North Korea is boxing far
above its weight. How is it possible that one of the poorest
countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program
large enough to challenge the USA? The answer: Bureau 39, a legendary
organization nestled deep inside the government apparatus. Its aim:
to procure foreign exchange by any means possible to provide Kim
Jong-un's regime with money. Printing dollars, dealing drugs,
smuggling arms, insurance fraud, human trafficking - nothing is too
unscrupulous for North Korea's money makers. Film shows a unique
access to insiders who reveal the most spectacular cases and
breath-taking tricks of how North Korea has been circumventing UN
sanctions to finance its nuclear arsenal for decades.
Biography:
Sebastian
Weis is a producer and reporter at
VICE in Berlin, Germany. He studied literature at the University of
Saarland before he made a journalistic training in Berlin. Weis
worked for several German broadcasters like ARD, ZDF, Deutsche Welle,
and Deutschlandfunk. In 2015 he became a news reporter and producer
at VICE and worked in conflict and war zones like Syria, Iraq, and
Mali. His VICE documentary on the refugee crisis in Germany, “Room
for Rent,” was awarded with the People’s Choice Webby Award 2016
in the category News & Politics: Individual Episode.
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