Not much is certain about what goes on inside North Korea, but reports suggest that grinding poverty is widespread. We investigate how all those weapons are paid for and we look at the history of BBC monitoring. Today's Bangladesh is almost unrecognizable when compared with the country of a half century ago. Newly independent, but scarred by poverty and battered by natural disasters.
Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre currency reserves are another. Yet nothing so imperils Bangladesh’s economic miracle as graft and patronage at the highest levels. How does North Korea afford its flashy weapons programme? Crypto scams of eye-watering scope. And the newsmaking history of BBC Monitoring’s radio translators.
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