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for meeting with the man
of his dreams,

Mr James, a dapper Scandinavian
oil billionaire.

So how did you set it up?

Mm-hm.

What kind of investments
into North Korea

would President Alejandro Cao de
Benos have on offer for Mr James?

Go.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Sorry, just to interrupt,

but what sort of cover story
had you developed for James?

I mean, Alejandro presumably would
have done some checking

on the background of James.

So he didn't need to know the name
of this oil billionaire?

Did he discuss what types of
business he would be looking for?

Meeting with President
Alejandro Cao de Benos in Oslo

gave a whole new perspective on
the Korean Friendship Association

because, officially, the KFA
is a peaceful organisation

which works to promote North Korean
culture, history and values

through its members in more than
30 different countries...

..including the official delegate
for all of Scandinavia,

the mole.

Was the KFA really being used

as a front for dealing with weapons
and drugs from North Korea,

with Alejandro as the spider
in the web?

Or was Alejandro Cao de Benos
playing us in order to get to

the deep pockets of Mr James?

And who was Alejandro really?

Simply a buffoonish braggart
acting as a useful idiot

for the regime in Pyongyang?

Or was he a highly connected
and sophisticated

international criminal?

At last, the mole had found his real
mission and true purpose -

follow the lead of
Alejandro Cao de Benos

and see where it takes us.

So, what happened
after this meeting?

For the first time ever,
the brave soldiers of the KFA

would have their annual meeting
without their president -

a perfect chance for the mole
to rise in the ranks.

PHONE RINGS

Next, the mole and Mr James
went to Madrid in Spain

to meet with Alejandro Cao de Benos.

Through me, Mr James had an order
ready for North Korean weapons

as well as methamphetamine.

Would the president of the
Korean Friendship Association

be open for business,

now that he was being investigated
for arms trafficking?

So, Alejandro took James entirely
on trust, on your recommendation?

And what was that story?

So, at this meeting in Madrid...
Yeah.

..does James give any ideas about
why he wants, why he's interested

in buying this sort of materiel?

At this point, he's stuck in
Spain... Yeah. ..for legal reasons.

But he can organise your trip
with James to North Korea.

Going on a secret mission
to North Korea

calls for careful planning,

so I had my first in-person meeting
with the mole and Mr James together,

making sure that Mr James especially

knew the most important rules
of the game.

Hi, Jim. I'm Annie.
Pleasure to meet you.

Lovely to meet you, too.

If we can keep the answers
as brief as possible

and as precise as possible,
that would be appreciated. Sure.

So, what was your perception
of the possible risk at this point?

SHE LAUGHS
Erm...

I was also worried for the mole.

Mr James had been
around the block.

He could fend for himself.

But what about the mole?

He was just a retired chef.

So, I took him to see a teacher
who could give him a crash course

in what is known as "tradecraft"
among spies.

In short, I took him to see Max,

a former CIA agent.

If he makes a mistake,
he could find himself...

..tied up in the centre of town
with a blowtorch...

..as an example
for nobody else to do that.

So...

But why trust a former CIA agent

with the identity and secrets
of the mole? It's a good question.

Max had been fired from
the Central Intelligence Agency

and was not in good standing
with the company any more,

which made it safer to trust him.

I'm going to kill you.

Why?

OK, yep.

Anyway, I was in need of someone
who could teach the mole the ropes

before he returned to North Korea.

If somebody's holding a gun on you,

you're not going to expect them
to...take it away.

All right? All you're looking for
is a split-second edge.

And besides, as the saying goes,

who can you trust these days?

Observation skills.

What I say, what's common
is common... Yeah.

..and what ain't, ain't.

That means if it's common,
that's usual for the area,

OK, that's normal.

If something stands out,
it stands out for a reason,

so you've got to be aware
of your surroundings.

You might as well give them
your phone and say,

"Here, look at it," because
that's how easy it is nowadays.

You have to assume they can read
all of your messages.

So, when they look at
your emails accounts,

they can go way, way, way,
way, way back.

They're going to feel like
you betrayed them.

You didn't really believe
in...socialism or communism.

You didn't really believe
in North Korea as a place to go.

You didn't really believe it.

That was all just...
You were a mole.

Be careful that they don't set
a trap for you.

So, like, when they walk out of
the room and leave papers,

don't touch them,
don't go near them.

Then, they can say, "Oh, we knew
he was going to go through these."

You don't care about those. Don't
even think about messing with that.

