Jim Latrache
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And this is because in North Korea, you don't decide yourself where you live.
It's given to you.
Because in Pyongyang, to live in Pyongyang, it's given.
I mean, everybody that lives in Pyongyang is very close to the leader.
So you can imagine if you come up with a guy throwing down minimum 50 million euro, it could be a good pension for your life.
Your life would start to look better.
And that was what they were interested in.
To get weapon out of North Korea is quite complicated.
I think it's easier to get cocaine out of Colombia than it is to get weapons out of North Korea.
They suggested it would make more sense that we will build a weapon factory in another country.
So first we were looking at Namibia and I started to look at different pieces of land, but that was taken off the table because of the sanctions.
And then they came up with Uganda.
And on Google, I found this amazing real estate agency that sold islands.
And I remember I called Matt and said, I mean, this is amazing.
I mean, you cannot find anything that's more Dr. Evil than having a private island in the Victoria Lake.
I mean, with a weapon factory.
So I started negotiating.
And that was on Google.
It was not even on any secret crypticized platform.
No, we were doing it on Google.