How North Korea Smuggles Luxury Cars
North Korean leaders enjoy some of the most luxurious items money has to offer, even after facing a number of international sanctions. These sanctions essentially prevent many countries from importing goods into North Korea. So how does North Korea obtain all these goods? In this episode of Xplained we take a closer look at how North Korea smuggles cars and other luxury goods.
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Actually during the cold war it was much more easier. NK will send cargo jets to Easten European countries. NK agents will source goods from Western Europe and cross the Iron Curtain. Load the goods on the plane and fly them to NK.
Paid for so he was helping western economies. They must be begging him to come back.
@@sanjayvaidya4925 He is still buying. Mercedez benz cars and rolex watches doesn’t arrive in NK by magic.
@@divinewind6313Kim wears IWC and other respectable brands; Rolex is for peasants who just had earned their annual bonuses.
You mean to UK?
Why does Kim jong want foreign cars when he doesn't tolerate even foreign clothes?
Because the media is lying
Because they all love and appreciate Europeans and Americans. Everyone on Earth does. That's why the hate.
Hes got around £5 billion why wouldn't he indulge.
@@christopherkelly577 if he hate others fashion, trend,lifestyle, westernised culture, etc., Then he should used his 5 or whatever billions of money he has and create, invent his own things., It's like hating the raw meat and loves to eat it.
Because North Korea can produce clothes but not luxury cars.
And they still haven't paid for the Volvos which they "bought" from Sweden in the 70s
Another great videos well done,
That means you can do everything If you have a lot of money Nobody cares about who you are Even a bad guy😂
thats common sense
Common sense slow boy
Very good video! I like it!
This sort of stuff is fascinating. Especially these ships going dark. Where I can I learn more?
Ask an Ai 😂
Ais is an identification system about ships, it'll give you informations about ships name, location, destination, etc. Actually its forbidden to shut down by international laws. But ships which sailing to the embargoed countries like Iran and N. Korea, they forge documments like they went another country's port and shut down their AIS.
He could literally buy them in China and drive them straight over the border. Why doesn't he? While it would be far easier, it would also be far more expensive. Even Kim is on a budget.
That's correct.
everyone knows they give North Korea pesticides, industrial equipment, electronics, food, etc but the reason no one cares too much is because you can argue those go to keeping people alive, everyone does military service but thats only because theyre forced to. civilians are civilians even if they are forced to bootlick. if u drove a Benz across the only bridge between them, that wouldn't look too good, that only benefits the general driving it. China has to save face, even when it's an open secret how they really act. in fact, having a positive public image is their main PR strategy
He is broke af and survives only on drug industry and aids donated by China and Russia
Why buy car when China been given then nukes
Why would it be more expensive?
Nice information
Where there's a will there's is a way. You can never stop smugglers because when you do another one will pop up so you're fighting a losing battle.
Servicing The Rolls Royce in NK could be an interesting exercise !
No company sends their engineers.
@@amittribe7614 That's the point of my comment -who can do it without technical codes and proper parts!
Send the vehicles across the border to China, everything can be done in China
@@feldons5621 china can do it
Why would anyone want to get a Rolls serviced when records say more than 800 luxury cars were procured by Kim in just 2 years (2015-17). He probably uses his cars for as long as they are usable and then scraps them.
The credit to the story should go to The New York Times - Visual Investigation Series.❤
Radio and TV have been ripping off newspapers forever. Same shit, different day.
That's not xplained, that must be exposed
Looks like the car manufacturer could build something into the car via satellite to control the operation. If the satellite is found and tampered with, it would render the vehicle useless.
Their already doing this, but for commercial profit. Some new cars have subscriptions based services for physical systems like heaters.
Why would anyone buy such a car? unless it's an optional anti theft system.
@@alexm566 That's just it, they don't want them purchasing luxury goods (cars) because there is a ban on goods going to N. Korea.
@@alexm566 you won’t have a choice, since Tesla introduced such a concept more and more car manufacturers have put subscriptions based services in their cars.
