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Zone Rouge
Zona Rouge or the Red Zone.
It is a chain of disconnected areas in northeastern France that the government isolated after the First World War.
The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometers (463mi²),
was deemed too physically and ecologically damaged by the conflict to be inhabited by humans.
It is described as "Totally devastated. Property damage: 100%. Agricultural damage: 100%. Human life - impossible".
Instead of starting procedures to immediately clean up the former battlefields,
it was decided to give the land time to restore its flora and fauna.
Despite the fact that the control areas have been greatly reduced, the restrictions in the Rouge Zone still exist today.
According to French law, activities such as housing, agriculture or forestry are temporarily or permanently prohibited in the zone,
due to the huge amounts of human and animal remains,
as well as millions of unexploded ordnance, found in the territory.
Some towns and villages have never been and will never be rebuilt after the war.
The area is littered with unexploded shells (including many gas shells), grenades, and other dangerous munitions.
Soils are heavily contaminated by lead, mercury, chlorine, arsenic, various hazardous gases, acids, human and animal remains.
The area is also dotted with ammunition depots and chemical plants.
Several tons of unexploded ordnance are recovered from the area each year.
According to the Sécurité Civile, the agency responsible for the cleanup,
at the current rate it will take another 300 to 700 years to completely clean up the area.
There are areas where 99% of all plants are still dead. They remain strictly prohibited for people to approach!
Room 39
Room 39, or officially Bureau 39 of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of North Korea,
also referred to as Bureau 39, Department 39 or Office 39,
is believed to be a secret North Korean party organization looking for ways to maintain a slush fund for the country's leaders.
A slush fund is a fund or account that is not properly accounted for.
This is money used for corrupt or illegal purposes, especially in the political sphere.
Such funds may be kept hidden and kept separate from money that is used for legitimate purposes.
Slush funds can be used by government or corporate officials to discreetly pay influential people in exchange
for preferential treatment, insider information and other favors.
The funds themselves may not be kept secret, but their source,
how they are acquired or for what purposes they are used are strictly hidden.
The organization is believed to bring in between $500 million and
and $1 billion a year or more and is involved in all kinds of illegal activities,
such as counterfeiting $100 bills, manufacturing narcotics, converting opium containing morphine
into more powerful opiates, international insurance fraud and others.
Room 39 is the largest of the three influential offices on the so-called third floor, along with Room 35,
which is in charge of intelligence, and Room 38, which deals with legitimate financial activities.
Room 39 is believed to be located in a building of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang,
not far from one of Kim Jong Un's residences.
All three offices were originally located on the third floor of the building where Kim Jong Il's office was located,
hence the nickname "Third Floor".
Room 39 has been described as the fulcrum of the North's so-called "court economy" centered on the Kim dynastic family.
According to Kim Kwang Jin, in 1972, Kim Jong Il established the Central Party Department called "Room No. 39",
which was named after the number of the office where he began working.
The Office was originally under the Finance and Accounting Department
of the Central Committee of The Workers' Party of Korea.
The Chosun Ilbo reported that Room 38, led by Kim Jong Il, was merged into Room 39 in late 2009,
but the two were separated again in 2010 due to difficulties in obtaining foreign currency.
In early 2010, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Kim Dong-un,
the head of the department, had been replaced by his deputy, John Il-chun.
He is the first deputy director of the party's central committee and a former classmate of Kim Jong Il.
Room 39 is also involved in the management of foreign exchange earnings from foreigners' hotels in Pyongyang,
gold and zinc mining, and the export of agricultural and fishery products.
It is believed to operate networks of illegal and legal companies that often change their names.
The number of companies believed to be controlled by Room 39 was at one point reportedly as high as 120 in number.
These include the notorious Zokwang Trading and Taesong Bank.
Many of the $500 million worth of textiles North Korea exports each year are falsely labeled "made in China,"
and the wages of the roughly 50,000 North Korean workers sent abroad to work are reported
to have added $500 million to room 39 income.
In 2009, a Washington Post report exposed a global insurance fraud scheme by the North Korean government.
Room 39 is also believed to run an overseas North Korean restaurant chain called Pyongyang.
In 2015, the European Union placed Korea National Insurance Corporation KNIC
under sanctions and added that the company had links to Room 39.
KNIC, which has offices in Hamburg, Germany and London, was reported to have assets of £787m in 2014.
It was established that the company was involved in fraud in the insurance markets and investing in real estate and currency.
Thae Yong-ho, a North Korean diplomat who defected in 2016, said North Korea was making
"tens of millions of dollars" each year from insurance fraud.
If you want to know more about room 39, behind the scenes, dirty deals,
smuggling and more of the regime in North Korea, you can watch the video
The Dark SECRETS of North Korea /The Kim Dynasty/ on our channel.
It rains until Khavari
Vale do Javari, or Javari Valley, is one of the largest territories in Brazil, covering 85,444 km2 (32,990mi²) - an area larger than that of Austria.
It is named after the Havari River, which is the most important in the region.
Since 1851 it forms a border with Peru.
The Brazilian government declares it illegal to enter the territory of the reserve.
The area, along with its inhabitants, is protected and monitored by the government from the air.
Valle do Havari is home to many of Brazil's indigenous peoples of various tribes, including Matis, Mace, Culina and others.
