“Murders, attacks, drug labs and arms trafficking”: an excellent defector talks about how North Korea is financed

BEIJING – Murders, attacks, computer crimes, illegal arms sales to other friendly regimes and even a laboratory created to manufacture drugs and bring the “revolutionary funds” necessary for its survival into the coffers of the hermit kingdom. For 30 years Kim Kuk-song he worked at the top of the North Korean spy agencies. “We were the eyes, ears and brains of the Supreme Leader,” he says today in a long, and very rare, interview granted to Bbc, made by Laura Bicker, correspondent from Seoul of the British broadcaster.