Le Monde Diplomatique: North Korean Slaves

Author: Alain Devalpo
April 2006

North Korea, for all its nuclear ambitions, is close to economic disaster, and is short of food, fuel and the simplest material goods. To pay its debt to Russia (which Moscow will not cancel), it exports a migrant labour force to be cruelly exploited in Russia’s far eastern wild west.

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