Horrifying new findings show that Kim Jong Un is exporting thousands of North Korean citizens to Russia to work under slave like conditions.
The Seoul-based Data Base Centre for North Korean Human Rights has released a report, estimating that around 50,000 North Korean workers are currently employed in Russia.
The US State Department considers North Korea to be one of the worst countries worldwide for human trafficking and forced labour offenses.
The workers are often subject to harsh, degrading and sometimes life-threatening working conditions. Disturbingly, there have been reports of physical abuse, withholding of documents and a lack of safety measures.
Labourers stay together in claustrophobic dormitories and are strictly forbidden to speak to Russians or any other foreigners outside of working hours.
Sickeningly, most of their hard won earnings are confiscated by the government. 80% of forestry workers’ earnings and 30% of construction workers’ earnings are taken by the Workers’ Party of Korea to ‘facilitate the country’s defence’.
Extra money is taken to cover living expenses and workers are expected to contribute towards a ‘loyalty fund’, as well as other donations. It is estimated that North Korea rakes in at least $120 million a year through exploiting these labourers.
Both North Korea and Russia are benefitting from this exploitative employment structure. Exporting labour helps to bolster the isolated North Korean regime, which has been tightly squeezed by international sanctions.
‘Fast, cheap and reliable’ North Korean labourers are desirable to some Russian businesses because of their willingness to work long hours without complaint.
Tragically, there have even been fatal consequences…
North Korean labour was used to help build the Zenit Stadium in St Petersburg. It was here that a 47-year-old North Korean worker died on site from a heart attack.
He had been working 11 hour days, seven days a week, for $10-$15 a day. Fatigue is suspected to be a factor in his death.
Two North Korean workers who had been helping to build a luxury apartment complex in Moscow were found dead in a ‘decrepit’ hostel near to the building site.
Sadly, living conditions in repressive North Korea are so dire that workers are actually willing to pay bribes to get sent to work in Russia…
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