Posted on 08/04/2018 8:03:50 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
While Pyongyang is cut off from the international financial system, it is able to make up to $2.3 billion in hard currency a year by sending some 100,000 or more workers abroad, according to estimates. Up to 80 per cent of them go to China and Russia, where they are employed in what the UN has called “slave-like conditions” and give up to 90 per cent of their wages to Kim Jong-un's regime.
Contractors have said North Koreans helped build the World Cup stadium in St Petersburg, where at least one died on site.
Previously many of them worked in logging camps that were described as “open-air prisons” by one North Korean who escaped.
“It's not just slavery conditions, it's a slavery psychology and a slavery situation,” said activist Svetlana Gannushkina, who has helped several North Koreans in Russia seek asylum here or other countries. “The victims agree to his situation, because they are raised this way, and those who start to resist are incredibly strong.”
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So America can open the door to North Korean workers.
North Koreans have been sent to Russia as slave labor since Stalin’s time. It was Kim Il Sung’s payment to the USSR for their assistance in the Korean war.
I was deployed to Uzbekistan and encountered Korean-looking women descended from those slaves. They regarded themselves as Uzbek and spoke no Korean.
Like mojados, but lower maintenance and more productive.
Jack Hammer will hire a couple dozen North Korean workers. Female worker, single, between the ages of 18 and 25.
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