Earlier this month, director Mads Brügger made waves with his latest documentary series, “The Mole,” which uses ten years of secretly-recorded footage to implicate North Korea in back-end weapons and drug deals.

Leveraging hidden cameras, the film features two undercover Danish actors — Ulrich Larsen and Jim Latrache-Qvortrup — who pose as a loyal member of the Danish Korean Friendship Association and as an arms dealer named “Mr. James.”

Less than two weeks after the film’s Oct. 11 debut, Brügger sat down with NK News podcast host Jacco Zwetsloot to share behinds-the-scenes details on why he decided to make another