820: Bradley Hope | The Secret Mission to Overthrow North Korea

Bradley Hope (@bradleyhope) is the co-founder of journalism studio Project Brazen and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil. His latest book is The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime.

What We Discuss with Bradley Hope:

• Was a 2019 incident at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid an intelligence-gathering raid by political dissidents, or a secret defection operation gone wrong?
• Why the largest resistance groups committed to helping people defect from North Korea are in the United States.
• How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam without facing any real consequences on the international stage, and what this not-so-subtle message conveys to anyone thinking of acting against the regime — from anywhere in the world.
• Will there ever come a day when China ceases tolerating North Korea's theatrics?
• The illicit means by which Kim Jong-un's regime richly bankrolls itself in a starving, bankrupt country.
• And much more...

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