Jack Lawrence

So Christopher Eames is a young bloke from the UK who has found his way into the world of crypto.

Working for a company called Bitcoin.com, he's invited to North Korea for what he's told is a cryptocurrency conference.

So far, the trip has been really what he'd expected.

A little bizarre, but nothing at all seemingly that sinister.

In fact, if you want to see just what it was like for Chris and his group of other tech enthusiasts on this tour of North Korea, you can just jump onto YouTube and watch any of the many videos of others who have taken a trip here.

Because every single foreigner gets exactly the same experience and structured tours.

However, when Chris arrived in North Korea, it was slightly different, because in fact, it hadn't been long since the American President Donald Trump famously shook hands with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The two leaders shook hands.

Trump on South Korean soil, Kim Jong-un in the North.

They were separated only by a narrow concrete strip, the demarcation line between the two Koreas.

President Trump asked and was invited to cross the first sitting American president to set foot on North Korean soil.

So far, so good.

But eventually it is time for the so-called main event, the reason they have all been brought to North Korea, the Cryptocurrency Conference, which Chris says seemed incredibly poorly organised.

garbage and of course you know this is where we go into the indictment of course when you're doing that you improvise right because you're not just going to read a piece of paper that makes no sense reading this indictment against chris from the united states they have a paragraph that is supposedly word for word what chris would get up and say at this conference and it states the following

a great honor to be leading this delegation here in pyongyang to explain to you a bit about finance and more specifically about blockchain within finance my name is christopher ems i am the technology advisor to the korean friendship association which has done a lot of work outside in support of the dprk and the great leaders kim il-sung and kim jong-il so today we're going to explain to you

payments and how you can use this technology here in the DPRK.

To start with, I'm sure a lot of people in this room work within the banking system will understand how predominantly the United States controls the way in which money moves around the world.

And this can be very, very unfair.

So the conference continues on and Chris says it's so utterly boring and monotonous that people are starting to fall asleep.

One thing that would be brought up in the indictment against Chris and Virgil would be certain outfits that they would wear to attend this conference.