ships under full flags and fake names. according to the un, this is enabled north korea to send large quantities of weapons and military equipment to syria. between 201220178 says at least 40 shipments with prohibited cargo from north korea passed through the suez canal. then the us managed to have one of the delivering intercepted. so we found something called go on its way to syria. these were acid resistance. titles involves which could be used in chemical weapons development. but also miss l. fuel is highly corrosive and 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, syria scientific studies research center. the s s i'll see,

which is responsible for a serious ballistic missile chemical weapons development program. the russians did insist the chemical weapons produced in the s s l seized labs have been used by syrian dictator, bashar i'll against his own people for years. many of those who died in agony, one 3rd of all buildings in syria have been destroyed. the regime and damascus has been planning for the time after the civil war ends and hope to receive billions of dollars from international donors for the countries of reconstruction. the armies of work as required as it come from north korea, as formerly agreed by the 2 countries at a meeting in june 2019 here to pyongyang is looking forward to a lucrative business. the money this area to buy office $39.00, it goes straight into the coffers leadership. it is used on the one hand to provide

for luxury items. it is used to pay for the new mercedes benz car stats somehow found their way into korea despite the sanctions. but it also is also used and this is probably more important to deliver the best hackers. you can, you can train s barely estimate eighty's kim jung il started training the most talent of children in terms of mathematical abilities and program abilities to become cyber anchors. they're also good money earners. ransomware, like the one across fires, for example, 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 doug. want to cry squarely on kim, john owns army of hackers, british intelligence officials and microsoft had previously concluded that groups

associated with the north korean regime were responsible for the want to cry. hack in soul, i t specialists have north korean hackers squarely in the sites. simon troy works as a consultant for south korean intelligence agencies could washing and we've been following the activities of north korean hackers for 10 years now. in the past, they've been primarily attacking the south korean ministry of defense and other government agencies are key since around 2015. it's become clear that their interest has shifted to international bank committee. north korea has limited access to the internet with only 1000 ip addresses available to the country. many a used by north korean computer specialists to attack other countries. experts say that between 601300 hackers are at work for the regime. and estimated

$2000000000.00 may have been diverted by young, highly trained north korean hackers to fund the countries nuclear weapons program. the north korea is changing. an impoverished communist state is now a country with a highly flexible shadow economy. and as the commercial companies, all that matters are american dollars cash for came the workers here and now slaving away, not for the revolution, but for the wealth of their leader and his cronies. as the gap between rich and poor widen. ah, well, the population impugn yang, enjoy constant growth in prosperity. the un says that 40 percent of the rural population still suffer from malnutrition. in order to control it people the regime employees, old school, also a terry enroll north korea's underground economy. on the other hand is 21st century

capitalist den. don't china? me? ah, north korea gateway to the world under symbol of how few child the un efforts have been to dry up can sort of cash. ready me sign a korean friendship bridge across the jani river has connected the 2 nations since $943.00, every day, trucks queue up in front of the custom's checkpoint, it brings together smugglers traders and also the agents and entrepreneurs of office 39, only them hoping to make a quick deal here, china is by far north korea as most important trading partner. according to economics experts, it accounts for 90 percent of north korea's export trade. the

thousands of north korean women, i believe, to work for textile manufacturers in the dunden region. posing as businessmen and equipped with hidden cameras. we film inside one such factory chinese textile companies, higher north koreans because there were which is lower than those of the domestic workforce. these seamstresses work day and night, and often sleep on the company premises. many are effectively locked up there for years, far away from their families. together with a team of labor, lawyers, trade experts and data specialists, remco broker has been investigating where the european brands work with chinese companies that directly or indirectly employee, north korea. we found different things and one of the things we were

actually hoping to establish was the use of north korean workers in chinese factories as well. as we found, really to our surprise is, is we do have north 3 and workers working under slaves like conditions in china and more than that. chinese factories outsource to north korean centuries in north korea. managed to prove the existence of a significant amount of, nor stream slave labor in the supply chain of some of the world's leading clothing companies. broaches team took an especially close look at one chinese textile company with the french name von dest, or east, and wind. the firms own website states that it relies on low labor cost and abundant human resources. the list of customers reads like a who's, who, if international fashion brands, the wrong dest website features this men's jackets described as korean imported?

the buttons bear the woods armani jeans using trade databases broke his team, analyze, drawn death, business dealings between 2013 and 20. 19 the databases use customs information showing which goods to send back and forth between firms in different trees. so what happens is that china sense the material to make certain types of clothes, to north korea, one love or the ship beck in the same container. and then you finish close dose close 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 loan dest sent around $10000000.00 worth of fabrics enrollment period to north korea. during the same period, the company received finished garments west almost $25000000.00 from north korea.

customs classified textiles by so called harmonized system codes. i ladies sweater for example. we'll have a different h s code than a pair of men's genes. we take a look at h, his code 621. it stands for mens anoraks and coats, including the money jacket on the website. between 2013 and december 2016 von dest imported products, with this code with $12000000.00 from north korea. the same code is also found with deliveries from von desk to europe and the u. s. among the customers, diesel and money. money jackets that look exactly like the one on the own desk website can also be bought in europe. this one costs 219 euros. it's impossible to prove beyond doubt that governments like this one

a made in north korea. but at the same time, can it be ruled out? we asked the companies implicated to comment amante's response. we confirmed that phone. dest is one of our suppliers, and such is regularly subject to checks and inspections. the result of these checks being no finished product, the manufactured in north korea. like all our suppliers, it is also required to declare which subcontractors it used it, and where these are concerned. it is also the case that none are in north korea, wheels directive own dest, the company offered no explanation as to why and on what scale it trades with north korea. one thing can be said for certain big name, fashion brands have their goods manufactured by a chinese company that does business with north korea. a country where workers have no rights where human life counts for little or nothing. and breakers investigation

shows that this is far from an isolated case chinese firm, these factories in north korea to produce goods with hundreds of millions of dollars. for years and years we've heard testimony from north korean escapees who were in concentration. camps today had been forced to produce textile for the export market for a famous rest of brands. and i think for the 1st time i've been able to corroborate that for an external source, i'm not through a testimony in the same database. i found the department of bureaucratic departments that is responsible for managing the production of textiles for one of the concentration comes outside from them. i mean, we know that by close produced by forced labor us maybe to slave labor. we

may even buy clothes in the netherlands in germany 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 then you don't thief until your death. that is just to heretic to, to put in worse and we're complacent. ah, hundreds of thousands of men and women secretly ensure the survival of the p on young regime, their futures, the sacrificed for the luxurious lifestyle of the powers that be, and also for western consumerism. and convenience, kim jones own is perhaps not so much in unhinge dictator as a coolie calculating businessman who run to the country like a company, ah, and office $39.00, does plenty of business with everything and everyone,

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