All language subtitles for The.Mole.Infiltrating.North.Korea.Part.2.2020.720p.WEB.H.264-PTP

You had a volunteer, ten years ago,
saying he could infiltrate a North
Korean Friendship group in Denmark.

You said that wasn't really big
enough for you to investigate,

but you'd stay in contact

and if it became bigger,
then you could revisit it.

It did.

I used to work for
the British security service,

otherwise known as MI5,

so the film team has asked me in
to debrief you.

He is a retired chef. Mm-hm.

He resides in the suburbs of
Copenhagen,

together with his family.

Do you happen to know if he's told
his wife what he was doing?

I don't think so. No?

And, over those early years,
your mole had progressed up

the hierarchy of the North Korean
Friendship Association

until he was
a position of influence in Europe

and knew the head guy in Europe.

Do you think Alejandro is dangerous?

You brought in a fake businessman.

He has to play the part of Mr James.

And suddenly the North Koreans get
very excited about the

possibility of weapons trading,
or drug smuggling, or whatever.

And deals are cut,
contracts are signed.

So, what I want to think about is
where does that leave us now?

And did the Koreans have
any preferences

when it came to countries
or suggestions?

The mole speaks about how they are
going to produce methamphetamine

and weapons, and then
Alejandro Cao de Benos says...

DETECTOR BEEPS

I knew, if something is
going to happen here, it's over.

BEEPING

HE SCOFFS

BEEPING CONTINUES

CAR STARTS

HE EXHALES

What happened next?

HE GROANS

So, just to be fully clear here,

he was fully briefed on the plans to
build the secret factory in Uganda?

Loved the idea. OK. Yeah.

In Uganda, Mr James
would be the playmaker.

Yeah, OK.

And to have it all on camera,

he brought a photographer
who was filming

for a covert video about his life
as a man of international mystery.

And the mole,
he brought his hidden camera.

So, what happens next?

Is that...?

And who is he?

NEWSCASTER: Earlier this month,
North Korea threatened to fire

missiles towards
the US territory of Guam.

This provoked the US president
into threats of war.

North Korea best not make any more
threats to the United States.

They will be met with fire and fury

like the world has never seen.

LAUGHTER

How had you found
the island in the first place?

LAUGHTER

EXCITED CHATTER

MAN: We are waiting for someone.

Your sister? Your brother?

MAN: I will show you one on the
other side and then we are done,

and then you have an idea
of all the things.

Did you get an impression that they
had something out of the box,

so they had done this before and
had a standard plan,

a standard look for disguising
these sort of facilities?

They had worked with other
people like this?

How can that be done?
Was the government involved?

We were really crazy as well.

Thank you.
APPLAUSE

GROANING

LAUGHTER

THUMPING MUSIC PLAYS

So, although the true purpose
of the project was not

revealed to the Africans,

buying the island in Uganda

and using it for a secret weapons
and drug factory

seemed to be right up
the alley of the North Koreans,

which was kind of important
to prove.

But it did not stop there
because, while in Uganda,

the North Korean arms dealer
Mr Danny was ready to take

the joint venture a step further.

Yeah, we can meet in the lobby.

North Koreans needing to move
armaments to Syria is

actually a very interesting
piece of information,

so please allow me
to digress a little bit.

Historically, North Korea and Syria
have been friends for many years

and the North Koreans were even
building a nuclear reactor

in the Syrian desert until the
Israelis decided to blow it up.

During the civil war in Syria,

the New York Times published
a story about how North Korea was

helping the Syrian regime
with its chemical weapons programme.

At the same time, small arms
from North Korea have been found

in the hands of fighters
from the Islamic State,

but most likely these weapons were
stolen from the Syrian army.

So, when the North Korean arms
dealer Mr Danny wants to send bombs

and projectiles to Syria, the end
user is probably the Syrian regime.

So what did you say to Danny

when he suggested that you
help with the Syria move?

