Lives Less Ordinary
Lives Less Ordinary
BBC World Service
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
32 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2022 at 11:30 pm.
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Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network.

Jim was an unusual secret agent. He'd grown up poor in Denmark, and had gone on to become a drug dealer to the rich and famous in Copenhagen. After years in prison, he was reformed but bored. Then, a filmmaker called Mads Brügger approached him, and asked him to take part in a high-stakes sting in North Korea. Mads needed someone to pretend to be a dodgy billionaire investor interested in a sanctions-breaking weapons deal. It was a perilous mission, failure would mean prison or death.

Presenter: Emily Webb

Producer: Harry Graham

Editor: Munazza Khan