Good ottawa. Not to cause chaos maybe i should be. Shot. By. What secrets lie behind a small. Find out in an immersive experience and explore a fascinating world Cultural Heritage sites. D w World Heritage three sixty getting. Heres whats coming up on the bundesliga how nineteen since i fear my v. W. Now is cut take a look at what all that means for the type of course. The fund is legal every weekend here on t. W. This is a country where the war never end. Every morning at exactly six am loudspeakers across north korea sound a morning wake up Call Featuring the same melody every day. A melody familiar from a revolutionary opera. It tells the story of a young nurse at the front who has dedicated her life to the party and is searching for the beloved general who summons her to show him the way. This is a country at war against the border that divides it. All. To. Come up is that all of them i was always at the top of my class the teachers all rated me highly. Even at school there was a hierarchy among the pupils at the top youre always at the Class Representatives and the political representatives. And i always held both positions around but there is a coffee they put together that never will. It thats how i learned to give orders and how to lead people. At the border between the two koreas divided by a cold war time stand still with no Peace Agreement ever signed the war has been suspended since hostility ceased in one Nine Hundred Fifty Three in the course of the next six decades the north secretly developed a weapon that the worlds major powers believed only they had the secret to the nuclear bomb. How is a country considered one of the poorest on the planet and which is also shunned by most other nations able to afford such weaponry. Only those who were part of the system are privy to the secret. It took me years to track them down those who we were able to ask had a tragic tale to tell of Men And Women who were tasked with earning money for their country whatever the price the money of the dictators men. Seoul just fifty kilometers away from the border to north korea in the space of just twenty years the south korean capital became the fourth richest city on the planet after tokyo new york and los angeles. This is where the ordeal ends for many of the refugees from north korea. This young high ranking official from the north traveled thousands of kilometers on a Trek Across China All The Way to seoul hes been living here with a new identity for two years today he calls himself michael kim hes twenty eight years old and works part time as a museum attendant. I mean they were. This is an exhibition organized by the sole authorities there it shows a Model Apartment in north korea. To illustrate what life looks like for the residents of pyongyang there with the team is of high when this it is it was having
actually lived there myself ive been asked to explain in further detail. That you are. Both on a. Ride on what i began my career in the state Security Agency the cia of north korea. I worked in the Financial Department where i came to attention due to my expertise i was transferred to office thirty nine. Years and that was unusual. Is that you know want to listen. I was only twenty five when i joined i was the youngest member of staff there said it was how this new course is mosen bolden killed the when it offers thirty nine manages and directs all the Economic Activities of thousands of firms in factories or to know will only pay so we
hire him and the office was set up to earn money for the regime outside the country. I thought i was over there on to kind of a clue because half of north koreas Gross Domestic Product comes from office thirty nine sort of on the. Coast course you dont know we saw where. Michael fled from one day to the next without warning his family he knew too much to be able to keep on believing in the regime he decided to meet us three weeks ago he insisted on showing his face while being interviewed in the hope of becoming too well known to be secretly assassinated. Reports from men who have been involved in office thirty nine the guardians of north koreas many Financial Secrets are extremely rare there have been precious few defectors fleeing the country means putting yourself in danger as well as Family Members left behind. Limb ill on the other hand was right at the bottom of the hierarchy upon who was sent halfway around the world to work on a Construction Site in the desert of kuwait in which at the end up with zero there was agreement for me it wasnt about whether i wanted to do it time was running out i wanted to leave quickly so that we could get something to eat as our leader kim il sung died in july Nine Hundred Ninety Four and starting a year later in may Nine Hundred Ninety Five the state was no longer able to provide the normal food ration people started to panic. This was the first time they had produced the russians good i had a two year old daughter over there in order to leave you had to be married and have children if you dont have any children they wont let you out i thought a family of four or five can live for at least six months on my salary of over One Hundred Twenty Dollars a month if i sent it young young with her with
a new crew. And after two months we asked why we werent getting paid hundreds when they said they had not been instructed by the party to pay our salary for the party in north korea was kim jong il our Commander In Chief. That answer silenced us either they were hundreds of workers had to keep their mouths shut. We kept on working at night to using our flashlights. We can fight off sleep and just carry on. I kept working like that for five months and all that time i didnt get paid. I felt cheated and. Sending workers abroad was an idea first introduced in one Nine Hundred Seventy Four a Gigantic Network of clandestine companies and financial constructs gradually evolved all of them with one sole goal earning money for office thirty nine. This man was
likewise born in the north in pyongyang in early two thousand he was sent to singapore he earned tens of millions of dollars for north korea as a representative of pyongyangs North East Asia bank in Two Thousand And Three he was suspected of having passed on information about the regimes finances he fled to south korea today the former banker works for his new countrys Intelligence Agencies he supports them in their struggle against the regime he wants war eternal allegiance to our main goal is to make for in cash and this foreign Cash Business is secret. Complete the secret Office Number three ny and continued creating that the system is setup like its all north korean institutions where these foreign cash is generated there is to report it to
can to the top and then should bring that should pay that in cash to family now to joan and the fortunes of europe so she get their all this and then spend it or according to his priorities so two economies one is two Family Economy and the other one is the National Economy run by the cabinet and run by their so called you know Central Planning so to family i called it you know roy your Court Economy or your Court Economy they possess all the best profitable businesses best hotels this Department Stores in all of those services in the rest trunks they are making money for in cash and then it goes to continue now into. Soul separate economy. The money that you make will never good central economy not. Central bank. Finance ministry and trade bank they can never. What pope their nose into our business is that they can never they can not ask a tipping can gather or and then read a look at the so lets say a billion years dollar a year to get that cash in cash and then use that now Nuclear Missile program if you know consumes a lot of money its from those pocket their different will careers you know at most one hundred Fifty Thousand maybe Fifty Thousand in russia and a little more in china and others is scattered around the world so true than
