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159. The drug dealer who infiltrated North Korea

heretics.

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jim was appointed to take part in the Mads Brügger movie The Mole. Named as Mr. James, he was tasked with pretending to be an investor in North Korea. Jim Latrache links: https://twitter.com/jimqvortrup Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:06.4

We're here for the Premier League.

0:09.1

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:12.2

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:18.0

here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums we're here for it all.

0:27.6

Barclays here for the land of football.

0:32.2

Imagine attending a meeting as an undercover spy in North Korea of all places to find out about their weapons.

0:40.0

One wrong move and you're dead. That's the position Jim Lattratch found himself in a career

0:46.8

Criminal and drug dealer Jim was appointed to take part in the Mads Bruego movie The Mole.

0:53.2

Named as Mr James, he was tasked with pretending

0:56.8

to be an investor in North Korea,

0:58.8

where he was treated like a king such

1:00.6

were the sums he was talking about putting into the country.

1:03.0

He signed a contract with North Korea to produce drugs and weapons in another country

1:08.0

before meeting them again in Uganda of all places to discuss buying an island in Lake Victoria to construct an underground

1:16.2

this is getting quite complicated isn't it drug and weapons factory that would pass itself

1:21.2

off as a luxury hotel.

1:23.7

So just to reiterate, the plan was go and find out about the weapons in North Korea,

1:29.3

meet in Uganda to discuss setting up some sort of drug and weapons factory hidden in Lake Victoria.

1:38.7

Lake Victoria is this massive, massive body of water between Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and a bunch of other places and that's where they were going to hide all that stuff.

1:48.4

So it's quite a story. It's a phenomenal documentary. There is a bit in it where Jim it really looks like he's

1:54.2

going to get caught you know and he relates that well today I would have been

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