Bureau 39
Cash for Kim
How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries in the world, is funding a nuclear weapons programme that could challenge even the USA? Answer: Thanks to Office 39.
This organization is a secret division of the government apparatus. Its goal is to raise foreign currency by any means necessary to provide money for Kim Jong-un’s regime. Counterfeit money, drugs, human trafficking – nothing is too nefarious for North Korea’s money gangsters.
The documentary reveals the most spectacular cases and shows the breathtaking tricks North Korea has been using for decades to successfully circumvent UN sanctions and build its nuclear program.
ZDF-Info – 58 min.
Editor
Imke Meier (ZDF-Info)
A Production by
a&o buero filmproduktion
Co-Directors
Lukas Augustin, Carl Gierstorfer
Camera
Sam-hyun Meng, Andre Grabinski, Marc Buehler
Music
Nils Kacirek, Milan Meyer-Kaya
Graphics
KIM&HIM
Research
Wonjung Bae, Ifang Bremer
Sounddesign
Artur Sommerfeld
Grading
Andre Froelian
Narrator
Anja Welzel