Bureau 39: Cash for Kim (Part 2) | People and Power

How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth, manages to finance a nuclear weapons programme?

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.

In this two-part investigation, filmmakers Sebastian Weis and Carl Gierstorfer gain remarkable access to whistleblowers previously involved in these activities. They reveal how for decades North Korea has been circumventing UN sanctions to finance its nuclear arsenal and how Kim's money men have repeatedly managed to outwit the West.

[tobankaugusareeya]

Good. Now let's talk about the slave labor in Qatar and how they treat and exploit their workers like withholding their passports and paying them less wage to absolutely nothing.
I don't like hypocrites. Charity begins at home AJ.

[castle]

This is a fantastic documentary, really eye opening, gives a great view into what the country really is all about

[marcomolinero]

This is a lesson in all shadow governments around the world. Not many things said here that we haven't already found out about with the CIA.

She says " in Pyongyang the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider"
Well that's everywhere in the west right now. This truly is an insight into Shadow governments and not only North Korea's

[TomZimmerlinkat]

Big compliments to the graphics department. Fantastic visuals

[johnhuang]

The irony of Al Jazeera talking about slave labour, when Qatar (whose govt funds them) is notorious for using slave labour to build their football stadiums

[MichellePondueCruz]

This is one reason why buying secondhand is SO important. Saving items from landfills is great, but saving the lives of people is even better.

[wilwong]

Every human needs to put food on the table...

[igormarcos]

(I am not knowledgeable about those topics, just sharing thoughts)
From this small series I conclude to myself that prohibiting tends to lead to violence, like the old and now lift US prohibition of alcohol, and nowadays the marijuana or other substances prohibition, seems like prohibition tends to generate black markets or violence or crimes or other bad things, and as embargoes are also, in a fact, prohibitions, it is not unexpected because there is precedent of what prohibitions do and that maybe they are not near the best option(or options). There must be a way of learning and dealing with it in another way that is not embargoing, just like the war on drugs must find another way to find how to deal with without prohibiting.

[hayaglamazonluxe]

Awesome Part 2! People and power never disappoints

[janesmith]

Very well made. The fashion companies need to do more checks and perhaps given the way China is outsource to the UK and US not to China for a start. Secondly we need to fight harder against the hackers and get the slave labourers out of Poland. We also need to get much more information into North Korea so the ordinary people know how different South korea is. Let freedom prevail.

[chuanlu]

“Once the door to the digital world is open, it can never be shut again” -- GFW disagrees with it

[eliudamunime]

So hackers are no longer Russian but North Koreans

[yoshimusmaximus]

... So I'm getting that the problems with everything around the world
Are these Large Companies

[inch]

bad advertising for Armani though i love the programme was so educative

if all this is real, the methods of that ''bureau 39'' are too similar with me mafia methods ...

[andreasrs]

what if North Korea let a super dedicated spy pretend to be a refugee who "escapes" to the South, probably gets a high tier position at some Security department in the South and then runs back off to the North

[janbazrindbaloch]

In Pakistan north korean ambassador was alleged of selling banned alcohol at very high price

[pistolpeetlokk]

Because of the choices of a few men, millions suffer !

[Zeus]

Qatar...North Korea - mutual love of slave labour ❤

[kimjongun]

You're telling the world that Chinese and Asian textile goods come from North Korean workers.Why do I feel this is a trade exclusion?, like what the US does to Malaysia now?