Yeah, there was a lot of stories that basically came out about these North Korean restaurants,

that were open all over the world.

I think they had annual revenue of $24 million.

It was important to get foreign currency because North Korea struggles with that.

Because of incidents like this, and some actual defections as well, they basically had

to close them.

This is really kind of kidnapping in its most bald sense by South Korean intelligence

services.

And for more information about them, again, listen to our episode with Tim Shorak.

Yeah, the Unification Church.

Yeah.

And the South Korean intelligence services also will find defectors with stories that they

like, and they will boost those people into foreign, often English language media.

And a big, so think of also a lot of the, I'm not going to use the word lurid anymore.

What's a synonym for lurid?

Easy, unbelievable, sensational stories that you hear about North Korea, right?

A lot of them will say, like, you're looking at the damn, you're up at 5 a.m., right?

You've already done your orange theory workout.

You've drank in your mother fucking green.

When did you find out about orange theory?

Very recently.

I think someone died there.

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