Inside North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The World's Biggest Narco State?

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 53 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	January 2013, Bangkok, Thailand and a drug deal was going down.
1:06.0	On one side, a Hong Kong triad syndicate with a big claim.
1:10.0	There's a giant stash of methamphetamine, highest grade you can imagine, and it's hidden somewhere in the Philippines. the resulting bust is going to involve British Narkos in Thailand, an outlaw
1:25.0	by a gang, one of the world's most infamous drug lords and a crazy team of ex-US
1:30.2	Army snipers in the midst of an assassination plot in Liberia.
1:34.4	What this deadly band of misfits has in common, apart from the tons of drugs of course,
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