Did North Korea Smuggle $100 Million of Heroin Overseas? | Investigators

Prison in Australia was probably a paradise compared to life in North Korea, which is just one big public prison anyway. I bet they were disappointed and terrified to learn they were going back

The ship may be flying N. Korean Flag, but the smugglers were the Chinese, they did NOT speak Korean, they spoke Chinese. It's more like the Chinese drug dealers were using a N. Korean ship to smuggle drugs. The drugs were marked with Khun Sa's label. Khun Sa was the son of a Chinese soldier who fled to Golden Triangle. Khun Sa is known for producing the purest heroin in the world market, usually at 99.9% purity.

what a story.. well they gotta make their money somehow..

this needs to be a full length documentary, thats crazy

yes, yes they did

I absolutely love these North Korea documentaries.

so stoked to finally see a good documentary done on this story, been following this one for over a decade.

The crew were held at Barwon prison in a unit on their own with normal maximum security freedom. They stayed as a tight knit group doing everything for the captain. Always polite and compliant for staff. The captain would have them assemble on the basketball/tennis court regularly where he would address them. One of our officers was in the navy at the time of the incident and was on a pursuit rib pursuing the pong su. The boat was in rough conditions and hit a wave where the crew were thrown about in the rib. He sustained back injuries that absolutely gave him grief from then on.

$100m of heroin in Australia is like what..a gram and a half??? How do people in Australia afford their drugs??

Honestly I’d rather be in Australian prison than live under tyranny and starvation

"They were bringing essentially six bags ashore, we recovered 5 and we believe one was lost at sea". Suuuuuure, one was lost at sea. See what you did there ;)

What a history! Thanks, Vice.

Word of advice.. Any time you are looking at 20+ years in prison for a guilty verdict from a plea deal .. TAKE IT TO TRIAL!

Why on earth did they deport those other men? They had to have known they'd face reprecussions for failing.

Wong Ta Sa sounds like Singaporean hokkien slang. Especially at 4:36 with the word KNN, tia bo. haha

You have to feel some pity for those NK guys. It might not only be them getting executed, but their whole family might have suffered some sort of punishment also. The one NK guy could have begged for leniency, but he wore his little pin with honor and love for his leader, shows how brainwashed the country is.

Kim jong un: I will have my American dream

22-24 YEARS?! For being forced into it.

If police didn't have a CI they wouldn't know hardly anything about the operations

"The sheer audacity of them actually coming down to Australia and park right next to the coast of Australia" -Native Australians when these British people showed up