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November 05, 2024
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N.Korean workers in Russia failing to pay debts due to extortion: report

Workers under increasingly heavy workload, trapped in debt, defector says

UPDATE : December 14, 2016, Personal information on an unnamed North Korean defector, who gave testimony at the seminar, has been removed at the request of Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB)

Many of the around 50,000 North Korean workers in Russia cannot pay growing debts due to extortion from Pyongyang and difficult working conditions, South Korea’s Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) said on Monday.

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