North Korea fires off an anti-aircraft missile on September 30, 2021. (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap)
A former senior military officer in North Korea's intelligence agency says he does not believe leader Kim Jong-un will ever give up the country's nuclear weapons.
Over a period of 30 years of service in the North's spy agency, Kim Kuk-song, who defected to South Korea in 2014, achieved the rank of colonel.
In an interview with the BBC, he painted a picture of Pyongyang leadership desperate to raise funds, describing how he was ordered to build a lab to produce the illegal drug, crystal meth.
He said the regime also sold weapons to the Middle East and Africa.
[Clip: Kim]
"I know that the operations department made arms deals with Iran. As for the types, special midget submarines, semi-submersibles. North Korea was very good at building cutting-edge weapons like this."
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