@@Kishanth.J North Korea doesn't have internet access.
In 90s we in Serbia had total UN sanctions..like even oil and medicine was banned for import..everything was sanction for us ..but still if you watch old videos from Belgrade motor shows in 90s it had almost all models on display like in Geneva. I remeber how my father bought gasoline,i went with him few times ..he would go to border with Bulgaria ,he would bring lot of empty canisters ..there was field where Bulgarians came ,some with cars ,tractors ,truck..anything..they would empty their reservoirs ,there were lot off buyers and sellers on that empty field..my father would buy enough for few months and then return
We were else unified against Serbia then against North Korea. I can support a little essential smuggling into Serbia the same way as Afghanistan since small smuggling doesn't defeat the purpose of the sanctioning
It goes dark when it enters the underground tunnels that connects NK to Chinna
Freight cost is more then the actual car cost 😂
Weird seeing a Lincoln Navigator on a hidden cam video of Jaka Parker and he drives a japanese car. Not the Toyota or Honda, but a Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia.
Would be a nice trick to plant some electronic devices on these cars and make him easier to target
Smuggle? He gets them from China. He doesn’t need to smuggle anything in.
Money is always a friend. The owner of it is immaterial.
This video is basically a copy of the new york times investigation publised 3 years ago, even down to quotes, graphics and details. I'm surprised that no one noticed this blatant act of plagiarism or copying. The original video is here: kzhead.info/sun/dbeeaa58jZWwiJs/bejne.html
Only the content (general open truth) has been copied, not the whole video so I doubt if they can be accused of plagiarism.
I swear i watched almost this exact video a while back by another youtuber? I just cant mind who
This is what your country looks like when a real gangster is in charge
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1:04 the old “assault rifle ammo” thing again.
That in no way shape or form is it a maybach 600. That vehicle he owns is a W221 Mercedes Benz S550 that has been stretched to be a limo. It’s next gen is the W222 which did offer a maybach trim
That Mercedes-Benz is ex Putin's limo
Wondering how much "kickbacks" do they get....
The irony lol doesn’t like western ways but yet enjoys western things lol
Russia too - even Putin!
Actually he loves western stuff but somehow he wants to keep the image of him hating all western, which is weird since everyone see and knows that he loves it
He grey up in wealth and even lived in Switzerland ffs. He is renown for enjoying luxery goods , no matter the origin , he only claims to dislike western stuff because of the obvious political implications.
@@usercman861 Nope he promotes American stuff.
Someone can buy the Cars and then just resell it to Nordkorea 🤷♂️
The whole point is to make the trade route ambiguous.
Not all that easy - custom built armored cars aren't available at a car dealership. You have to order them directly and car companies do a lot of due diligence before selling them as they don't want terrorists to get a hold of them and then figure out how to defeat them....
@@ckm-mkc Some unknown guy orders an armoured limousine usually ordered by Governments for their head of state and the company doesn’t know where it will end up…… Yes we will believe this story.
@@divinewind6313 they probably disguised themselves as people working with a certain country's government to trick Daimler A.G. They would also have kidnapped or threatened some people who are in charge of logistics along their planned route to help for their plan (even hijacking the ship is possible)
@@chenyeanmingtakumi9033 A simple phone call to the concerned Embassy would sort the matter out after all the cars cost more than a million dollars. Also how they are paid. Its not like they hand over Daimler cash in a carry bag.
Idk about NK, but in Iran most of these cars go for $400k dollars, or half a mill. Shipping is expensive!
Who's smuggling cars? Everyone, but I cant wait for this video info.
There is no such thing as assault weapon ammunition. Each gun has a special caliber 1:29
That's what you call a double007 special
Need to throw anyone in jail that keep letting him smuggles stuffs over his country
Jesus somebody did a video on a subject on this!!!!
How are these cars serviced?