I tell you what, you are a hero
of mine doing this.

It's very dangerous.
So, this is the real deal. Yeah.

Safe journey. Thank you, Max.

Godspeed. Thank you. Bye. Bye now.

Right in the middle of
these anxieties,

an American university student
was arrested in North Korea.

NEWSREADER: ..was sentenced
to hard labour

for stealing a propaganda poster.
The Warmbier...

His crime was simply
stealing a poster

from his hotel in Pyongyang.

NEWSREADER: Another American
front and centre

in Pyongyang's propaganda parade.

Otto Frederick Warmbier,

a University of Virginia
business major,

making a dramatic,
emotional confession.

Warmbier's parents issued
a statement today...

VOICE FADES OUT

So, can you tell me what happened
when you got there?

MUSIC PLAYS

POP MUSIC PLAYS

VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYS

OPERA SINGING

OUT-OF-TUNE SINGING

WOMEN SING

APPLAUSE

So, how did the deal progress
once you were there?

GUNSHOT

GUNSHOT

So how long did this, erm - shall we
call it a courtship period - last?

Two days. OK.

LOW CHATTER

INDICATOR CLICKING

Under a basement... Yeah.
in a rotting house. Yeah.

Were you frightened?

MEN SPEAKING KOREAN

Is this when this photograph
was taken?

So, can you tell me who is who?

Mm-hm.

Mm-hm.

OK.

HE LAUGHS

Mm-hm.

Like a sort of menu? Yeah. OK.

And what sort of weapons
are we talking about?

So this is all on offer?

Yeah, this is what we were just
handed over the table.

Wow! So we've got Scud missiles?
Yeah.

So, you can get five Scud missiles
for $14 million.

Missile launchers. Yeah.

So we're going up to Scud-E missiles
now. Yeah. Good God.

$25 million.

Yeah.

And that's a high explosive warhead,
and that's thermobaric. Oof!

I mean, that's as close
as you can get to a nuke... Yeah.

..without it being a nuke.

What's this?

The arms factory? Yeah.
Yeah, OK.

All signed and sealed, as well. Yes.

And what was Ulrich doing
during this meeting

when you were signing contracts?

He was allowed to film?!

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

And where is that?

At this point, you're in a secret
underground lair in North Korea,

facilitating the signature
of a weapons contract.

What is going through your head
at this stage?

APPLAUSE

And Alejandro is aware
of all of this?

MUSIC PLAYS

APPLAUSE

And did the Koreans have
any preferences

when it came to countries,
or suggestions?

So, to sum it up,

you are now a North Korean
weapons dealer and broker?

Yes.

NEWSREADER: Good evening, and it's
great to have you with us here

on a Monday night. And we begin
with late developments today,

the worsening horror for
a mother and father from Ohio.

Their son, who was just returned
from North Korea

with severe brain damage,
has now died.

Since the moment their son
was sentenced

to hard labour for stealing
a propaganda poster,

the Warmbiers were fighting
until he was released.

The look in his eyes, which I didn't
know he was blind at the time,

was absolute horror -
horror like he'd seen the devil.

And he had. He was with the devil.

Back in Copenhagen, I was shocked
to discover what my two proxies

had accomplished in Pyongyang.

They had brought real, raw
intelligence with them.

As the scholar Andrea Berger writes
in her study Target Markets,

very little is known about pricing
on North Korean weapons systems,

but here was a fully detailed menu
in hard copy.

Mr James being appointed
as a North Korean arms broker

seemed like the figment
of a sick mind,

but here also was a signed and
sealed contract,

drawn up in English
by the North Koreans.

Before Mr James came along,
only a few non-Koreans

had been known to broker weapons
for the regime in Pyongyang.

Back in 2011, the British arms
dealer Michael Ranger was arrested

for brokering a deal between
Azerbaijan and North Korea,

but he was a highly experienced
arms dealer in a dangerous game

RUSTLING

ZIPPER ZIPS

To prepare the mole for his next
mission, Alejandro would now provide

guidance on how to operate
as a businessman in Uganda.

OK.

OK.

Oh, OK.

for experts, let alone amateurs.

Nevertheless, Mr James and the mole
had scored a jackpot.

RUSTLING

ZIPPER ZIPS

To prepare the mole for his next
mission, Alejandro would now provide

guidance on how to operate
as a businessman in Uganda.

OK.

OK.

Oh, OK.

You were mic'd up?