Jack Laurence

For one of these episodes, I sat down with an incredibly interesting man named Jim Latrasche, a man who would infiltrate North Korea, going undercover for a documentary.

And his main point of contact was, yes, that's right, Alejandro Caúl de Benos.

So who is this man?

Well, we don't have the time to go completely down this rabbit hole.

But in a nutshell, Mr. De Beynel is a Spanish national who is a special representative of the Foreign Ministry of North Korea.

He is also, according to himself, the special delegate of North Korea's Committee of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

He's also the founder of the Korean Friendship Association, or the KFA.

The KFA as an organisation has a global reach, with branches across the world in Brazil, Canada, the United States, the UK and Australia.

If you want to learn more about the bizarre world of the KFA and Mr de Beno, I would urge you to watch the amazing documentary, The Mole.

Alejandro Caúdo Bernos and Christopher Ems have something in common.

They are both now wanted by the FBI and in fact named on this same indictment, where the US claims that they conspired with Virgil Griffith, a cryptocurrency expert and citizen of the United States, to illegally provide cryptocurrency and blockchain technology services to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

But more on that very soon.

And he said, look, I want to do a cryptocurrency blockchain conference in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Would you be interested in attending?

And I had a reaction that, looking back on it, was probably something that I should have thought twice about.

But at the time, I thought, wow, that's very, very interesting.

I've been watching the news.

Donald Trump's shaking the guy's hand.

I think at that time, I think most of the world thought, this is probably the last time I'm going to get to see North Korea as North Korea.

We've seen it on the TV and on all the documentaries on YouTube.