820: Bradley Hope | The Secret Mission to Overthrow North Korea
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Bradley Hope (@bradleyhope) is the co-founder of journalism studio Project Brazen and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil. His latest book is The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime.
What We Discuss with Bradley Hope:- Was a 2019 incident at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid an intelligence-gathering raid by political dissidents, or a secret defection operation gone wrong?
- Why the largest resistance groups committed to helping people defect from North Korea are in the United States.
- How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam without facing any real consequences on the international stage, and what this not-so-subtle message conveys to anyone thinking of acting against the regime — from anywhere in the world.
- Will there ever come a day when China ceases tolerating North Korea's theatrics?
- The illicit means by which Kim Jong-un's regime richly bankrolls itself in a starving, bankrupt country.
- And much more...
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| 0:21.3 | North Korea is really good at perception. |
| 0:24.1 | They look ridiculous sometimes, but there's a purpose to this. |
| 0:28.1 | They want to scare people to never talk about North Korea again. |
| 0:31.7 | They could have done something else. |
| 0:32.9 | They could have done something quiet. |
| 0:34.4 | They could have assassinated Kim Jong-A and made it look like a crime. |
| 0:37.6 | But they wanted it to be public to scare people. |
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