fifty thought and they make a lot of money theres only. So seventy percentage of eighty percent issue of the celery cup. And sent to the state in the party so if they make all of them A Hundred Dollars then the amount is how much civil man knowing it. Put him in on. A pair were smug Fifteen MillionFifteen Million a month they dont make only one hundred years bucks a year or month then they make more maybe several hundred at least so the lower money is going to control. The volume of their cash income conjunct once funds increased dramatically in the past in the past twenty years in the past twenty years or so you can buy more and he
can. Do continue this in a Nuclear Missile program in the colony younger than the mother does or not of the way home you know who got especially in places where we have a special agreement in places like Eastern EuropeSoutheast Asia africa. We have workers everywhere. And poland the ukraine the pakistan mongolia the big distant. One. While traditional your Dwellings Dot The Modern city scape the noise from the pneumatic hammers is on the press and every day the concrete expanses continue to spread a little more in the mongolian capital. For a period of over seventy years the country had a communist regime the citys Grand Monuments honoring the eastern bloc are
a legacy of that era but after the collapse of the soviet Union Mongolia switched to the western capitalist camp people left Rural Regions in droves for the citys tar is an urgent need of new housing but lacks sufficient manpower to build it the government has therefore been hiring workers from China Vietnam and north korea for reinforcement the work is assigned the same way in each Construction Site. The mongolian workers are used for exteriors jobs while the Better Qualified north koreans for example take care of the interior. The workers from pyongyang are under observation day and night we want to approach them discreetly and first just send our interpreter. Hello hello to them all the north koreans working today sure. Do they sleep here yes. And they never go out just to go shopping thats all. And the eat and sleep here yes
inside. North korea goes to extreme lengths to prevent its workers from coming into contact with the outside world and discovering a reality that is other than the one depicted in the daily propaganda theyre only allowed to go out in groups so that they can keep an eye on each other. But in the narrow Market Aisles of all on battah we spot a north korean worker who appears to be on his own. Can we talk while we look at the shoes. Yes so. When did you come here to mongolia. Three years ago. Thats a long time yes and when are you going back home soon in a month. And have you and whats money no i have not earned
a lot of mongolian money and why not paid i didnt get much not much you know ive been working but i never got any money. They must be bad people theres a lot of bad people around really. Do you have family north korea how many childrens are there. I have one child. My wife was pregnant when i left. Ive never seen much else. So three years old three years boy or girl i got a letter saying i was a boy im desperate to go and see my son. The workers usually have three year contracts and are not allowed to go home during that time only very few use their stay abroad to defect due to their family still living in north korea they are all too aware that they would never see them again. Is mongolia covering up the presence of these workers within its borders neither of
the government nor the companies employing them were prepared to talk to us but allegedly there are Twelve Hundred north koreans in the country they are there legally at the invitation of the mongolian government. The companies transfer the salaries directly to the north Korean Embassy and. From where the money is then confiscated by the regime in pyongyang a fraction of the somme a few dozen euros a month at most is paid to the workers who use it to support their families in north korea. The Construction Workers are not the only money makers for the regime it also dispatches loggers to the forests of Siberia Peasants to farms young young even exports doctors the regimes most lucrative source of Income Acupuncturists and chiropractors are sent abroad to open practices there what they earn however goes to the regime back home and there are
three of them. Would let you into north korean waters. When we think we see you here knows very little i guess no story oh oh. Oh yes then mr quest we once in a way is our in the world the do here for how long you been here and what. You think the doctors enough allowed to talk without permission from the embassy. In. North korea reportedly generates four hundred fifty Million Euros a year from remittances earned by its citizen secretly working abroad. No records are kept of these secret funds and accounts documentation could potentially
be used as evidence Receipts Bank transfers and internal notes are systematically destroyed on the orders of the kim family. This enables the regime to deny their existence in front of the international community. But above all to the Starving Population back home they are not to get wind of the millions the kim family earns at their expense. I was a worker too. I didnt get anything for six or eight months. I worked myself to the bone. So i reckoned why not help myself this man spent many years in siberia prior to his defection he worked his way up to Management LevelFeeling Remorse he wanted to break his years of silence in the hope that his testimony could help other former Foreign Workers who are still prisoners of the
system or. Where we move on to the robot and the people positioned above the workers siphon off huge sums of money from those salaries for themselves sort of lets say our bosses land a contract for ten million. Tell us that its Seven Million and we tell our foreman that its even lower maybe five million. So even then were still able to transfer our mandatory share to the regime another trick is to negotiate fifty men for a job then we arrange to use only twenty and we send the rest elsewhere that means we can put aside a pile of money for ourselves. In a good month how much did you earn around Twenty Thousand Dollars you were in one month yes. Steve do you know how much office thirty nine earns per year and how much of that goes into developing missiles i mean it will be the ones who. Made it nobody knows that. Thats the most strictly guarded secret of all. Nobody in office thirty nine can say neither the amount for the Office Workers nor the costs for their workers or any other figure. If they were taught watered all plans to acquire Nuclear Weapons were first conceived by the regime back in one thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Three during the korean war after the us threatened to deploy its Nuclear Arsenal against the country since coming to power in twenty eleven kim jong un has launched eighty five missiles and conducted for Nuclear Tests twice as many as his father and grandfather combined the test missiles were fired over the sea of japan or in the direction of the pacific with the capability to send Nuclear Warheads as far as california john young now insists that washington would never dare to attack north korea again on nov twenty ninth two
thousand and seventeen north korea surprised the world with the test launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile kim jong un told his people that the country was now a Nuclear Power and boasted that it could deliver a Strike Anywhere in the u. S. At the same time a Group Of Eight men of different nationalities