Article 5919D 'Every boy’s dream is to be James Bond': Inside North Korea with 'Mr James' and 'the Mole'

'Every boy’s dream is to be James Bond': Inside North Korea with 'Mr James' and 'the Mole'

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Sam Wollaston
from on (#5919D)

Danish film-maker Mads Brugger's latest documentary is an absurdly brave look at Kim Jong-un's regime that has all the intrigue of a spy thriller

Physically, Ulrich Larsen doesn't stand out. Polite, unassuming, his unmemorable 44-year-old face is how I imagine an efit template might be, what you start with before you add distinguishing features. You get to decide who he is. Perfect for blending in. Or infiltrating the world's most secretive regime perhaps, which, as it happens, is what he did. Larsen is the Mole".

Jim Latrache-Qvortrup is the opposite. Forty-eight, big, bold, bearded, inked, with an expensive-looking set of teeth and an explosive laugh. Ex-military? Better still, he joined the French Foreign Legion at 19. Crime? Tick; he spent eight years in jail for drug dealing. International arms dealer, buying stinger missiles from North Korea for anyone who will have them? Actually no, but he does a very good job of pretending to be one, hardly has to act at all in fact. Latrache-Qvortrup is Mr James".

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