S8 Ep904: Greg Scarlatoiu details North Korea's role as an arsenal for Russia and Iran, providing missiles and tunnel technology for profit. Kim Jong-un's survival strategy relies on nuclear weapons and maintaining relevance among allies. (2/16)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 1:29.4 | Scarletu, President and CEO of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, we can peek in a little bit |
| 1:34.3 | after the fact, perhaps, of North Korea's activities. |
| 1:38.3 | Greg, a very good day to you. The meeting in Beijing, dominating the headlines these last days between President Trump |
| 1:46.6 | and President Xi Jinping striking to me when I was looking over the material for our conversation |
| 1:53.3 | today, how North Korea, to my mind, in the readouts from both sides, did not come up even once. |
| 2:00.0 | And that was not the 20th century or even the early 21st century version of North Korea. |
| 2:04.8 | It was always there as a troublemaker those days when George Bush's administration, |
| 2:10.0 | Barack Obama's administration, would appeal to Beijing, |
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