From China
Nice Mercedes car, 대통령김정은 , best regards from Indonesia of the South East Asia ❤
Let Mr. Un have some fun 😂😂
It’s simple really he got the link with Raymond Reddington🤫
Next they shall smuggle you to NK for interrogation 😂
Speechless.....
How do they service those cars?
Engineer will come from China
I know exactly from who the car came originally
Maybe he said to Mercedes CEO gave me car or get nuke and Mr ceo prefer the car option.
Would not be that the world is blind in one eye and cannot see out of the other,or he has friends in high places!!!
He’s the only one in the country that has a car
maybe you are right
wrong,many rich and gov officials has cars,common citizens has bicycles
@@lpniranjankumar It seems Kim Jong Un recruited you
@@whitewolf2767 lol,maybe you never saw any video about North Korea,Kim is not the only one who has car in NK.
@@lpniranjankumar Go to NK
They dont smuggle anything, they buy cars from another country
Isn't this video stolen from NYT's Visual Investigation
I think that North Korea is a pretty weird place and I cannot belive they got it to one point where nobody knew about the outside-world like dose it only take one generation to do that or what -reed
Cargo Secured.
Interesting....
This is stolen from others work here on youtube
Ask European countries how they still get energy from Russia. Same the tracking system went missing for few days
I want to go see the midnight sun.
Gotta be sad having to do this much just to get a car.
Not sad to Kim
Everyone got a price
I came for part 2 from Tiktok 😂
basically you just copied the video of the new york times and even included one of their clips. lmao
Cool job I need a car like that
DPRK citizens need to rise up, but that’s their issue. If the north really claims to be Korean, it’s not showing.
We should gift him a luxury car with the seats soaked in anthrax ……..
Way to rip off this video from a Wall Street Journal video done a year ago. This is no Contant just you ripping off other video ideas
Routes, not rates lol
I love how the hypocrisy and propaganda show every time
Can't they just borrow some from China?
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Something tells me that the Russian dude likely sold that car to Kim Jong Un and they made it look like the ship was robbed.
My thoughts on this v video are to turn North Korea into glass
At least he's not importing nuclear weapons that's good 👍😁 in fact why he has weapons against enemies of his country because they invaded it? wouldn't you agree but not sanction against their country is placed on by who else
That’s not a Pullman
Russian is sanctions too. They can't use that route now
The 2 benz was bought from nol van vliet in the Netherlands
North Koera ows sweden alot of money for buying volvo in 70-s
Oh, ok. Perhaps they can sue them ? 🤣🤣
So all that you said is real?
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0:03 Cars from Serbia
It's not smuggling these cars are sold directly by the car 🚗 companies.
Dude, the importing is illegal under international law, it’s smuggling.
Classic dictator stuff. Starving people but the boss usually has money for cars, caviar and what is it about having Swedish secretaries? 🤔🥝🇳🇿
Kim has his ways to get shit done.
So Mercedes has no idea who paid $1.5M for their car?
It's ex Putin's limo
Boris Johnson is the main suspect
All hearsay
My taught? It's just sad. North correan people will don't know why they can't eat
Déjà vu
Money can buy anything except the politicians in the USA 🤣🤣🤣
How can you say this exactly🙂? We can do anything when we have money🙂
you legit stole this video info and idea
Every comment don't know this story happen when they're not born yet
exposed
What's wrong with North Korea sharing their cash with the west
Muybachhh
how stupid. They don't smuggle them, they just buy them
All while the desperately Hungry eat the Dead!
Crazy how majority of North Korean people are starving and their dictator is swimming in the money.
Manufacturers should install remote shut down to prevent such things from happening.
In iraq we have a lot of europian stolen super cars or cars that were under loan they take them outside eu or just steel them, how they get them if the car travels into any border after 3-4 months of incident it gets taken away from the owner and sent back to eu so the cars are stuck forever there are rare lambos without keys that are stuck and left to rot bcuz they cannnot get a key since it’s stolen
@@zhyarrr North Korea is probably far less willing to cooperate on that matter to return stolen cars.
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