textiles by so called h. s. coats. we take a closer look at h. s. code 62. 0 one. it stands for mens anoraks and jackets like the money jacket on the website. between 2013 and december 2016, bon dest imported garments worth $12000000.00. with this code from north korea. the
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same code is also used for deliveries from von desk to europe and the us among the customers. a money a money jacket that look exactly like the one on bone deaths website can also be bought in europe. this one costs 219 euros. it can't be proven beyond doubt whether garments like this one are made in north korea, but can it be ruled out? we ask the fashion brands a money right. we confirmed that phone desk is one of our suppliers, and as such is regularly subject to checks and inspections. the result of these checks being the no finished products on manufactured in north korea. like all our suppliers. it's also required to declare which sub contractors it uses and where these are concerned. it's also the case that none are in north korea. we've also contacted rondell to in writing. the company offered no explanation as to why and
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to what extent it trades with north korea. in one thing can be sent for certain, well known fashion brands have their goods manufactured by a chinese company that co operates with north korea. a country where workers have no rights where human life counts for nothing. broaches investigation shows that this is not an isolated incident. for years and years we've heard testimony from north korean escapees who were in concentration came today have been forced to produce textile for the export market. and i think for the 1st time i've been able to corroborate that through an external source. i'm not through a testimony in the same database. i found the department bureaucratic department that is responsible for managing the production of textiles. for one of the concentration comes outside from them. it means that we only by close,
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produced by forced labor us, maybe to slave labor. we may even buy clothes all through europe in america that was made in concentration. camps by people never see the light of day. again, these are the kinds of camps that you don't leaf until your death. that is just to her reflect, to, to put in worse. and we're complacent. ah, hundreds of thousands of men and women secretly ensure the survival of the dictatorship. their futures sacrificed for the luxury of the regime and for our prosperity. qindzhong own bands, his country like company. his bureau, 39 does business with everything. and everyone, including
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