The researchers spoke with 21 North Korean men who have worked or are working at construction sites in three Russian cities. Under what they described as constant surveillance, they are forced to work as long as 16 hours a day with virtually no days off, earning as little as $10 a month in wages after deductions are made and often ending up in debt.
“We’re living lives worse than cattle,” the report quotes a 50-year-old worker as saying.
According to the report, North Korean workers often don’t even know whom they’re working for after they are hired by Russian companies in violation of U.N. sanctions. Their passports are immediately confiscated and held by North Korean security officials in Russia, the report said.
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