The reserve's population is estimated at more than 2,000 individuals belonging to at least 14 tribes.
Deep in the reserve, they live in about 19 aerially identified villages.
According to Fabricio Amorim of the Fundação Nacional do Índio, the region contains
"the largest concentration of isolated groups in the Amazon and in the world."
Because of the long isolation of the tribes and the encapsulation in which they lived,
our environment would be detrimental to them.
The viruses and bacteria we have encountered and built immunity to over decades are unknown to the valley dwellers.
Any contact with humans from the outside world could be disastrous for their entire civilization.
Metro-2
Metro-2 is the unofficial name of an alleged secret underground metro station parallel to the public Moscow metro known as Metro-1.
The system is believed to have been built or at least started during the time of Joseph Stalin
and is codenamed D-6 (D-6) controlled by the KGB.
Most likely, the project is still managed by the Directorate General of Special Programs and the Department of Defense.
Metro-2 is said to have four lines that are laid at a depth of 50 meters (164ft) to 200 meters (656ft).
It is said to connect the Kremlin with the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB),
the government airport Vnukovo-2 and the underground city of Ramenki, as well as other places of national importance.
In 1994, the leader of an urban exploration group, the Underground Planet Diggers,
claimed to have found an entrance to this underground system.
However, historical evidence suggests a much more conservative picture, such as only one
"line" existing in the late 1960s, from the Kremlin, also called Site 103,
to Site 54 south of Moscow State University, from there with a spur moving northwest to the area
of the Matveevskaya railway platform and DV-1.
Additional lines to Vnukovo were probably built at a later stage in 1970-80.
In the summer of 1992, the literary and journalistic magazine Yunost ("Yunost") presented the author and screenwriter
Vladimir Gonik's novel entitled "Preispodnyaya" (English: Abyss).
It takes place in an underground bunker in Moscow.
Earlier, in the spring of the same year, excerpts from the novel were published in the weekly newspaper Top Secret.
In an interview with Gonik in 1993, the author stated that the novel was written based on information
gathered over the previous 20 years about things like secret bunkers and connecting underground railways like the Metro-2.
Gonick admits that he worked on the book between 1973 and 1986,
and that some of the more sensitive information was purposefully distorted.
In later years, he claimed that the bunkers and the so-called "Metro-2" were intended for use by the leadership
of the Politburo and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),
along with their families, in the event of war.
According to him, in the early 1970s, CPSU General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev personally visited the main bunker
and in 1974 awarded the then KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov with the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor.
Each member of the Central Committee is assigned 180 m 2 590 sq. m. ft. apartment, with study,
living room, kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom.
Gonik claims to have gathered this information while working as a doctor at the Department of Defense polyclinic.
Since the publication of the novel in 1992, the subject of a second, secret,
underground railway has been raised repeatedly in the media.
Russian journalists report that the existence of Metro-2 is neither confirmed nor denied
by the FSB or the Moscow Metro administration.
The ghostly Varosha
Ghostly Varosha is a resort district in the city of Famagusta, de jure a territory of Cyprus,
but currently occupied by the unrecognized Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Varosha has a population of 226 according to the 2011 Northern Cyprus census. Its area is 6.19 km2 3.8 sq.mi.
Varosha's name is derived from the Turkish word varoş (варош, "suburb").
The walled and netted Varosha was a valuable and popular area until 1974,
when the Turkish invasion of Cyprus began, and the city's Greek Cypriot residents fled.
The city of Famagusta fell under Turkish control, and the largest tourist resort of Varosha remains abandoned to this day.
In 1571-1878, Famagusta was a small Turkish village under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1878, the Turks leased the island of Cyprus to the United Kingdom.
At the beginning of 1900, the British administration transferred the Turkish lands in Varosha
to the Greek Cypriots, without notifying their Turkish owners and without their consent and permission.
In the early 1970s, Famagusta was the number one tourist destination in Cyprus.
To accommodate the growing number of tourists, many new buildings and hotels have been built.
During its heyday, Varosha was not only the number one tourist destination in Cyprus, but between 1970
and 1974 one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world,
a favorite of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot.
To date, the buildings in Varosha are ruins.
Some streets are overgrown with vegetation, and some parts of the once thriving resort complex look like a ghost town.
John F. Kennedy Avenue, beloved by many tourists, reached the port of Famagusta, running parallel to Glossa Beach.
Along JFK Avenue today, the remains of many famous hotels of the past can be seen, including the King George Hotel, Asterias,
The Grecian, Florida and the Argo, which was a favorite of Elizabeth Taylor.
The other major street in Varosha is Leonidas, a main street that exits
JFK Avenue and heads west toward Vienna Corner.
Leonidas was the main shopping and leisure street in Varosha, consisting of bars,
restaurants, night clubs and a Toyota car dealership.
The good news is that this government-forbidden place to visit for over 50 years is starting to open free areas for tourist tours.
In 2020, several groups of tourists are allowed in certain areas of the resort.
In the last few years, there have been intense negotiations for the repopulation of this territory
despite the ongoing contradictions of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus, whose hostage in their negotiations
is one of the most beautiful resorts in the world. But nothing is known!
We hope that in a few years we will be able to visit this area not as tourists left behind the military fences,
who see the area under the strict control of the military, but as free excursionists spending their summer vacation there.
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