Jack Laurence

Hello?

Here he is.

Can you see me?

I can't see you, no.

There he is.

I feel like I should have the North Korean national anthem ready just to play on your arrival, sir.

North Korea.

You only have to say the name and it evidently invokes images of a brutal regime, a country controlled by a dictatorship that stretches back to 1948, when the founder and first supreme leader Kim Il-sung took power.

It's a country that is shrouded in secrecy.

And while some mock the regime and its leaders, of course, the now Kim Jong-un, there are plenty of people, including the country's own, that suffer at the brutality of those in power.

North Korea is a country that you can travel to.

However, it is strongly advised against by practically all Western governments to do so.

Should you decide to go against this advice and indeed make the trip to the DPRK, then be warned.

You better be an obedient tourist, because if not, well...

Not even the great leader's own brother is safe from retribution.

So what on earth possessed a man from Denmark by the name of Jim Le Trichet to not only go to North Korea, but to do so undercover as a billionaire arms dealer looking to expose this regime?

Well, before we even get there, we still have to talk about his time in the French Foreign Legion, cocaine trafficking and two stints in prison.

Yes, if this was the script for a Hollywood movie, you'd be laughed right out of the boardroom.

However, this is not fiction.

This is the life of the man that the North Koreans would come to know as Mr James.