Brief Synopsis:

North Korea is boxing far above its weight. How is it possible that one of the poorest countries in the world finances a nuclear weapons programme large enough to challenge the US? The answer: Thanks to Bureau 39, a legendary organisation 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, smuggling arms, insurance fraud, human trafficking – nothing is too unscrupulous for North Korea’s money makers. Years of research have given the film team 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.