{"id":166123,"date":"2023-06-21T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-north-korea-built-the-worlds-largest-criminal-empire"},"modified":"2023-06-21T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T06:23:11","slug":"how-north-korea-built-the-worlds-largest-criminal-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-north-korea-built-the-worlds-largest-criminal-empire","title":{"rendered":"How North Korea Built the World\u2019s Largest Criminal Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mARuprQI_-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how can North Korea afford its nuclear program and the luxury goods for its leadership when its economy is effectively cut off from the world? Well\u2026 let me tell you a little secret.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to support the channel, check out my Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ExplainedWithDom\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ExplainedWithDom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Selected sources and further reading:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/event\/north-koreas-criminal-activities-growing-proliferation-challenge\">https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/event\/north-koreas-criminal-act\u2026-challenge<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/press.armywarcollege.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1348&context=monographs\">https:\/\/press.armywarcollege.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article\u2026monographs<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airuniversity.af.edu\/JIPA\/Display\/Article\/3285265\/the-state-as-a-transnational-criminal-organization-a-north-korea-case-study\/\">https:\/\/www.airuniversity.af.edu\/JIPA\/Display\/Article\/328526\u2026ase-study\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/row\/RL33885.pdf\">https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/row\/RL33885.pdf<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/events\/open-to-all\/organised-crime-north-korea\">https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/events\/open-to-all\/organised-crime-north-korea<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moneyweek.com\/19827\/north-koreas-criminal-economy\">https:\/\/moneyweek.com\/19827\/north-koreas-criminal-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how can North Korea afford its nuclear program and the luxury goods for its leadership when its economy is effectively cut off from the world? Well\u2026 let me tell you a little secret. If you want to support the channel, check out my Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ExplainedWithDom. Selected sources and further reading: https:\/\/www.wilsoncenter.org\/event\/north-koreas-criminal-act\u2026-challenge. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}