Inside North Korea's BILLION-Dollar World of Fake Money

North Korea is the most sanctioned country on Earth — banned from international banking, cut off from global trade, and isolated from the world economy. So how does the Kim regime generate an estimated one billion dollars every year? The answer is Bureau 39, a secretive department inside the Workers' Party of Korea running one of the most sophisticated criminal operations ever built. This video breaks down how North Korea constructed a state-run counterfeiting factory using a Swiss intaglio press, European paper suppliers, and stolen ink chemistry to produce fake hundred-dollar bills so perfect the US Secret Service called them the best counterfeits in the world. We cover how a single US Treasury action against a tiny bank in Macao shut down the entire supernote operation overnight — and how Bureau 39 pivoted to cybercrime, building the Lazarus Group into a hacking unit responsible for the Bangladesh Bank heist, the Axie Infinity crypto theft, and the record-breaking 1.5 billion dollar Bybit hack in February 2025 using a supply chain attack through a compromised third-party wallet platform. We also examine Bureau 39's shadow portfolio of front company restaurants doubling as intelligence operations, diplomatic pouch smuggling networks across Africa, and an insurance fraud scheme so brazen North Korea hired British lawyers and sued European reinsurers in a London courtroom — and won. Join this 'Paper Pilot Club' to get access to perks:    / @beyondfacts   SUBSCRIBE: https://www.bit.ly/beyondFactsSUB #northkorea #dollar #beyondfacts Credit: https://sites.google.com/ytmgltd.com/...