North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has raked in as much as $22 billion in foreign earnings from 2022 to 2025, according to a Bloomberg Economics analysis. That represents a 400% rise in revenues from the previous four-year period despite sweeping global sanctions.

So how did Kim do it, and why is a richer North Korea an even bigger concern for the world?

Read more:
Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22 Billion Windfall
https://www.bloomberg.com/grap....hics/2026-north-kore

00:00 Introduction
01:55 Recent economic growth
03:48 Geopolitical landscape
05:21 Crypto thefts
06:14 Trade with China
07:03 Arms sales to Russia
09:22 Regime survival

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