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Ulrich Larsen infiltrated Friends of North Korea International in 2009. Year after year, he built trust with his North Korean contacts. In the end, they trusted him so much that he learned some of the deepest secrets of the regime.
- North Korea is willing to sell advanced weapons, such as long-range missiles, to individuals.
- North Korea will facilitate the production of synthetic drugs for sale in the Western market.
- North Korea is cooperating with various financiers to circumvent severe sanctions against the country.
- North Korean embassies are used to support this activity.
Spectacular footage
Equipped with a hidden camera, Ulrich Larsen, and eventually a hired “Norwegian” businessman, has had several meetings with representatives of the North Korean regime around the world.
The spectacular images of luxury suites in various countries and deep bunkers in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have been brought together in a documentary series. It was released today, simultaneously in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the UK.
– As an intelligence operation, this is one of the best I have seen. The implementation and the result is absolutely incredible. It is good that people can now see how this arms and drug trade takes place, and how poor third countries are exploited, says experienced intelligence officer Ola Kaldager.
For a decade, he headed the top secret department E14 of the Norwegian intelligence service and managed risk operations in countries such as Iraq, Syria and Sudan. You have seen all three episodes of the documentary series.
– What they have done has had a very high risk. If North Korea had understood what they were doing, they would have killed them. Now, on the other hand, the post will work like life insurance for them, says Kaldager.
Ingen James Bond
Ulrich Larsen is not a James Bond. He calls himself an ordinary man. He is a chef and father of two children from a Copenhagen suburb. When he received disability benefits in 2009, he watched a documentary about North Korea, “The Red Chapel.” It got him hooked on the strange dictatorship.
– I wanted to know more about the country. And to my great surprise, I saw that there were people in Denmark who supported the regime, he tells NRK.
In the documentary, Ulrich Larsen and his “Norwegian investor” meet several leaders of the North Korean arms industry and representatives of the regime.
In a bunker in the capital, Pyongyang, they sign a contract in a solemn ceremony. The signature ends with cultural elements and dancers. The contract describes North Korea’s secret methods in detail:
- North Korea will supply weapons and methamphetamine to the investor’s company.
- These products will be completed in an underground factory in an African country with friendly connections to North Korea.
- The communist dictatorship will build the factory and supply it with parts of weapons produced in North Korea. They will also provide experts in methamphetamine production.
- Payment will be made in part through oil and fuel tanker trucks. The UN has just tightened sanctions in this area, and North Korea desperately needs oil supplies.
Ulrich Larsen and the representative of a “Norwegian investment family”, simply called Mr. James, photographed in connection with the signing of a contract in a bunker in the North Korean capital.
In this way, the country manages to defraud these sanctions. No pre-made weapons are launched from North Korea, but the parts are much lighter.
In the same way, several international oil corridors have developed methods to get oil cargoes through the blockade. Among other things, they operate under false names of tankers, falsify documents and deceive the international satellite monitoring system.
– Natural talent
Intelligence expert Ola Kaldager believes that Ulrich Larsen’s naive appearance has been a major reason for his success.
– He’s a natural talent. You hardly ever see him, it’s due to both looks and lack of charisma. It is a gray mouse, which can pay long before it is suspected.
– You’ve managed to win the trust of North Koreans by being kind and seemingly harmless. It’s the fruit of the years of trust-building work you’ve done, says Ola Kaldager.
– Are you surprised by what comes out about North Korea in the documentary?
– No, this is how it works. What’s surprising is that people can now see it, he says.
You think the documentary has been tampered with.
NRK has presented the information that appears in the documentary “The Mole” for North Korea, and for the actors accused of facilitating the arms and drugs trade, and breaking sanctions.
North Korea has not responded to questions and has declined to be interviewed about the case.
The Spanish leader of the Association of Friends of Korea, Alejandro Cao de Benes, denies the allegations and says he was playing a game when he was filmed with a hidden camera. The purpose, according to the Spaniard, was to obtain more information about what the infiltrators planned and then pass it on to the corresponding authority. He considers that the documentary has been manipulated and that his statements have been taken out of context.
Jordanian Hirsham Al Dasouqi, who in the film signs a contact about the transportation of oil and fuel to North Korea, also believes that the documentary has been tampered with. He says his motivation was to scam insiders for money to remedy his own financial problems.
