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Can you just come up with a company name while signing a contract for illegal arms trade?

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Mr James invents a company name in the heat of the moment and travels into North Korea with a passport that reveals his true identity.

Why does no one seem to have done any background checks on him or the company? 

- Only the North Koreans themselves know that.

But anyone who googles Mr James' real names gets quite interesting answers.

He could be anyone really with his criminal background and his business contacts and he has a holding company.

When it comes to Taga, the company name they use, there are lots of companies called Taga online. 

- The best explanation I have received is that this is shady business.

The North Koreans are used to people not playing with open cards and they know that those who deal with sanctions and arms trafficking are not so easy to check the background on.

It can also be seen in the film that they are desperate to find ways to get money into their country. 

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Can't a signature be a later problem?

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On several occasions, Mr James signs various contracts.

Has he committed any kind of crime? 

- No, he does not have it now because nothing has happened.

But if he had actually contributed to North Korea's violation of UN sanctions, then I think he could be prosecuted.

But nothing criminal has happened now. 

- Then I do not know North Korean law, but it is possible that they think he has committed a crime there. 

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Travel around the world, hotel suites and luxury gifts.

Who paid for everything?

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Travel, luxury yachts, expensive hotels and dinners are a common feature of the documentary.

Who paid for everything? 

-It pays the production company for, everything.

Possibly with the exception of the dinners in the basements where North Korea offers food and has performances.

But it has been a principle that they should pay for themselves.  

The mole Ulrich traveled extensively and appeared to praise North Korea both on social media and in the mass media.

How could his wife not suspect anything and what did she really know? 

- Ulrich says in the film that she was given a different story.

She knew he was doing film and that he was doing North Korea, but she did not know exactly what he was doing.

She had no idea that he had endangered himself or used a hidden camera.

What she's most upset about is that he lied to her. 

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Maybe it was too easy?

Was it all really about North Korea wanting to cheat them out of money?

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The drawings and models of the underground weapons factory to be built do not look so advanced.

How can one be sure that North Korea, for its part, did not try to defraud Mr James of money? 

- You can not be sure of that.

It is clear that they want to access as much money as they can.

But from all the documentation about this that we have access to, we conclude that they are serious. 

- The Triangle deal is their idea, they make the drawings and they have also said on several occasions that “now we have to get started with this, we have 25 workers that we want to send over now to Uganda and to be able to do that we have to know which of these catalog goods are to be produced there. ” 

- There are lots of e-mails and communications about the project.

Our assessment is that it is serious on their part. 

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Can one really just disappear as easily as Mr James makes it seem?

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The documentary describes that Mr James becomes a "ghost" when he withdraws from the business.

But is it so easy to disappear from the radar of a dictatorship and how do Mr James and Ulrich live today? 

- James just stopped answering emails and disappeared from all platforms.

I think he lives quite a lot as usual, it also appears in the film that he was not particularly interested in having protection.

But it is clear that the production company and the TV companies involved have a responsibility for their safety when this comes out.

You do not know what North Korea is doing. 

- Ulrich Larsen has been with KFA until the last phone call with Alejandro Cao de Benos.

At that exact moment, on September 3, the KFA leader finds out that his Danish friend is in fact a mole.

At the same time, Ulrich goes underground.

I do not want to talk about where he is now, but his safety is taken care of.

There is a program for him. 

The Mole - Undercover in North Korea is a documentary series by Mads Brügger produced by Piraya film and Wingman media in co-production with BBC, DR, NRK and SVT.

It can be seen on SVT Play.