Thursday, October 1, 2020

Bureau 39: Cash for Kim




 An investigation into how a secret North Korean agency manages to finance the country’s nuclear arsenal.

The answer is through Bureau 39, a secretive organisation hidden deep inside the government apparatus. Its aim is to procure foreign exchange, by any means possible, to fund Kim Jong Un’s regime.

From printing counterfeit dollars and profiting from slave labour sent overseas, to illegally selling arms, committing insurance fraud and widespread computer hacking, the inventiveness of North Korea’s sanction busters knows no bounds.



No comments:

Translate