Monday 23 February 2015

North Korea has 100,000 labourers working abroad in a ‘state-sponsored slavery’ scheme

North Korea has 100,000 labourers working abroad in a ‘state-sponsored slavery’ scheme


When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable wage for most workers in his famine-stricken country, where most people are not allowed to travel abroad. But for Rim Il, the deal soured from the start: Under a moonlit night, the bus carrying him and a score of other fresh arrivals pulled into a desert camp cordoned off with barbed wire fences.

Read more: http://ift.tt/1AecA1D

No comments:

Post a Comment