Something I still feel bad about is
sending Mr James to Beijing

to meet with North Korean arms
dealers.

People who are in the know about
the dark side

advised us strongly against it.

Because if the Chinese
intelligence service would shine

their lights on Mr James, it
would be another ball game entirely.

But Mr James is a man
who craves action

and I am a film-maker who craves
sensation, so he went anyway.

Both men are North Korean.

I know this because sometimes
they speak Korean to each other

in the dialect of the North.

Asking for names of clients

and contacts in the world of arms
dealing seems to be a show stopper.

And what was the power dynamic
between these two?

Was the enigmatic Stoneface
summoned to Beijing

in order to verify the identity
of Mr James?

He never says a word,
he does not even smile,

so we can never know for sure
about Stoneface,

but it is safe to say that
his appearance made a difference.

Yeah.

HE LAUGHS

HE LAUGHS LOUDLY

So, when did they contact you again?

Hm.

My actor, Mr James, seemed to be
taking on a life of his own.

That was a concern.

Another concern was the mole going
back to Spain to brief

Alejandro Cao de Benos about the
Tourism Project, the code name

chosen for the underground weapons
and drugs factory in Uganda.

By now, the mole had been undercover
for more than seven years

and paranoia was running high.

So far, no intelligence service
had caught onto us,

but, every time we met with
Alejandro Cao de Benos,

we had to consider the possibility

that he was being followed
by spooks.

At the same time, we also had
to consider the risk

that Alejandro would upgrade
his counter surveillance

with new devices
for discovering microphones.

From now on, the mole would only
meet with Alejandro in a hotel

chosen by us with security
on standby next door

in case his cover was blown.

Soon Alejandro would spring
another surprise on the mole,

but first a piece of nostalgia.

You see, going to North Korea
with Alejandro as my tour guide

back in 2006 left
a long-lasting impression on me.

Apparently I had also left
a long-lasting impression

on Alejandro Cao de Benos

and so had my first documentary
about North Korea, The Red Chapel.

The film stars two Danish-Korean
comedians who go to Pyongyang

and lampoon the leadership,

which means that I am not Mr Popular
in North Korea any more.

HE SPEAKS ANOTHER LANGUAGE

Sarcasm aside, Alejandro Cao
de Benos is a man who thinks big.

During the meeting in Barcelona,
Alejandro tells the mole

of an ambitious plan
for a triangle deal

involving Mr James, North Korea
and a Jordanian businessman.

Which is...?

If the mole could get Mr James to
Spain, Alejandro will introduce him

to his plans for triangular trading.

HE COUGHS AND LAUGHS

Hmm.

LAUGHTER

So my two proxies,
the mole and Mr James,

went to Jordan to find out
if there really is a man named

El Dasouki who wants to triangle
with them and North Korea.

Have a nice day.

BELL RINGS

I guess that's the food.

Yeah, sure, sure, sure.

ANNIE: So was the contract
actually signed?

They signed the contract.

For how much?

NAME BLEEPED OUT

Here, El Dasouki mentions
a major Jordanian power broker,

but, due to legal reasons,
his name cannot be disclosed.

Next, the mole was asked
to go to Sweden

because a package was waiting
for him to be picked up

at the North Korean embassy
in Stockholm.

Like my sort of movie!

So...

Thank you for the ride.

Then, in this tale of intrigue
and deception,

a new character made his appearance.

It was Mr Ju, a North Korean envoy
who came to Copenhagen

to do business with Mr James.

Last time the world met Mr Ju
was on the Australian version

of 60 Minutes, where
he acts as a smiling mouthpiece

for the regime in Pyongyang.

LAUGHTER

And did Alejandro
know about this deal as well?

Now the North Koreans would discover

that Denmark also is
a very alcoholised country.

Chin-chin!

Had Mr James chosen to honour the
contract he signed in Copenhagen,

he would have to wire
millions of dollars to El Dasouki

in Jordan as payment
for oil to North Korea.

