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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.
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Old news, this is probably one of the biggest source of income for the Kim dynasty. Vice did a documentary about a Siberian labour camp, I'll see if I can find it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQDLoOnkdI