Office 39: Raising Cash for Kim Jong-Un’s ‘Ultimate Slush Fund’

Office 39: Raising Cash for Kim Jong-Un’s ‘Ultimate Slush Fund’
This picture taken on Sept. 3, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending a meeting with a committee of the Workers' Party of Korea about the test of a hydrogen bomb. STR/AFP/Getty Images
|Updated:

Evading United Nations sanctions was easy thanks to China, said a North Korean defector who once worked in Office 39, a shady money-making department dedicated to the North Korean leadership.

An anonymous defector told the ABC how part of his job was to sell North Korean gold overseas. To do that, he said it was smuggled into China where it was then sold into international markets as Chinese gold.