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Jim Latrache

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
564 total appearances

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What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And that's actually how it started.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I think it was first when I stopped working that I thought, oh, I guess this is what I'm doing now.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I'm coming from the countryside.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I'm not born in Copenhagen.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I come 60 kilometers outside Copenhagen.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And the town I'm from, it's like a working class town.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And I grew up with like, you want to be a lawyer, you want to be a doctor, you want to become a politician, become a dentist.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I mean, all those people you were told, this is the people you want.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I mean, this is what you want to achieve.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

They're the top of our society.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

They're the one with the answer.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And suddenly, when all those people become your clients, it's a little bit difficult to see what you do is wrong.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Of course, you know it's not entirely legal, but I didn't see myself worse than in Denmark in the 80s and the 90s, you had like cigarette smugglers.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

who got cigarettes in without tax.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And those guys, they were almost seen like freedom fighters because people were pissed about this to pay so much on taxes.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

It's funny how that the law, in some way, people say, oh, that's criminal, but this is not really criminal.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So it was also that way I saw myself at that time that I didn't see what I was doing was that bad.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

Let's not get into numbers.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

No, let's say in the beginning, it was just a big party.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So it was a whole new world that opens itself to me.