North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The Hermit Narco-Kingdom

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When a bizarre group of international gangsters shook on a massive meth deal with a DEA agent in Bangkok, Thailand eight years ago, it kicked off a manhunt ensnaring Hong Kong Triads, Outlaws bikers and an ex-US Army sniper’s band of contract killers. But the bust also shone a light on the shady drug network of North Korea, part of a crime machine fuelling the world’s maddest dictatorship. This is the story of how a war-torn Hermit Kingdom became a narco-trafficking, cash-counterfeiting, pimping Mafia state. An Underworld Classic Merch: https://underworldpodcast.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Eddie, my own, has found us.
0:05.0	We have something he needs.
0:11.0	This world can't survive if you stay together.
0:15.0	We may not make it out of this alive, buddy.
0:18.0	Venom, The Last Dance.
0:22.0	Don't miss the epic conclusion.
0:24.0	Only in Cinemas October 25th.
0:27.0	Good tickets now.
0:29.0	January 2013, Bangkok, Thailand and a drug deal was going down.
0:36.0	On one side, a Hong Kong triad syndicate with a big claim.
0:40.0	There's a giant stash of methamphetamine, highest grade you can imagine, and it's hidden somewhere in the Philippines.
0:47.0	The would-be client nods approvingly.
0:49.0	He's a DEA agent, and the resulting bust is going to involve British Narkos in Thailand, an outlaw
0:54.7	biker gang, one of the world's most infamous drug lords, and a crazy team of ex-US army
1:00.2	snipers in the midst of an assassination plot in Liberia.
1:04.0	What this deadly band of misfits has in common, apart from the tons of drugs of course,
1:08.0	is one of the world's maddest countries where a shady government agency has become one of the biggest narco traffickers on earth,
1:15.0	feeding the desperate regime of the world's only communist king.
1:19.0	This is the nuclear bomb that meth built.
1:22.0	Welcome to the Underworld Podcast. So yeah, we're doing a North Korea episode between that and the Cuba show last week
1:48.3	would really be getting that tanky hate.
1:50.9	I think I've been wanting to do this show pretty much since we started out which is pretty much a year now by the way
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