Like some seedy racketeer, the delinquents in Pyongyang had extorted a generous payment in exchange for talks about giving up their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
So... Basically, this guy is justifying kidnapping a teenage girl and blackmailing her father, and somehow, the English thought this was totally acceptable when they read it in his book.
According to researchers, Mexico's violent cartels also see a chance to boost their multi-billion dollar revenues through theft and protection rackets on their territory.