In return, North Korea would deliver
manpower and products

to the island of Mr James
and so goes the triangle trade.

From his office in Jordan,
El Dasouki was now

threatening legal action unless
Mr James honoured their contract

and showed him the money.

Meanwhile, the North Korean
weapons dealer, Mr Danny,

who we met in Uganda, was pushing
for a meeting with Mr James

in order to "speed up" the business.

They met in a hotel in Cambodia,

where Mr James was taken to the next
level in the circle of trust.

GUNSHOTS

In Cambodia, it became apparent
that the sanctions are working.

The North Koreans are desperate
to find clients who will buy

their weapons and it seems like
Mr James is their big white hope.

And what about
the triangulation deal?

Where's that left at the moment?

So this is where you left it? Yeah.

They still trust you.

But not for long.

The investigation had gone
as far as it could,

so Mr James had to disappear.

Thanks to my intervention,
Mr James went off the grid

and simply vanished, no longer
answering his phone nor his emails.

In short, Mr James became a ghost.

Meanwhile, the mole was taking care
of business

as the KFA delegate of Scandinavia.

First, he went to London to protest
against the BBC,

together with his comrade in arms,

the British delegate of
the Korean Friendship Association,

Mr Dermot Hodgson.

Then the mole went to Spain
for his last in-person meeting

with his president,
Alejandro Cao de Benos.

Several items were on the agenda.

And old carpets on the floor.

But most important was the sudden
disappearance of Mr James.

To top it off,

the mole had been chosen as the host
of the annual KFA meeting.

It was I who wrote the speeches
for the mole

and now he would
deliver his final sermon.

As I had planned it, the mole
would share the fruits

of the top-secret work he had been
doing with his mentor Alejandro.

Following the annual KFA meeting,

one member of the
Korean Friendship Association

praised the Tourist Project on the
message board of the KFA.

Alejandro told the mole
to delete everything at once.

Also, a member named Jean Paul
left the KFA

because he panicked about
spying and hacking.

At the end of this,

I hired the former intelligence
officer Annie Machon.

Before she went rogue
and became a whistle-blower,

she was working for the British
security service, the MI5.

Her exploits as a whistle-blower
have made her controversial,

but that is of no concern to me.

I am only interested in
her qualifications as a spy.

Running long-time undercover agents
was her line of work,

as was debriefing
agents at the end of their missions.

If someone has put ten years
of their life into doing something,

and they've been very solitary
in what they're doing,

they do need a chance
just to tell someone exactly

what they went through.

It's almost like a confessional.

And, of course, you do want to,
to reward them at the end of it,

even if it's just with a recognition
they can't really tell anyone about,

apart from perhaps their wife
or their husband.

But it is that recognition
that's very important

when they've been working
undercover for so long.

Such as a lavish dinner?

A lavish dinner usually works
very well, yes.

And I want to raise a toast to you
both for what you have achieved.

I think it's probably the...

..most impressive private
intelligence operation

I've ever heard of.

How are you going to protect
these two guys

from any reprisals
from the North Koreans?

Regarding Mr James, he simply
refuses to be...

SHE LAUGHS

..you know...protected or
advised about security.

OK.

Erm, we have prepared for an
after-care programme for the mole,

also taking care of his security.
Mm-hm.

And his family?

And his family as well.

Erm...

What I am more concerned
about regarding the mole is that

being the mole has been
a part of his identity

for more than ten years, you know?

So, what will happen
when we bring him in?

Entering any form of secret-type
world is very seductive -

I know from personal experience.

And, for those who have been
living a double life,

with all the danger and the
adrenaline rush and everything,

it is incredibly difficult, often,
to go back to mundane reality.

In the long-run,
we all must face reality.

So, finally,
I went to the suburbs of Copenhagen

to see where the mole lives

and meet with him and his wife.

It is a long story,

but let's cut to the ending.

Mm-hm.

HE EXHALES

HE LAUGHS